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Family Forum / Parenting / Mothers / February 2008A
BOOM BOOM! Shake the room http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7266136.stm As the official mommies correspondent closest to the epicentre, the official response is "OMGWTF". Happened to be awake at the time, and at first I thought it was just the wind rattling the gate on the side of the house. Gradually built up to the house moving side to side violently by several inches, and I'm amazed that there doesn't seem to be any damage at all down our street. Felt like I was on some kind of fairground ride. Probably only lasted 30 seconds, but felt a hell of a lot longer The most frightening thing is that it seems to be on going. Watching the BBC news Market Rasen is violently moving several miles across the country, from being just south of Hull to just north of Peterborough. FFS four hours later, and they still can't find it. So far the nearest interview they've managed is some chav's in Hull, which is about 50 miles away :)  Signaturescrum > BOOM BOOM! Shake the room > [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > interview they've managed is some chav's in Hull, which is about 50 > miles away :) And bizarrely even though it was felt round here and even though I was awake most of the night I managed to miss it - am most disappointed! >> BOOM BOOM! Shake the room >> [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > And bizarrely even though it was felt round here and even though I was > awake most of the night I managed to miss it - am most disappointed! oh and the really funny thing is that dh is in California atm and before he went we were teasing him and K showed him earthquake drill (she reads a lot) > BOOM BOOM! Shake the room > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7266136.stm > > As the official mommies correspondent closest to the epicentre, the > official response is "OMGWTF". Interesting no? We are in California home of the shake rattle and roll and we have only felt one in the three years we have been here. But it's a bizarre feeling. To us it felt like a wave going through the house. Not sure I am interested in another one. Glad you are handling it well. Cindi > Happened to be awake at the time, and at first I thought it was just the > wind rattling the gate on the side of the house. Gradually built up to the [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > interview they've managed is some chav's in Hull, which is about 50 miles > away :) [Borrowing Cindi's post because Scrumble's never showed on my 'server. TR] >> BOOM BOOM! Shake the room >> >> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7266136.stm [snip] >> The most frightening thing is that it seems to be on going. >> Watching the BBC news Market Rasen is violently [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >> the nearest interview they've managed is some chav's >> in Hull, which is about 50 miles away :) During Loma Prieta's little shake-rattle-and-roll back in '89 none of the major networks understood that San Jose wasn't a suburb of San Francisco. Like your Hull example, 50 miles separated the two cities with lots of open hills. I've since learned that brains never seems to be a requirement when being a talking head for any of the "news" programs. Glad you enjoyed the experience! The Ranger >> BOOM BOOM! Shake the room >> [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > Cindi So how does a 5.3 measure against what you get over there? Best description I can give it is it sounds like a really heavy truck driving past, and as if a giant pair of hands had picked the house up and shook it. The national news has given me a laugh. People over 80 miles away talking about stuff fealling off shelves, and yet I'm only 10 miles from the epicentre and all I can find is a crack in the tiles in the shower, and some of the pictures on the wall are out of level. Oh, and someone in Leeds describing the 'massive' earthquake as "the first I knew of it I saw my keys moving across the table". Sod the keys, I was more concerned about the walls,roof and floor moving to notice what my keys where doing. -- scrum [snip] > So how does a 5.3 measure against what you get over there? Barely a blip on the radar anymore. :) Did you get jostled (similar to pounding a aluminum table top) or did is feel like the ground was sliding back and forth like ice skating sideways? The Ranger > [snip] >> So how does a 5.3 measure against what you get over there? [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > The Ranger From what a I remember it felt as if the entire house was shaking backwards and forwards, quiet violently, and roughly in the direction of the epicentre. Although that could be because I was lying down at the time, and I would have been lying in roughly that direction. At first it was just a general vibration, but the stronger it got it felt more like a definite shake. According to the news it only lasted 10 seconds but, even allowing for human discrepancies, from first noticing it to it dying off it seemed to last for a good thirty seconds. -- scrum > [snip] >> So how does a 5.3 measure against what you get over there? [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > Did you get jostled (similar to pounding a aluminum table top) or did is > feel like the ground was sliding back and forth like ice skating sideways? Must agree with Ranger that wouldn't necessarily make the news. The one here was wavy like you were standing still and world around you was moving. The kids wanted it to happen again. Cindi > The Ranger >> [snip] >>> So how does a 5.3 measure against what you get over there? [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > The one here was wavy like you were standing still and world around you was > moving. The kids wanted it to happen again. Don't get earhquakes fullstop here, at least we're not supposed to. I really hope that no-one from California was here over the last week, they'd wetting themselves laughing. The only damage has been the occasional chimney falling down, and the only injury was a broken leg from a falling chimney. The way the press have milked it you'd think that half of London had collapsed. -- scrum > BOOM BOOM! Shake the room > [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > interview they've managed is some chav's in Hull, which is about 50 > miles away :) Glad it was a small one. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Marc |
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