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I know that this is the wrong thread for this but about 00:58 the Staffordshire Moorlands (or at least me) experianced a 'quake that whilst not a major one shook stuff of the walls and scarred the shit out of me. The whole ****ing house rumbled and shook for about 5 seconds. Thats the second quake in about 10 years in a country that is no where near a fault line. I need a valium. Right thats me done for the night. Just thought i'd let you know.
We felt it too just posted in a pm/email to harrison about it as i was just sending to him about something else!
nothing fell off our walls or owt but felt wierd!
(we are in morecambe / northwest btw)
breaking news bbc web site : http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7266136.stm
I slept through it :lol:
First thing I heard about this was when people were talking about it on the radio (when I was asleep - I seem to be able to pay attention to the radio whilst sleeping), then it was on the news at 7.
I was asleep when the earthquake happened.
I didnt notice it at all...
but then.... i am use to shaking the earth in my bed *snicker snicker*
what...... some one had to say it...... sheeesh.....
It would have been better if you'd been shaking the earth in your bed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zetr0
But it is true that i would have thought there would've been a few more earth moving for you puns.
Sadly we didn't experience it on the south coast. For some strange reason I've always wanted to experience a real earthquake/tremor.
I heard about it at about 1am when i got home from work this morning and switched on Sky News.
Heard about it while listening to 5live in the early hours but didn't experience anything here in south wales.
Felt it in the northwest, I was awake at the time.
Most disturbed to see my nice TFT wobbling, wasn't too concerned about anything else.
It's hard to read the screen when it's not keeping still.
It didn't wake my bird up, but went I crept into the room quietly, she woke up instantly to start winging about me not putting on my lamp too high. (Has 3 levels of strength).
Typical.
:no:
I would have liked to have been awake to see what wobbled and how much, but I wouldn't have liked to have been woken by it, that would probably have been scary. It happened only an hour or so after I got to sleep. Maybe I should have stayed up a bit longer.
Does anyone know why we had an earthquake, with us not being on a plate boundry?
Probably the beginning of the end!
secret underground nuclear experiments :)
either that, or its the mole men attacking again in the hidden war of the underworld....
OR
that curry i had the other night was a little more explosive than normal....
It's due to all the oil and gas thats been pumped out of the North sea and slowly all those holes are subsiding thus creating earth quakes. Either that or some fat bastard in Grimsby fell over.;)
I've long wondered about all the oil and gas we are pumping out of the ground. Surely it has to have some effect on the earth once it is all removed. I know they do replace the empty space with something else, but it's surely not the same.
For example, with the North Sea oil they pump sea water into the deposit space to fill it back up. This keeps the space filled, but is really done to force the oil to the top so it can be pumped out easier, not to replace and fill the huge gap left over from the removal of the oil.
Do the Earths plates interact with the natural oil deposits in some way? Do they float on them at all? If so then removing it is going to definitely have some adverse effect on the world.
If only we could stop all the fat bastards in the US driving to their mail boxes instead of walking, we wouldn't need all this oil!
POST boxes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Harrison
You tell him.;)Quote:
Originally Posted by TiredOfLifePOST boxes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Harrison
By the way my theory about the drilling of oil and gas etc was complete bollocks. I was making it all up. Sounded good though didn't it.
I was referring to the US so I am justified in using the term Mail Box! ;)
As for the pumping of oil. Regardless of that, surely removing so much from under the ground has to cause some adverse effect?
Probably not as theres a lot of caves in the world and all thats left are basically empty caves. And don't call me Shirley.
I'd have thought the size of an oil/gas pocket would be negligible compared to the size of tectonic plates and the world as a whole.
I missed the earth quake too.
But my wife felt it, it woke her up in fact (fnarr).
"Did the earth move you you too darling?"
"No! What the bloody hell were you up to while I was sleeping?!"
No mate your not, trust me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Harrison
There can never be any justification for using phrases like that.
Not even being American would justify it.:no: