Small earthquake tremor. Terrifying/awesome...

Wow the craziest shit just happened. Well to me it was crazy. I was sitting there on my bed about to smoke a bowl from my bong and searchin for something to watch on the internet. Well then I heard this loud deep hum type sound that sounded like it was upstairs... so I thought it'd be my sister doing something loud or dropping or moving somethingn heavy.(my bedroom is an extension downstairs). 2 seconds later the whole fucking room is shaking and it truly felt like I was on a ship in some rough seas. I had no idea what was happening or what to do. It was the weirdest, most spontaneous and craziest thing I've ever felt.... but afterwards I couldnt stop laughing. I couldnt believe it cuz I've never felt these tremors or owt before, and to go from sitting there normally to feeling like im in the sea trying to hold onto summit in the span of 1-2 seconds was quite terrifying...... but still totally awesome.

I'm pretty fucking high as well and it just felt like I shifted into some other reality in a second. Fucking awesome it was.... shame it only lasted a few seconds. Well, if it was going on longer it would have gotten pretty scary for me haha! Never experienced it before.

 

Thats pretty tight. I'm into studying geology so its cool to hear about things like this first hand to me.

 

Ahh that's cool bro. After it ended I was still like wtf just happened... went into the other room and looked at my bro through the glass pane separating two rooms, and he was looking at me with his hands out in the WTF?!? position. Then we laughed about it for a minute and my stepdad comes down the stairs like woah "wtf just happened did you feel that?"

I loled

 

"Tremors Felt Across Midlands

Updated:01:18, Wednesday February 27, 2008

Tremors have reportedly been felt across the Midlands.

Calls have been received by Sky News from Norfolk, Leicestershire, Bedfordshire and East Anglia.

Sylvia Tidy-Harris from Ellistown, Leicestershire described the tremor as a "real boneshaker".

"It was like a big juggernaut was coming down the road. It was very loud and the whole house shook."

The tremor is believed to have struck shortly before 1am this morning."





That was up pretty quick. Cool.

 

yeah i just got that too... was fairly confused for a bit hehe

 

BBC says it was 4.7. That's pretty significant for you guys in the UK who don't know how to react. For us Angelinos, a 4.7 is nothing but I would've been freaked out if I was in Britain of all places and had something that big hit!

 

I'm in the midwest..... we dont get those kind of things...

 

I know what you mean, except we did get an odd like 1.7 tremor in Northern Illinois like 2-3 years ago.

 

we had a small one in NY in the early 90's but I slept through it.

 

im actually in a disaster free area.. we dont get tornadoes either.. but we did have a "National Disaster" this summer when we got a shit ton of rain and we had crazy flooding... it destroyed just about every town in a 50 mile radius of where i live..

 

Holy shit that second picture is ridiculous. What part of Minnesota do you live in? I have family around St Paul/Minneapolis area, but they never told me about that.

 

I'm in south eastern minnesota... along the minn/wisc border... aout 2hrs south of the cities

heres another one for ya


and heres a link to a shit ton of pics from the flood

it was unreal.. the town i live in actually didnt really get hit as bad because we dont have any streams goin through the middle of town... all the towns that were virtually destroyed had trout streams running through them... and we ended up with something like 40" of rain in a matter of a day or two... it was so sad driving through some of them towns... wasnt trying to gawk.. just wanted to see what happened with my own eyes.. and it was unreal... the pictures only reveal so much.. FEMA is actually still here tryin to straighten things out....

 

Yeah there was flooding like that in Asheville NC a couple of summers ago. The town my grama lives just outside of asheville was completely underwater for like 4 days. Its right on the bank of the french broad river.

Quick random fact: The French Broad River is one of the only rivers in the northern hemisphere to run South to North.

 

That is absolutely horrifying to just see 15 foot deep holes missing from the road. I think I remember when that happened because Northern Illinois got hit with a lot of rain too, but not that much.

 

I thought it was middle 80's, because I was a baby.
1986

JAN 31 Seventeen people treated for minor injuries and
some damage (VI) sustained in the Painesville-Mentor
area. Minor damage also occurred at Bainbridge,
Bowling Green, Chardon, Geneva, Huntsburg,
Kirtland, Leroy, Madison, Metals Park, Middlefield,
Perry, Perry Nuclear Plant, Thompson, Warren and
Willoughby.
Minor damage in Pennsylvania at Albion and Linesville.
Felt throughout most of Ohio and parts of Illinois,
Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania,
West Virginia and Ontario, Canada. Some additional
states with only a few felt reports included Delaware,
Maryland, New Jersey, Virginia, Wisconsin and the
District of Columbia. maybe they are two different quakes?
I don't remember that one, but my mom does. I was perfectly comfortable with a boob, and took no notice. she lost several plates that were on a shelf. or was it coffee mugs? I can't remember.

I figure earthquakes can happen anywhere, even if they don't usually, but I just never pictured them in the uk before. don't know why though.

 

I was in Manhattan in early 2001 and there was an earthquake. I was like "WTF do these things follow me?"

 

I've read that on the richter scale it was 4.6 but some sources are saying it was 5.2. If I remember correctly from earlier it's the biggest one to hit UK since about 1983. I wanna experience it again mayne, I really do!... but in the UK apparantly these things happen every 20 to 30 years so meh, I've got a long wait.

 

That is crazy joker!