All shook up

[4getmenot]

Well I thought I'd be first to add post, I cant believe we had an earthquake and not one mention in news yet just chatterbank???? Do you think this has anything to do with global warming?

[redcrx]

doubt it, it was freezing last night sis :)

it was a good one, wasnt it, it woke me up and few things manage to do that!

[unrulyjulie]

why have lots of smaller tremors per year apparently. I dont think it has anything to do with global warming. Thats why when we get an exceptionally an hot day or floods it will say "blah blah, hottest day in 100 years, coldest day in 53 years or worst flooding since 1927 for example, so to me, that says that this sort of thing has always happened way before global warming was even thought about. Just one of them freaky things that come around every so often. I just read that was the strongest quake in 25 years.

[4getmenot]

I have to agree julie we had hotter days in the 80's every year they say its gonna be a heatwave, where was summer last year?

[unrulyjulie]

everything that ever happens is put down to global warming and yet this sort of thing has happened since time began.

[DSJ]

It was pretty big here in Lincolnshire but nothing to do with global warming. Just something that can happen anywhere in the world from time to time.

[4getmenot]

It was scary in Norfolk so god know what it was like at epicentre

[China Doll]

I'm pretty sure global warming is a misleading term. It means the temperature of the earth rising causing a change in seasons and messes about with temperature in genera (mild winters for example)l as opposed to just causing countries to having more heat waves I think.

At least that's been my understanding from reading some of the posts in Science on the subject but I suspect there's several in there who could give a much better answer.

[LoftyLottie]

Hi 4getmenot. This is the chatterbank posting in case people want to refer to it. Hope you don't mind me adding it to your thread.

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/ChatterBank/Que stion528083.html#top

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[LoftyLottie]

There have always been earthquakes in this country . Personally, I think Global Warming is blamed for everything these days.

Now off to Science to see what the boffins have to say about it! I'm not bright enough to visit Science very often!!

[4getmenot]

I know where is is loftie I have answered in it, It just amazed me nothing was in news

[LoftyLottie]

I realised that 4getmenot. I just thought others might not be able to refer to the chatterbank one and might want to have a look.

Reasonable Chatterbank postings tend to disappear under piles of garbage very quickly!!

[4getmenot]

I know what you mean :-)

[Robinia]

It was bad here in Derby - scared the life out of me! I was asleep & was aware of a noise & thought my dog had come up & was running around & then I realised he's a 17lb spaniel not a ten ton mastiff, lol....then everything shook & rattled & I froze in panic, I've never felt a quake that strong in my lifetime! A neighbour rang to see if I was ok....I think she was terrified & wanted someone to talk to.

I think Earthquakes are caused by faults in the earth's core moving...I'll follow LoftiLottie & see if I can find out.

[Hugh Spencer]

Nothing felt or heard down here on the South Coast.

[smudge]

Late last night, I was sitting on the sofa quietly watching cable tv & heard a very unusual loud 'creaking' of the floorboards upstairs. The cat was fast asleep on my lap, but suddenly jumped up & ran off. I went upstairs to see if my husband was okay, but he was fast asleep.

I wondered at the time, if there was something eerie, or untoward going on, only to find this thread!

So, thanks 4getmenot - I wasn't imagining things!

(South Bedfordshire).

[smudge]

Just spoken to a friend who works for the local police. She told me that she & some of her colleagues felt an earth tremor at approx 01:00am this morning too!

At least we know they don't fall asleep on the job!

[4getmenot]

probably woke them up smudge :-)

[smudge]

Ha, ha, I did wonder 4get! ;o}

[LoftyLottie]

LOL 4getmenot

Well our police only work between 9.00 and 4.00 on a good day and then shut up shop!