EARTHQUAKE!

[Beagle 2]

There's been a shit English earthquake in Kent...

linky

DRAMA as a woman is sort of helped over some bricks a bit.

Ever been in one? Strangely enough I've been in two, when I was living in Leicester in 2002 and 2003, lasting only a few seconds, but pretty shit scary at the time. They made the floor feel like liquid, it was a very odd feeling indeed, not like the rumble I thought it would be like but a very fluid motion. Must be fucking terrifying to be a proper full-scale shakedown.

[Blumf]

eff'ing typical, we had a big one in Dudley a few years back and it barely registered on the BBC news services, but oh oh! Have one in the south-east and it's suddenly the biggest news story of the millennium!

Sodding London centric national media.

[Adrian Brezhnev]

I've only just heard about this.... is Kent still standing?

[micanio]

eff'ing typical, we had a big one in Dudley a few years back and it barely registered on the BBC news services, but oh oh! Have one in the south-east and it's suddenly the biggest news story of the millennium!

Sodding London centric national media.

I remember the one in Dudley - we felt it up here (Harrogate/Ripon - about 30 miles N of Leeds) - the whole house shook for about 4-5 seconds. Scared the crap out of me.....

My dad (classic dour Scotsman) said exactly the same thing about the media.  I'm pretty sure the Dudley 'quake was on the news though, IIRC it was stroneger than the Kent one and there was much more damage....

[chumfatty]

eff'ing typical, we had a big one in Dudley a few years back and it barely registered on the BBC news services, but oh oh! Have one in the south-east and it's suddenly the biggest news story of the millennium!

Sodding London centric national media.

Thats exactly what I thought when I heard. No one cares about the  Blue Panda Pop Swilling Black Country Folk.

[VegaLA]

We had an earthquake in northridge earlier this week, amybe last week but I did'nt feel anyhting.

Worst earthquake I have felt so far was when I was in an elevator aproaching the top floor, which was the floor I worked on at that time. Two guys got off the lift on floor 7, just as the doors closed the quakes started, moving the elevator from side to side causing me to brick it! As soon as the doors opened on nine I was out of that in a flash! Not that I ws any safer mind. The photo frames on the walls started shaking from side to side and I was contemplating doing  a runner down the stairs but everyone else was going about business as usual.

[surreal]

eff'ing typical, we had a big one in Dudley a few years back and it barely registered on the BBC news services, but oh oh! Have one in the south-east and it's suddenly the biggest news story of the millennium!

Sodding London centric national media.

My thoughts exactly - no-one made a fuss about the one here in Dudley but the Kent one has been non-stop on the news as though the whole county had fallen into the sea....

[quadraspazzed]

Bah, I thought this was gonna be about this guy. You disappoint me.

[ccbaxter]

eff'ing typical, we had a big one in Dudley a few years back and it barely registered on the BBC news services, but oh oh! Have one in the south-east and it's suddenly the biggest news story of the millennium!

Sodding London centric national media.

Not true - whenever English attempts at earthquakes are mentioned, surely everyone but everyone fondly recalls the woman who described in delightful Black Country tones how it was "loike a great big carrrrroot coomin' down the rowwwad..."?

(Hm, apologies for dodgy phonetics).

[Santa's Boyfriend]

:-)

[little pianist]

hehe

[rudi]

Why does a story in Kent prove London-centricity?

'Tis only a further 60 miles to Dudley than it is to Folkestone...

[Pinball]

It's a conspiracy I tells ya.

[EddyWhore]

I remember the one in the midlands in 2004 or 03.  We all thought somebody had fallen over upstairs, cos it was a pretty run of the mill bang, then nothing.

Pretty unremarkable really

[Blumf]

The Dudley one sounded like a large group of people running around upstairs to me. 5.0 up here as opposed to Kent's wimpy 4.3, bunch of southern poofs!

[rudi]

Maybe it was more newsworthy as Dudley post-quake just looked like it had been tidied up a bit...