our entire house has just jiggled from side to side..........................about 1am

a little disconcerting in all honesty. is it just a huddersfield thing or did anyone else feel it? has syngenta just blown up?

eek. makes me wish i hadn't stayed awake reading that migweb thread
tom

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Yep, same here. Just woke us and our neighbours up in Nottingham. Not the nicest thing to be woken up by

BBC news reporting it all over England

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yes here too thought it was just me, weird.

I felt it too!
I am greek so familiar with earthquakes and I dont thing that this was one.
Something must happend around huddersfield area

yes here in york to thought i was loosing my marbles holy crap

considerable shaking here in Chester too. Spoken to people in Harrogate who felt it - thats over 100 miles from me!!! British Geological Survey website has crashed

I just read that other people felt it elsewhere.
I though that is almost impossible to get earthquakes in Britain

leeds too. felt big

id guess 4 on t'old richter scale, assuming it was local.

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Me too - woke me up 12.58 it stopped just as I was regaining consciousness

So glad to see this and it wasn't just me going mad

thats N Yorks here and i just spoke to someone in Milton Keynes who felt it!! We get loads of earth tremors in this country - just most are too small to feel. The news is gonna be full of this one shortly as possibly one of the biggest in a while!!

Well the mrs cant say the earth didnt move for her now lol

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7266136.stm

Hey up 4.7 thats not nice exspect aftershocks Mrs sat on loo here in Lincoln at the time

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4.7 with the epicentre 30 miles south of Kingston upon Hull apparently. Now i am about 130 miles away and knew instantly what it was so pretty big

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its all on sky news aparently epicenter is 15 miles from lincon

Thought I was imagining things, quite a shake here in Sheffield.

Sky news centre of quake 15 mile from Lincoln dont know wich direction.

15 miles north east of lincoln,say sky news,felt strong here in worksop,scared the sh*t out of me

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4.7 its not that big and it didn't last long thankfully!

http://www.earthquakes.bgs.ac.uk/helicorder/heli.html

I thought it would be local and was going to post on here when t'film finished, but I see I didn't have too!!!!

That's the first earthquake I've ever felt!

Steve

never felt a thing

haha my dad just told me and i slpet through it ahh well

lost a coupleof pictures of the wall here in Hull, strange thing is theearthquake didn;t wake me up, the wife and kids screaming did!

Ray

Me too, mad or what.

woke me in ripon n.yorks wasnt sure if i was dreaming though-but the bedside lamp kept on rocking wow!!!

Woke me up this morning. Thought maybe I was going mad, then promptly went back to sleep!

Dont know where people are getting 4.7 from? It says 5.3 on the BBC site and on the news this morning

David

It woke me up in North London so it must have been loud in Lincolnshire!

Stu

I thought it was freight train going past the back door

It knocked the kids toys over.

well I was asleep when it started.

it woke me up, but I put it down to the dog scratching his leg while leaning against the wall (he is a great dane!!). then my mum text me to say they had a quake, which made a lot more sense!

then I struggled to get to sleep, but had drifted off only to be woken by an aftershock at about 3.30am. did anyone else feel this one, or was it actually the dog this time!!

martin

We lost a few pieces of Wedgewood china and a few pictures here in Whitby!!!
I was busy cleaning-up when I should have been bidding for something good on Ebay. Which I missed and it went for a few quid. Everyone else must have been clearing-up too!!
I didn't realise it was an earthquake until the news told me this morning!

huh not even a wobble up here

there is quite a lot of quakes on the westcost of Scotland, 5.3 magnitude is quite big, might be the precursor to a new volcano

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I was asleep... Heard nothing in uttoxeter.

so i wasn't going crazy. that's nice to know!

it wasn't too violent in huddersfield. more of a steady forceful oscillation. made my bed feel like a water bed and my fridge kept rocking for a while.

i can't decide whether i want it to happen again or not. obviously not if it's going to cause damage, but it was an experience
tom

slept through the whole lot, first i heard is when i got into work and someone i work with asked me if i felt it.

Yep woke me up! My wife thought I had lost it when I told her until she looked at the news in the morning!

Dan

i live 30 miles from lincoln where it started and i didnt feel a thing, was sat watching tv as well.....

strange mind i do live on mash land so maybe it dosnt travel well on soft ground.

i feel left out.

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i live 30 miles from lincoln where it started and i didnt feel a thing, was sat watching tv as well.....

strange mind i do live on mash land so maybe it dosnt travel well on soft ground.

i feel left out.

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I thought it was freight train going past the back door

It knocked the kids toys over.

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I live on the lincs/leics border. Dad said the cupboards were shaking, car alarms going off etc. I slept through it

I live in Grimsby, so not very far from the epicentre of the quake (market rasen). The shaking woke me up, but i was still in a sleepy state. SWMBO asked me if i could feel the house shaking, which i could... but then for the rest of the night i was laid there thinking did the house start shaking, or am i just going crazy

I know that the RAF test jets over lincolnshire as it is a large flat area, and they fly low over there. several years ago i lived a little further south in lincolnshire near Brigg, and there was a similar house shaking experience late in the night... that ended up being a sonic boom from a low flying aircraft

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I just read that other people felt it elsewhere.
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rattled my fillings

I'm 5 miles from the epicentre, and woke up in mid air! Though the whole roof had fallen off/chimney collapsed/chinook crashed in the garden or something. Very load and lots of movement fro about 10 seconds, but strangely no damage at all.

By 'eck it's grim oop north. Slept like a baby last night down here in Devon.

Slept through it in Newcastle, only found out when I got to work, but then I sleep through pretty much anything - it's a gift

not if your house was falling down

I`m in South Leicester and was in my lounge just before 1am. I heard a grumble followed by the whole house shaking for a few seconds. The shaking stopped and the grumbling continued for a couple more seconds and then stopped. My daughter woke up crying because her bed was moving and the Mrs woke up due to objects on dressing table clanking. First one I have ever felt and it worried me. I live near a quarry that blasts daily and so we get a daily faint rumble from the blasts. Last nights rumble was worrying! I knew it was gonna be all over the news.
Nick

It woke me, the missus and youngest daughter up. The noise and the shaking was amazing. Knew instantly it must be an earthquake. Mother Nature............... RESPECT.

Phil

just to cheer you all up...or not

http://www.quakes.bgs.ac.uk/hazard/Hazard_UK.htm

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I thought it was freight train going past the back door

It knocked the kids toys over.

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