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Well, the earth didn't move for me!

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maggiewinchester

maggiewinchester Report 27 Jan 2015 19:15

Apparently, there's been an earthquake (about 6:30pm) in Winchester!!
Well, not really an earthquake, just a series of tiny earth tremors.

I didn't feel a thing!!

First I knew was when my daughter texted me - I thought there'd been a 'quake where she lives.

All my decorations are still on the shelves, no books have fallen off the bookshelves.

There was more movement this morning when George (cat) got excited and was running and jumping over the furniture!!

Researching:
Henry Floyd (g x 4 grandad) Allegedly the heaviest man in England in 1842

MR_MAGOO

MR_MAGOO Report 27 Jan 2015 19:24

It'll be tonight Maggie.......... ;-) ;-) ;-)

maggiewinchester

maggiewinchester Report 27 Jan 2015 20:19

Don't think so, Mr M :-0

Researching:
Henry Floyd (g x 4 grandad) Allegedly the heaviest man in England in 1842

Luckylainey

Luckylainey Report 29 Jan 2015 13:18

I didn't feel it either Maggie. I was in Winnall at Tesco's. :-)

maggiewinchester

maggiewinchester Report 29 Jan 2015 13:36

Looking back, at the time, one of my cats (George again) was being a pain in the wotsit - extremely excited - but that may have been the wind - by that I mean the wind outside.............................
not mine :-0

To be honest, any bus/lorry that goes past makes my house shake.

Did you feel any 'aftershock' rumbles?

I'm just over a mile south of there.

Researching:
Henry Floyd (g x 4 grandad) Allegedly the heaviest man in England in 1842

Kay????

Kay???? Report 29 Jan 2015 13:48

There was a rumble in Leicestershire last night apparently it was felt quite a distanc in other counties......something must be happening way down. :-)

Luckylainey

Luckylainey Report 30 Jan 2015 08:50

Maggie, I didn't feel anything at the time of the tremor or after. I work at Tesco's and customers were coming in and telling us but there was nothing up our way. They say animals know before us as they can sense these things. My first thought, was are they fracking locally?

Kense

Kense Report 30 Jan 2015 09:28

You can find out if you had one in your area recently from this list:

http://www.earthquakes.bgs.ac.uk/earthquakes/recent_uk_events.html

maggiewinchester

maggiewinchester Report 30 Jan 2015 10:16

Thank you for that Kense :-D

LL, initially, they said the epicentre was South Wonston way - then changed it to Winnall. Maybe we were too near the epicentre to feel the full effect :-D

The Winchester pics site on Facebook has some hilarious comments.

Researching:
Henry Floyd (g x 4 grandad) Allegedly the heaviest man in England in 1842

Gwyn in Kent

Gwyn in Kent Report 31 Jan 2015 10:10

Glad to hear you are OK Maggie and you too Lainey.
Relatives near North Walls didn't feel it either.

I remember when we had 2 reasonable size quakes in Folkestone area a few years back. I felt nothing although some areas experienced quite a bit of damage.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6602677.stm

Gwyn