Anyone feel the earthquake?

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

My daughter in Cardiff rang up to tell me about it, can't say I noticed it here

Neil

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

[RedsetterParticipant @redsetter]

Yes – I am somewhere on the Welsh border. The house jolted sideways, just once. I was surprised that neither of my two pendulum clocks were affected.

[Brian WoodParticipant @brianwood45127]

No effects over here in North Yorkshire

[Mike PooleParticipant @mikepoole82104]

My son in Bristol didn't notice but some of his friends did, can't have been too significant in Bristol.

Mike

[Roger Williams 2Participant @rogerwilliams2]

Sorry about that, might have something to do with the catering size tin of beans I had last night………

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Someone somewhere is cursing about a band of poor finish in the middle of a long cut…

My daughter is down to spend a placement year in Japan in 2019-20, I told her it was good practice.

Neil

[Bill Davies 2Participant @billdavies2]

I'm in Cardiff, but didn't notice anything. My son in law, elsewhere in Cardiff, did, so the effects seem to be a bit localised.

Bill

[Dave HalfordParticipant @davehalford22513]

The earth didn't move for me

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

I was camping near the epicentre of the Towyn earthquake in about 83/84.

I thought a big train went past the campsite during night, but was confounded to discover the track was a about 1/4 of a mile away. I send some time looking over the fence and scratching my head in the morning, only when i heard the news did I put 2 & 2 together.

Neil

[MuzzerParticipant @muzzer]

Funny to see an entire page on the BBC News website devoted to the earthquake – but no actual indication of WHEN it happened??? If you look closely at one of the graphics you can deduce that it must have been about 2:30 this afternoon.

Murray

[FMESParticipant @fmes]

I thought it was wind

Lofty

[Bill Davies 2Participant @billdavies2]

Neil, I had a similar experience, I think in 1991. In student accommodation at Aberystwyth Uni, I felt what I thought was a large lorry pass by – I was in a corner room on the top floor. I realised there was no road running by the hall, and wondered what it was. The news that evening reported the earthquake. The student in the next room felt nothing. I think it was the quake at Bishop's Castle that year.

Bill

[Geoff TheasbyParticipant @geofftheasby]

Nothing here in North Sheffield

Geoff

[Anonymous]

My brother, in Cardiff, said it was quite noticable; the settee and walls shock. His son, in Bristol, was on a Skype call back to Cardiff and he felt it a short time later.

Andrew

[colin branniganParticipant @colinbrannigan54160]

I didn't feel a thing and it seems to have been 15 miles away but I was in shed.

Colin

[CHRIS WOODS 1Participant @chriswoods1]

I certainly felt it, the epicentre was reckoned to be about 20km NNE of Swansea so must have been about 6 or 7 km from my home. The event lasted up to a few seconds and at first I thought it was a nearby quarry blasting but this was much worse. There is also a main road at the front of the house and I checked to see if a large truck had demolished the boundary wall. A friend phoned and told me it was a quake.

With all the rain we have been having the ground is waterlogged, this is S.Wales after all, so. the effect was made worse.

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Posted by Bill Davies 2 on 17/02/2018 20:49:50:

Neil, I had a similar experience, I think in 1991. In student accommodation at Aberystwyth Uni, I felt what I thought was a large lorry pass by – I was in a corner room on the top floor. I realised there was no road running by the hall, and wondered what it was. The news that evening reported the earthquake. The student in the next room felt nothing. I think it was the quake at Bishop's Castle that year.

Bill

Hi Bill,

Nice to meet another former Aber student!

Neil

[colin branniganParticipant @colinbrannigan54160]

Hi Chris,

My son who lives in Sketty was really frightened by it, his house really shook but as I said I didn't feel anything and I live on the Gower a few miles west. Yes, we have had our fair share of rain.

[Keith LongParticipant @keithlong89920]

I felt it at t'other end of Wales, Flintshire. It was strong enough to cause a cupboard supporting a printer to wobble a bit. The ground around here used to be the flood plain for the River Dee until it got straightened back about 1750, so very much a mixture of clay, mud and sand and very prone to getting water-logged – which it is.

[Alan Johnson 7Participant @alanjohnson7]

I didn't notice the earthquake either, but I am in Nelson, New Zealand at the moment.( No earthquakes here in the last seven days). We passed through Kaikoura on our journey from Christchurch to Nelson. Kaikoura had a 7.8 in 2016. Yes, there are many buildings still standing, and the people of New Zealand are rebuilding both Christchurch and Kaikoura!

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

I received this link overnight: **LINK**

https://earthquake-report.com/2018/02/17/moderate-earthquake-united-kingdom-february-17-2018/

Not properly awake yet, but it looks interesting.

MichaelG.

[Ray LyonsParticipant @raylyons29267]

I was on the top floor of the car park in Tenby and bought a ticket stamped 2.30pm. Then found that the lift was not working. Too engaged blowing my own top to have been influenced by a mere earthquake. Didn't feel a thing.

[Rex HanmanParticipant @rexhanman57403]

We felt it in Tidworth, Wilts. It felt like someone had given the back of the chair two or three shoves. No sound though and nothing rattled.

[DMBParticipant @dmb]

It was " 'I'm in N. Korea" playing with his fireworks again

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