Bloody great earth tremor

Our whole house has just shaken like a leaf in a storm, really bloody
scary.

Anyone else feel anything.

 

Yep. Most bizarre..

Apparently there were earthquakes in Sumatra earlier today

 

Ginge

 

It was just me banging your wife whilst you were polishing your bike.
And yes the earth moved for her as well.

 

any reference for that ?

Just as long as it stays well clear of Bandung

 

Shame.

 

So that's what it was. Thinking about it, it was a tiny bit like the
September 2002 Dudley earthquake - only, well, tiny. 4.8 that was
apparently.

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5.3 the BBC is saying. I felt it up here on Wearside.

 

Yeah, all over the news this morning. I wondered what all the fuss was
as I didn't feel a thing. Still, I slept through the storm of '87 too.

Maybe it's because my flat is close to a bus route so I'm used to
noises & vibrations throughout the might.

 

We live on a tiny island.

It wasn't exactly the eruption of Krakatau.

 

Or even Krakatoa

 

So how come we can have a strong-ish earthquake centred on somewhere in
Lincolnshire when the nearest tectonic plate boundary is somewhere in
the middle of the Atlantic?

Surely ukrm has a seismolgist or geologist lurking.

 

Cheltenham, East of Java.

 

If you prefer the 1883 misspelling, yes.

 

It affected the midlands. You felt it. Proof (as if we needed it) that
you do indeed live in the midlands.

I woke up to the bed shaking and went back to sleep. It wasn't until I
got an email this morning that I remembered it had happened. Quite
peeved actually I would have gone and looked out of the window at the
trees shaking.

 

it escaped from the filming of a doctor who episode.

 

Yep, here in Reading the whole house sort of jumped up and down a bit.
Just the one jump, mind. Not scary, just odd.

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I think there are some cows in Milton Keynes that might take issue with
that.

They might be when you stop looking at them.


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There are pressure points all over the planet, not just at the major
plate boundaries. Fault lines occur all over the place, and it's these
that are the most common sites for earth movement, given that they
are, by definition, areas where different bits of rock have moved in
relation to each other in the past.

Not I, but http://www.soton.ac.uk/~imw/Geology-Britain.htm is a good
starting point if you're interested in this sort of stuff.

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IANA Geologist, but the term you are looking for is intraplate
earthquake. A random google reveals this: <http://www.swenvo.org.uk/
environment/sec_envphen.asp> as your starter.