Earthquake!

[۹βkaur۹β]

earthquake was AWFULLLLLLLLLLLLLLL omg sooooooo scary!!!!

happned at 1 am

and omg, everything was shaking!!!!!!

vaheguru, felt as if my loft fell!!!!!!!! LOL

[sherlsurj]

it hit derby hard lol!!i woke up at 1 coz my dog kept barking just as i got up to beat him up the whole house shook. though the windows were going to cave in!!!

[kh@ls@]

Everyone in our slept straight through it didn't even know anything about it until I got to college this morning lol.

[Techno_singh]

happed at 12:57 in coventry, was a pretty good shake, thought somebody was bull dozering our house down

Earthquake felt across much of UK The earthquake caused damage to homes in South Yorkshire The biggest earthquake in the UK for nearly 25 years has shaken homes across large parts of the country. People in Newcastle, Yorkshire, London, Cumbria, the Midlands, Norfolk and also parts of Wales, felt the tremor just before 0100 GMT.

A man suffered a broken pelvis when a chimney collapsed in South Yorkshire.

The British Geological Survey (BGS) said the epicentre of the 5.2 magnitude quake was near Market Rasen in Lincolnshire.

Student David Bates, 19, suffered a broken pelvis when he was pinned under masonry in his attic bedroom in Barnsley Road, Wombwell, South Yorks.

His father Paul Bates said: "There was a rumble and then we heard a bang and my son screaming 'Dad'."

I woke up and the first thing I thought was that there were a load of burglars in the house

Jamil Ali

Sheffield

Student injured in collapse

His son was taken to hospital and was due to undergo surgery later.

Bev Finnegan, who lives in Market Rasen, Lincolnshire, said: "I was terrified to be honest. The noise was really, really terrifying... it was so deep and rumbling.

"It felt like the roof was going to fall in. There were people coming out in their dressing gowns wondering what it was. It was quite an experience."

A Lincolnshire police spokeswoman said the force had received dozens of calls from residents but there were no reports of anyone in the county being injured.

Moment quake hit

"There is slight structural damage, cracks and a couple of chimneys damaged. There's nothing serious at present," she said.

"Mostly people were distressed by it so there were a large quantity of calls coming in."

Speaking from Gainsborough, Mike Thomas, chief fire officer for Lincolnshire, said crews had been called out to 50 incidents and one fire as a result of the quake.

And Justin Cowell, in Gainsborough, told BBC News that it "started as a massive shake".

"People had come out into the street. It seemed the whole town had woken up."

Tom Edwards, from Heckington, Lincolnshire, said he heard a noise like "an underground train and an enormous roar".

"I thought I was probably going to get killed."

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The bed suddenly dropped away from me and then came back up.

Bert Hobby, Bedfordshire Send us your comments Dr Brian Baptie, of the BGS, said: "An earthquake of this size, of magnitude five or thereabouts, will occur roughly every 10 to 20 years in the UK.

"So we can get these kind of moderate to significant earthquakes of this size but they're relatively rare."

The BGS recorded an aftershock with a magnitude of 1.8 at about 0400 GMT.

The main 10-second quake, which struck at 0056 GMT at a depth of 15.4km (9.6 miles), was the biggest recorded example since one with a magnitude of 5.4 struck north Wales in 1984.

Thousands of people from across England contacted the BBC to described how their homes shook during the tremor.

How earthquakes happen

Jemma Harrison, 22, in Bury, Greater Manchester, said: "It was really bad. I was fast asleep and woke up and the room was shaking and there was a loud bang and alarms were going off."

Natasha Cavey, in Tipton in the West Midlands, said: "All my cupboard doors flew open and the whole house shook, it was unreal. I can't believe it."

David in Alrewas in Staffordshire said: "The birds were flying around like it was daylight.

"It was quite severe. I experienced the Dudley one and this was more severe.

"I went outside to see if the roof had collapsed. I could see the furniture in the room moving, it was like it was on a jelly mould."

PREVIOUS QUAKES IN THE UK April 2007 - Folkestone, Kent (magnitude 4.3) December 2006 - Dumfries and Galloway (3.5) September 2002 - Dudley, West Midlands (5.0) October 2001 - Melton Mowbray (4.1) September 2000 - Warwick (4.2) April 1990 - Bishop's Castle, Shropshire (5.1) July 1984 - Nefyn, north Wales (5.4) June 1931 - in North Sea near Great Yarmouth (6.1)

Q&A: UK's small tremors

Dr Baptie said: "The largest earthquake that we know about that has struck the UK was about 100km off the east coast of England on the Dogger Bank and it had a magnitude of 6.1.

David Somerset, 41, from Driffield near Beverley in East Yorkshire, said: "I have never felt one as strong as that one before. I was in my sitting room and the grandfather clock was rattling rather violently.

Philip Norton, a BBC reporter for Look North in Hull, said: "Everything started wobbling.

"The windows were rattling and the blinds were visibly moving. It sounded like the roof was coming in."

BBC reporter Lynn Crombie in Norwich said she was "absolutely terrified" and thought somebody "had driven into the side of the house".

"Then I thought somebody must have kicked the door in and everything continued to rattle inside the house," she said.

Jamil Ali in Sheffield said: "I woke up and the first thing I thought was that there were a load of burglars in the house.

"The kids were screaming and so was my wife. It was that violent you actually moved yourself."

The West Midlands was hit by an earthquake in 2002 in the Dudley area that reached a magnitude of 5.0 and one measuring 4.3 hit Folkestone in Kent last year.

[Azaad]

I hope you guys are alright.

aaw...I'm fine thanks lol

I didnt notice a thing...had the best sleep in years..only knew there had been a earthquake when people started talking about it at college!!!

[~*~Warrior Princess*~*]

hope evry ones ok down there,,,,lol use should move up to scotland its much much much safer!!!!

[singh_comradz]

thought it was a dream but when i checked the headlines it was like <admin-profanity filter activated>

[Prabhleen Kaur]

i finished ma crswk at 12.30 so was doing my sohila .....and when i lied down...i felt the shakes...n i thort that its probably m tired...but thn whn it continued....a random thought ran into my mind...tht the ghosts are trynna do summat with mah bed coz it was shaking lyk mad...so i just hid in the quilt n couldnt go bak to sleep for anova house...but wheni woke up in the moring, i realised wt random things i wa doing at nite....

[s_kaur!]

lol everyone else in the house felt it.. and i just slept through it hmm

[Punjabi_Link]

I hope you guys are alright.

aaw...I'm fine thanks lol

I didnt notice a thing...had the best sleep in years..only knew there had been a earthquake when people started talking about it at college!!!

That's good to hear, bro.

Anyway, so this earthquake wasn't serious at all. No one died from this earthquake, right?