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Wed Feb 27, 2008 11:43 am
Matt Bellamy says...



Well, that was rather exciting. I thought my Xbox controller was making my bed vibrate. :roll: Parents were completely oblivious though :lol: Who else felt it?

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Wed Feb 27, 2008 11:51 am
Sureal says...



Didn't feel anything. :( I think I may be too far south.
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Wed Feb 27, 2008 12:30 pm
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My sister is at boarding school in Market Rasen where the epicentre was, and when I heard about it on the news this morning I texted her to ask her what it was like, and she'd slept right through it! :roll: :lol:
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Wed Feb 27, 2008 4:18 pm
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I happened just as I'd logged off YWS for the night and gone to bed. Wasn't half terrifying -- my bed's pretty rickety anyway and it was shaking all over the place.

I was holding down all the huge piles of books on top of my bookshelf; saving them comes before self-preservation.

My Dad was the only other one who felt it, he was awake because he was too hot.

Both of my sisters, and most of my friends, slept through it.
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Wed Feb 27, 2008 5:01 pm
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I slept through it lol.

Why do they always happen at night?!
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Wed Feb 27, 2008 5:04 pm
Alainna says...



I slept through it as well. Then again, I also slept through my fire alarm...

No - one I know felt it so maybe it didn't affect us round here. I heard that it was felt from London to Newcastle.


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Wed Feb 27, 2008 5:20 pm
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And Wales, to Aberdeen apparently.

I'm in Birmingham and my friend woke up in it, but I have never been in an earthquake...
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Wed Feb 27, 2008 5:39 pm
Blue Fairy says...



I was just about to go to sleep when it happen.
It really scared me but quite alot of people slept through it.


The epicentre was in lincolnshire wasn't it?
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Wed Feb 27, 2008 6:19 pm
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I didn't feel a thing, and I'm pretty sure I was awake at the time. Probably too far west, even if they do say Wales felt it. They always like to over-dramatise things. I reckon all those people who called in to say 'the doors rattled and I couldn't get back to sleep' from South Wales are liars.
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Wed Feb 27, 2008 6:30 pm
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Cpt. Smurf wrote:I didn't feel a thing, and I'm pretty sure I was awake at the time. Probably too far west, even if they do say Wales felt it. They always like to over-dramatise things. I reckon all those people who called in to say 'the doors rattled and I couldn't get back to sleep' from South Wales are liars.


Hehe...I have to say, they probably are. It mostly affected England, so if anyone over in Wales felt it they probably would have felt a tiny shudder. That made me laugh.

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Wed Feb 27, 2008 6:41 pm
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I reckon all those people who called in to say 'the doors rattled and I couldn't get back to sleep' from South Wales are liars.


lol XD


I don't think it reached Newcastle. I have friends in Redcar who came to college and were shocked to hear there was an earthquake, they hadn't felt anything at all. Not even the animals seemed to be bothered. Our bird didn't half go hay-wire.
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Wed Feb 27, 2008 7:00 pm
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Apparently people from the Isle of Wight have said they felt it now. Amazing how the impact of it seems to spread over the course of the day. They'll be calling in from the Shetland Isles next.
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Wed Feb 27, 2008 7:09 pm
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I was in the "Epicentre" I believe, as it was in North Lincolnshire.

Oh my gosh... I was actually really scared, so I thought that I dreamt it. I know I sound like I'm over re-acting, but I never thought that would really happen in England. How dissoloutioned am I? I woke up and everything in my room was shaking like crazy... But then in the morning, my Mum was like; "I didn't feel it."

I was like :O
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Wed Feb 27, 2008 7:11 pm
tinny says...



A lot of people I talked to thought they were dreaming, so it doesn;t sound like your overreacting to me, Lizzy.


Lol, just read the local paper. Apparently lots of people here rang up the police to see if ICI had exploded XD
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Wed Feb 27, 2008 7:14 pm
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Oh my gosh

xD

Seriously, I get freaked out when we get flooded, but now we're getting stuff like mini tornadoes and earthquakes! It's actually quite a scary thought.
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