I now feel a bond with the people across the pond!

[mrv3000]

Awwww! The UK just had a 4.7 earthquake! BLESS!

4.7: "Do I get out of bed? Do I? Eeeerrrrn. No."

Seriously though, glad it wasn't bad.

Comments

[fauxkaren.livejournal.com]

hahaha. I totally agree. The only earthquake in my memory that scared me was the Northridge Earthquake which was around... 6.0 on the Richtor scale. Also, I was 6 years old. Ah earthquakes. Such is the price for beautiful southern California weather.

[fauxkaren.livejournal.com]

Wikipedia informs me that the Northridge Earthquake was actually 6.7.

And my family's house is like... 10-ish miles from the epicenter. Good times.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

We felt that earthquake down here it was that huge. That was a bad one.

[cookie2697.livejournal.com]

Huh. That's so...unusual. Seriously. Strange. But interesting. I'd be curious to hear comments from people who felt it. They were probably...panicking. But you're right, 4.7 wouldn't even get me out of bed. LOL. It would make me go, "Ack! earthquake!" And then I'd roll over and go back to sleep. That is...assuming it would even wake me up.

[jo-siris.livejournal.com]

I felt it, my bed shook, was really odd.

[fauxkaren.livejournal.com]

Growing up, whenever there was an earthquake at night, my dad would usually wake up (what can I say, he's British) and sometimes I would too. My mom and sister usually slept through them. But my dad and I would go out and check the CalTech website to see how big it was. And then I'd go back to sleep.

Although now, in my dorm room, I'm a bit more freaked about earthquakes because I live on the third floor and I have the top bunk. So if "The Big One" happens, I'm convinced that I'll fall like three stories or something.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

I've never heard of an earthquake happening over there before. I mean, I'm sure it's happened, but it's gotta be super rare.

[jo-siris.livejournal.com]

Thats why my bed shook, scared the crap out of me.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Those middle of the night ones can really get the blood going. You wake from a dead sleep to "WHAT WHAT?"

[gemstar69.livejournal.com]

It's pretty epic for England :O

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

I'd say! I've never heard of one there before.

HEY!

[04nbod.livejournal.com]

i was freaked out!

Re: HEY!

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

I don't blame you! Even though I'm fairly used to them, they still unnerve me a bit. Especially when it's in the middle of the night.

[starlightmoonla.livejournal.com]

4.7: "Do I get out of bed? Do I? Eeeerrrrn. No."

Isn't that the truth. Seriously unless it's a 5.5 or greater, and by now most of us in CA can probably tell without having to look it up or wait for the news, I sort of just stay put and wait for it to go away.

Thanks to the Northridge earthquake, which is the only big one I remember, I've learned where to arrange all of my stuff in case of another earthquake.

Seriously though, glad it wasn't bad.

Most definitely.

[fauxkaren.livejournal.com]

I was like... 5 or 6... for the Northridge Earthquake and for a long time afterwards, I was scared that my ceiling lamp would fall on me in an earthquake and like break my legs or something. haha. Which is dumb. Because my ceiling lamp really wasn't all that large.

[jakeish.livejournal.com]

My first and only earthquake was a 4.5! It was so weird. Not scary, but... weird. I mean, it was Northern Virginia. What the hell.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

That's pretty unusual. Weird!

[allisnow.livejournal.com]

4.7? That shouldn't even count as an earthquake.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Call it a Shaker maybe? :D

[larissa-j.livejournal.com]

4.7 is a tickle to be sure but for them it's scary.


I remember living in California and waking up to earthquakes. So.Much.Fun. It's not the earthquake that's annoying but the stuff falling off your shelves.

Wonder if their pets all freaked and they were like "WTF is Fluffy being strange?"

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Well, especially scary when probably most got woken up from it. Talk about disorientating. Usually takes me a few seconds to figure out what's going on.

I haven't had anything fall off shelves in a while. Well, really not since my family moved from LA to San Diego. Not as many big earthquakes down here.

[grav-ity.livejournal.com]

I have only ever experienced one earthquake. Of course, I am from ONTARIO, so this is normal. But once when I was in Ottawa, there was one. Silly us...building our capital on an active fault!

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

HA! I didn't know it was built on a fault. Whoops! Well, at least it still probably won't break off and fall into the ocean...

[grbggrl.livejournal.com]

4.7: "Do I get out of bed? Do I? Eeeerrrrn. No."

It really is one of those "Oh, Earthquake. Huh ::promptly turns over to fall asleep again::" moments isn't it?

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Totally.

"ZZZZZSNORT WHAT WHAT? Oh. *pulls covers over head* You can stop shaking now, please. Thank you."

[okelay.livejournal.com]

Here earthquakes are quite common. and my hometown has the dubious honour of the worst one EVER.

poor british people. there was a wonderful post on metaquotes about it.
how it endangered knick knacks and table cloths or soemthing.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Here earthquakes are quite common. and my hometown has the dubious honour of the worst one EVER.

Oh, joy!

poor british people. there was a wonderful post on metaquotes about it.
how it endangered knick knacks and table cloths or soemthing.

Heh heh heh.

You know, I don't put things certain places or hang really heavy things since "it could fall" is always in the back of my mind.

[brilliantomega.livejournal.com]

You notice that everyone else seems to be having earthquakes the last couple months except us? I'm starting to think maybe the earthquakes are avoiding SoCal... XD

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

I always get a bit twitchy when we don't get them for a while for fear it's building up to a big one.

[jcd1013.livejournal.com]

There was apparently a 5.3 earthquake in North Wales in 1984. SO they do get earthquakes there not too rarely... Hmm, I wonder why?

Never experienced an earthquake that I can recall. I'd freak out at a 3.2 I think.

[kynaii.livejournal.com]

The scary thing about an earthquake over there are all of those extrememly old buildings built pre-earthquake code.

[selenityshiroi.livejournal.com]

Did we?

Um...okay.

'OH NOES!!! IT WAS SCARY!!! SO SCARY I DIDN'T EVEN NOTICE!!!'

*looks at report*

OOOHHH. It was at the other end of the country. Understood. I'll stop the confused sarcasm now! XD

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

*pats you*

[loriel-eris.livejournal.com]

Pretty much the other side of the country from me, so I hadn't a clue I saw your post.

The BBC asserts that it was 5.3 if that makes us an less wimpy. ;) And apparently we get reasonably big-for-us earthquakes every few years (towards the bottom of the BBC article). I couldn't have told you how often, but I knew that we did/do get earthquakes more often than our position of the plates would lead you to believe...

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Actually, 5.3 does make it a bit less wimpy. :D I sort of have this mental scale - anything under 5 is weak, a 5-something is a good-sized quake, and 6 or higher is getting into EEEK.

[makesometime.livejournal.com]

I slept through it -.-

I always sleep through the cool things the UK rarely gets like earthquakes and oil depot explosions :(

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Awwwww. Poor thing.

[nandamai]

They get 2s and 3s pretty regularly, ISTR. Occasionally a 4 or so. But it's not often enough to get used to it. *pets poor Brits*

I'm pretty sure I'd still sleep through a 4.7, even this long away from CA. It's a gift. Unless, of course, my house collapsed, which, given the way it shudders under a 30+mph wind, would not surprise me. Then M.'s couch would fall right on my head and I'd be a goner.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

It's about 50-50 if I wake up at that size. And kinda depends if it's a jerking quake or a rolling quake.

*hopes your house does NOT collapse*

[shinyopals.livejournal.com]

I am in the Midlands and close enough that I should have felt something (as in, everyone in my office was commenting in the morning) and I did not wake up. Which, given that I'd been in my bed for less than half an hour, says something about my sleeping...

Do I get an honorary US citizenship now? :-P

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Better yet, you're an honorary Californian! :D

[greenpear.livejournal.com]

You don't fol me. The bond with the people across the pond comes from the Doctor and Jack...

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

But now we'll have something else to talk about! ;)