Earthquake In Hartlepool!!!!

MutleyRules · **Posted:** Wed Feb 27, 2008 2:09 am

I've just been layed in Bed reading Letters on Ceefax and the whole house shook....it was an Earthquake!!!! :shock:

I texted my mate who lives over the road and asked him if his house shook and he phoned and said....

'Thank feck you phoned....me and our lass shit ourselves'!!!! :shock:

MutleyRules · **Posted:** Wed Feb 27, 2008 2:10 am

Very very weird feeling!!!! :shock:

Mr Irrelevant · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:25 pm **Posts:** 22638

Not just up there, I'm in Buckinghamshire and I felt it.

mikey66 · **Posted:** Wed Feb 27, 2008 2:23 am

Hello boys and girls, hope you are all well.

Thought I'd check in and report that we had it in the Midlands too (and it frightened the life out of me :uhoh:

)

Mr Irrelevant · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:25 pm **Posts:** 22638

That'll be another tenner's worth of damage in Dudley then :grin:

mikey66 · **Posted:** Wed Feb 27, 2008 2:46 am

Mr I wrote:

That'll be another tenner's worth of damage in Dudley then :grin:

News has it that the town centre has been totally demolished. Early estimates have said that the damage has caused millions of pounds worth of improvements :grin:

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 37173

MutleyRules wrote:

Very very weird feeling!!!! :shock:

SO..... the earth moved for you..... :laugh:

.......

MutleyRules · **Posted:** Wed Feb 27, 2008 8:35 am

What's the betting it'll be put down to Global Warming/Climate Change eh!?!? :roll:

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 37173

I don't belive it, they've just mentioned it on the telly and asked that very question. :roll:

townendtimmy · **Posted:** Wed Feb 27, 2008 9:37 am

Only thing i heard during the night was baby crying :grin:

. I can confirm there was no shaking or movements in Trimdon.

bresslaw · **Joined:** Sat Aug 19, 2006 10:45 am **Posts:** 2411

I was reading at 1 this morning, I felt the whole house shake for a couple of seconds, then spent the next hour lying there listening to the radio reporting the end of the world..............very wierd

Warwick Hunt · **Posted:** Wed Feb 27, 2008 10:34 am

I slept through it.

Mick Tait's Head Bandage · **Posted:** Wed Feb 27, 2008 11:00 am

Certainly felt it here in Seaton....at first i put it down to me having drank a bottle and a half of red wine!

garthwd · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 8:23 am **Posts:** 792

Second time in a few days the earth moved in my bedroom here in Leeds :grin:

Poolie of Kent · **Posted:** Wed Feb 27, 2008 11:54 am

Saw Gainsborough on the TV...another earthquake after the 6-0 earthquake we had there earlier ! :grin:

Montpoolier · **Posted:** Wed Feb 27, 2008 12:17 pm

I felt it all right - the frigging epicentre was only 25 miles from here! I blamed the beer till I read it in the news!! :shock:

townendtimmy · **Posted:** Wed Feb 27, 2008 12:53 pm

garthwd wrote:

Second time in a few days the earth moved in my bedroom here in Leeds :grin:

Have you had a birthday recently :shock:

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 37173

nah, he has a small rockery in his bedroom and can't decide where to put it. :laugh:

PJ_Poolie · **Posted:** Wed Feb 27, 2008 4:52 pm

It woke me up the bastad.

Weird feeling though, I put it down to a dodgy dream until I heard the news this morning :laugh:

MutleyRules · **Posted:** Wed Feb 27, 2008 5:34 pm

I've been reading some of the posts on the BBC's 'Have Your Say' page....there's some beauties....

I was woken by the whole house shaking. It also woke my husband who can usually sleep "through an earthquake"
Victoria, Glossop

:laugh:

I woke up and heard a noise that sounded like really bad wind and then i felt my bed moving under me and a loud rumbling.
i was so scared !

Sophie, Leeds

:laugh:

Nope. As a typical middle class couple, my partner and I had consumed vast amounts of alcohol yesterday evening (as we do every evening) and were far too drunk for a mere earthquake to wake us up.

Anon

:laugh:

I did feel it. Being at 1 in the morning, I was quite tired and given that my house is in the flight path of East Midlands Airport, my first reaction was that a plane had gone down. The second one was that maybe a lorry had crashed into or near my house. When it was 'only' an earthquake I was quite disappointed.

Sam Chew, Loughborough

:laugh:

The quake didn't disturb me but I was woken up 5 mins later by a text asking if I'd felt it ! Doh !

Paul White

:laugh:

My whole house fell down around me and then the gas pipes exploded. It was the most frightening thing that has ever happened to me. I won't sleep tonight. I blame global warming.

Andrew White, Koln, Germany

:laugh:

The quake was so bad in my nan's house that the mirror hanging above the fireplace fell off the wall straight onto her cat Tyson and broke his leg!

Richard James, Hull

:laugh:

i was on the phone to my girlfriend at the time, and i heard a loud noise. i never thought it was an earthquake, i just thought my mum had fallen out of the bed

Aaron Negus, Sheerness

:laugh:

When will Britian wake up and realise what I have known for many years? This nation is sinking under the weight of an unsustainable population.

Scientist know this, but have been hushed up by Gordon Clown and his Trotskist cabinet. We are reaping the rewards of being the world's lifeboat for illegals and 'asylum seekers' and now we are sunk. I wonder if people will be so liberal when beloved treasures like Brighton dissapear under the waves?

This quake was a warning not to be ignored.

[UnionJackSparrow], London, United Kingdom

:laugh:

My husband and I were woken up by a huge shake and I thought he was shaking the bed!!! Soon I realised it was earthquake and was surprised and also terrified as I just couldn't get ready for it! Maybe we shall have some practice for such things in order to keep us all safe? I was so scared as if it really make a damage, my 3 month old baby boy might get hurt as I was so not experienced and terrified that I even didn't think to pick him up...So lucky it was just a shake.

Ariel, Milton Keynes

have not been in the vicinity of a quake measuring either 6 or 7 on the richter scale, and was not in the vicinity of this 5.2 quake. In fact I felt absolutely nothing. This, however, won't stop me from trying to find some tenuous link to the natural phenomenon we call "climate change" and pointing the finger at the 4x4 driver who lives 3 doors away. It's all his fault anyway and I urge you all to picket his house and weigh his rubbish in case he causes another quake.

Iain Mair, Stirling

:laugh:

Some brilliant ones there....and still another 40 pages to read!!!! :shock:

http://newsforums.bbc.co.uk/nol/thread.jspa?sortBy=1&forumID=4364&start=585&tstart=0&edition=1&ttl=20080227162033#paginator

MutleyRules · **Posted:** Wed Feb 27, 2008 5:37 pm

We always get tremors in East Anglia like this but last nights was bad. So bad that it got me into trouble as I was sitting up drinking another bottle of plonk than the one I was drinking when she went to bed. Well as I sneaked into bed rather tipsy at about 00:40 the house shook, she woke up, I slurred something earthquakish and today I am not being spoken to. Thanks for nothing you Judas seismic wave causing tectonic earthquake grasses.

[SIMON6467], Peterborough, United Kingdom

:laugh:

MutleyRules · **Posted:** Wed Feb 27, 2008 5:44 pm

My husband and I feel nature has turned against us! Three or four weeks ago our fence was blown over in heavy winds, and last night we lost some roof tiles in the quake! Seems like nature is demolishing our house piece by piece!

Maggie, Thurnscoe, Rotherham.

:laugh:

I won't be leaning on the back legs of my chair again in a hurry.

Lee Dickenson, Manchester/Telford, United Kingdom

:laugh:

MutleyRules · **Posted:** Wed Feb 27, 2008 5:46 pm

"They say animals can sense a 'quake coming - well, my dog Nipper woke me up with a cup of tea shortly beforehand, told me it was coming and not to worry. They say that they're intelligent but he forgot that I don't take sugar! Perhaps it was for the shock.

Michael Winston "

That's nothing! My cat Fluffy set up an early warning website and predicted this three months ago. He's got bored of predicting earthquakes now and is now making a fortune as a long range weather forecaster.

Rufus McDufus, Twickenham, United Kingdom

:laugh:

MutleyRules · **Posted:** Wed Feb 27, 2008 5:48 pm

I heard a load rumbling noise early on in the morning and thought it must be an earthquake - but it was just chavs smashing my car up.

Eric, Dorset

:laugh:

MutleyRules · **Posted:** Wed Feb 27, 2008 5:54 pm

Never mind that there are usually thousands dead and injured when one of these things hits Asia, when we went downstairs this morning, one of my wellies had fallen over!

Jupiter Mars, My Planet

rolfl

MutleyRules · **Posted:** Wed Feb 27, 2008 6:02 pm

My shower gel fell over, i was livid!

Dan Betts, Sheffield

:laugh:

I was so scared I wet the bed

P. Streak, London

:laugh:

Gibsons Beard · **Posted:** Wed Feb 27, 2008 6:47 pm

I just thought that Dibble had fallen out of bed or something

Jonny · **Posted:** Wed Feb 27, 2008 7:22 pm

i actually quite enjoyed the unpredictability of it all - i was watching Shameless on E4 + 1 after enjoying a few vodka and fresh oranges and it got rather intense after about 5 seconds and then stopped.

i hope there is another one tonight..... rolfl

Kevin Dixon · **Joined:** Mon Jan 07, 2008 1:04 am **Posts:** 1432

I always make the earth move in the bedroom,said to our lass did you feel that ,she replied 'I have never felt nowt for 20 years' cheeky bast@rd. :shock:

Mute Witness · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 10:10 am **Posts:** 3572

I had it here in Leeds and I thought it was a poltergeist.

threepintwonder · **Posted:** Wed Feb 27, 2008 10:09 pm

our lass thought we had a visit off some disgruntled spirit,i said everyone else on the news was calling the police to find out what had caused it,she would have called ghostbusters :laugh:

MutleyRules · **Posted:** Thu Feb 28, 2008 12:02 am

I actually thought someone was on our baywindow....but then I had second thoughts when the bed started shaking!!!! confised

parmopooly · **Posted:** Thu Feb 28, 2008 10:10 am

that was the Bogey Man hiding underneath the bed Mutts.

P.M.T. · **Joined:** Mon Jul 02, 2007 2:14 pm **Posts:** 968

Danny Wilson is blaming the Quake for Budtz's howler saying " he is so sensitive he felt it coming "

rolfl

poolieinnottingham · **Posted:** Thu Feb 28, 2008 9:21 pm

Aye, but he never seems to SEE them coming!

Matty_Robson's_Chin · **Joined:** Tue Mar 13, 2007 12:57 pm **Posts:** 2155

I fully papped my pants, Hull just rocked my poor bed and wardrobe were going crazy!!!

The ducks didnt know what had hit then, they were going - mind the pun - quackers! very surreal

Earthquake In Hartlepool!!!!

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