Earthquake??

[Workingman]

The UK actually gets more of them than we realise, but they are usually about the 2.0 mark and only felt locally, very locally. We get one similar to today's magnitude about every three years or so.

The largest ever was apparently in 1931 off the Yorkshire coast - 6.1.

[TheOstrich]

Yes - some of the smaller ones can result from the collapse of old underground mine workings (Nottinghamshire particularly prone to this) but today's tremor at 4.4 would have been way too big for that - so a proper 'quake. Interesting you felt it, Kaz - I didn't feel anything where I was today (north-east Bristol) which was arguably closer than you were!

[Kaz]

On the BBC news site people reported feeling it all over the SW and S Wales Ossie!

[TheOstrich]

On the BBC news site people reported feeling it all over the SW and S Wales Ossie!

It all depends where the fault lines underground are, Kaz - a quake makes them twang in sequence, so people close to, or on, a fault line will feel the shaking more than folk who might be physically closer to the epicentre, but crucially aren't on a fault.

So there must be a fault line running up Glawster way .....

When we had the Dudley earthquake backalong, we felt the effects out in Sutton Coldfield far more than people in Birmingham itself. The quake set off vibrations and activated fault lines that went north to Cannock, east to Lichfield, and back south past us. It certainly woke me and the neighbourhood up; the bed was vibrating!! A work colleague's father, who was a night security guard out at Tamworth, had it worse still - he was apparently knocked over by the shaking!

[JanB]

We get them here all the time, some we feel, some we don't.

And we have earthquake insurance too

The biggest one we've felt here was down in the Algarve, when the earth literally moved, as did the sofas we were sitting on. Dinns also felt it in Lisbon and all the lights went out up there.

[Kaz]

On the BBC news site people reported feeling it all over the SW and S Wales Ossie!

So there must be a fault line running up Glawster way ..... !

Bound to be!

[Workingman]

On the BBC news site people reported feeling it all over the SW and S Wales Ossie!

So there must be a fault line running up Glawster way ..... !

Bound to be!

Definitely. It was responsible for the sink-hole that swallowed Dr Foster, who apparently never went back again.

[Kaz]

[JoM]

Ossie...I remember the Dudley one well. It was late at night and there was a rumbling and I remember things, including the radiators, rattling! It was a strange and unnerving experience.

I also remember one when I was still living at home, it was the late 80s (and would've been a Monday afternoon as I was on my day off) and one of our neighbours was up on a ladder at the time. The quake caused the ladder to fall and he broke his arm.