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an Earthquake  :shock:

I think  :?  Just sat here doing some Uni work, and heard a rumbling, thought it was a truck driving past, then someone trying to get in and then the whole room shook. Housemate who was still felt it too...i do geography as well, its all a dream i tell thee

I was sat in my office and it wobbled :D

People are reporting an Earthquakes all over the country on the radio though  :shock:  8)

Haha I've logged on for this. Everyone in my house just gone to bed and snoozed through it. I was sat on my bed and I thought I was going mad.

Crazy  :o

I've been doing work all day and went straight to the Oldham game, didn't realise there were tremors in Kent until after this quake. The entire house shook.

It is indeed crazy, and cool 8)

If I was half asleep I would have probably freaked out a bit more.

I half wondered if someone was having a go at the patio door when I heard a shaking noise, then my bed started moving haha.

I think I will go to bed in a minute once I get my excited kid phase out of the way  :mrgreen:

Fuck me, I've just wandered dowstairs in the nuddy checking all over as I thought the house was falling down!

The bed was shaking like someone was furiously masturbating in a caravan. Apparently.

Swindon, twinned with LA!

Yeah i'm all excited, felt one before a couple years back (Dudley tremor), but this was crazy. I thought someone was having a go at the door.

Sleeping's for wimps, miss out on all the fun too  :D

I like that people get woken up by an Earthquake and log onto TEF to check it wasnt just them 8)

But I WAS asleep.

Yeah I hadn't gone to sleep which was good otherwise I would have slept through it  8)  :soapy tit wank:

I didn't realise the magnitude of the event, until you all logged on (and mates texting me, but thats not the TEF)

4.7 on the richter scale \ :D /

:) BBC is too slow. The TEF is where it's at.

Siezemograph measured it at 4.7, 30 miled from Hull, somewhere near cleethorpes. Pretty impressive we all felt it from Ooop North Yorkshire to Summerset

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2008nyae.php

edit. PS. Night night.

Right folks I'm no longer shook up  :|

Well off to bed now. Sweet dreams all  :)

haha, BBC is rubbish. quite strong one for us as well

Double post

night all TEF'ers

i thought i was going crazy too.

the mrs shat herself :D

fuck me...i thought i was imagining it.

i was gonna run to my pc and tell everyone but didn't in fear of being laughed at.
Shit, my first earthquake.

ACe

Awesome, me and dan were watching peep show and didn't notice.

i was reading and heard something in the attic move, i thought a particularly large mouse had put up quite a fight against the mousetrap.

I was in bed and heard my wardrobe shaking, thought I was going nuts and actually had to check there was no-one in my wardrobe before I could sleep again.

How weird.

I slept through it  :D

i woke up and thought something strange was afoot. turned on bbc news and they were talking about some rubbish to do with the US elections. what's the point in 24 hours live news if you're not going to do things spontaneously?

It was that strong i was thrown out of bed...






























No not really. I was fast asleep.  :)

that makes no sense, you could have been thrown out of bed whilst asleep.

silly boy

I was.  :o

and by the wife doesn't count


silly boy

:soapy tit wank:

I was chucking out Z's - didn't know about it 'til I heard on radio this am.

5.2 on richter scale apparently and centred in Lincs.

I can't believe how much of a fuss some people made about this watching morning TV!  

Earthquakes in countries that kill hundreds aren't as hysterical!

my bed was rumbling and the missus shouted stop wanking you dirty fucker :shock:

Confirmation that Ash Brake, Swindon (opposite the Orbital Centre) was "rocked" by the earthquake too.  I was asleep the doors on my built in wardrobe were rattling so much they woke me up, thought it was the cats at first, but they weren't about.

Wake up this morning to find out I'm no longer an Earthquake virgin, I feel used and abused to tell you the truth!!!!

Ha ha that's exactly what happened to me, except I checked to make sure one of my cats wasn't trapped inside!!!!

Booo! missed it all down in Sussex.  Mind I'm on a boat so the bloody thing is always rocking.  The missus said the earth moved in Lechlade but that was probably the milkman...

I slept right through. The in-laws live in Grimsby, so i look forward to hearing just how much the shat themselves...

I cannot confirm or deny there was any earthquake in Bromham as I was asleep - Im a bit jealous of you earthquake feelers!

I'll check with Ernie Escott, he is the font of all knowledge in and around the Bromham area.

I didn't feel a thing.  :(

That is my line

 :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Ive only just came out from under my desk.  :?

Same here just i could here the metal hangers rattling against each other.

I heard that it all started because Rick Waller fell out of bed.

I heard you made that up yourself

Slept through it. Funny thing was i only went to bed 15 minutes before it happened   :D

Didn't even know till I got to work and someone asked me if the earth moved for me last night. I thought they were taking the piss.

I heard that you were in bed with Rick Waller at the time and it was you that pushed him out.

why would i push him out? he is a beast of a man

i can confirm it was felt in bath and i was pissed!

I live on my own, i may have an overactive imagination.....

I was in bed trying to get to sleep when my bed started to rumble... i sat up scared and thought there was a man under my bed. I was to scared to look or leave the bedroom all night :(

Felt like a right prat this morning when i got to work n heard the radio!

For that i am sorry

I was sat downstairs reading and felt the chair wobble, felt like an express train had gone past but then I remembered I don't live near a railway. So I ruled that out and assumed it was just a big lorry had gone close by on the dual carriageway behind us although I'd never felt that before and we get plenty of traffic on the dc. It did occur to me fleetingly that maybe it was an earth tremor but I obviously dismissed that as being just overdramatic. So finally I assumed it was related to the most of a bottle of red I'd sunk and went to bed, woke up this morning and found out it was an earth tremor after all which was a bit of a relief (ie that it wasn't the wine). But the missus slept right through it and claims not to have noticed - mind, she's always saying she felt nothing when the earth has obviously moved. Erm, as earthquake survival tales go, I must say I'm a bit disappointed to only be able to claim "And then my chair went a bit wobbly", it's not really one to thrill the grandkids with is it?

From The Swindon Adver news site.

Posted by: martynp, Volpe Close, Swindon on 10:08am today

"Oh my god, it was amazing. The Earth certainly did move for me. It was quite orgasmic. I was making love to my wife and the shaking of the property just enthrilled the whole moment of passion. When is the next one due......
Oh my god, it was amazing.

The Earth certainly did move for me. It was quite orgasmic. I was making love to my wife and the shaking of the property just enthrilled the whole moment of passion.

When is the next one due......"

 :soapy tit wank:

My second earthquake, both in Leicester.  This one woke me and the missus up.  Frit me it did (as they say up here).

Mine too, the GF tried to convince me that there was a quake I rolled over and went back to sleep.  My first was the 8.0 one in peru last summer, that was a proper seismic moment.

You, sir, are a swordsman...me a mere amateur.  I salute you.

I must have been fast asleep when the the "Big one" in Indonesia hit, because other people said that their bed was shaking and stuff, although I did get rather heavilly drunk the night before (It was Christmas after all). I did get a tad wet though.

Whilst I was in Malaysia a few months ago I missed one in Bangkok, the misses was in BKK at the time though and it freaked her out a bit.

Earthquakes in Indonesia seem to be a very regular occurrence with a big'un (7 - 8.5ish) every 2 months or so. Each time there is a governmant warning which send the coastal population scampering for the mountains, for obvious reasons.

Considering my lack of job prospects in Bangkok I have decided to look outside of BKK, and knowing that I would get forewarned of a possible tsunami in Phuket has encouraged me to have a butchers there for jobs.

Also.

I once had a Fillipino GF, it was a very short lived affair and I would not reccomend a fillipino GF to anybody, but that's a different story.

But anyway, during my time with her I learned that Earthquakes are a common affair and mandatorilly they all the the exact procedure's of what to do should an Earthquake happen.

Apparently things like laying under the bed are a big no no because you could become crushed/trapped by falling debris.

Apparently the most sensible and safe thing to do is to stand in a door-frame which for whatever reason offers much protection.

I'd still be tempted to go for the "Under the bed" option myself though.

Can't belive people are making such a big deal about this, i bet some people phoned work to say they ain't coming in because of it. Absolutely stupid.

It had crossed my mind to pull an emotional sickie.

I decided against though as I realised that my boss would have told me to fuck-off.

Pah. Didnt wake me up.
Slept through a fire call too when my pager went off, i must have been fucked  :?

   Under the bed is for nuclear attack.

    It may be difficult for some of our younger readers to contemplate, but at the height of the Cold War around 1980/81 when the USA were deploying  cruise and Persching  missiles at Greenham Common ....that the Government had to issue civil defence pamphlets like Protect and Survive, which described simple  methods for trying to survive an attack.

  Such as sitting in the cupboard under the stairs and piling sandbags and earth bags o the stairs.....if no cupboard take down doors and make a lean to or sit under a big table and in both cases fortify with bags.   Of course lay in supplies of food and water.  This led to periodic panic buying of bottled water etc.

 Some entrepreneurial types even made a bit from building proper shelters for the well  heeled.

 Think the majority  of the population stuck their fingers in their ears and went la la la la it will never happen, while some of us got on with protesting.

Well tbf they were right, weren't they?

I remember once a "chat" that one of my step-dads had with me once, about how the world might be blown about because of one man who could push a button and drop a big bad bomb that would destroy the world.

Being about 10-ish at the time my imagination was running wild and I had images of a character who looked liked Einstein, running around with some kind of remote with a big red button on it whilst laughing insanely.
Looking back I think that he was probably a bit concerned about the Cold war and that.

Delboy and Rodney had their own fall-out shelter didn't they, and Dell-boy knicked the lead from some yard.

Oh,

And who remembers that animation: "When the wind blows"

Sad movie that.

Yes I do. I remember being reallly scared of Nuclear War as a kid,I suppose everyones scared of it but I think I assumed it was inevitable.

You know Im sure they used to show adverts on telly of what to do in the event of a nuclear blast.

In the event of any big civilisation damaging disaster then I'm taking full advantage with a full on looting session.

It's the only sensible thing to do.

Yeah, I remember them :D

I thought it was all a bit pointless, unless you were rich and could afford a lead lined, concrete, underground bunker you were basically fucked.

Don't think hiding under the stairs, or taping your windows, would protect you much from the initial blast, or the fallout.

Happy, carefree, childhood days :mrgreen:

They were scary days Yeovil ... I remember feeling exactly the same .... we had lessons at school to tell us what to do in the case of nuclear attack, for all the good that would have done. As you say it seemed to be inevitable, you just hoped they would hit the midlands or the north and not the south.

Im going way off topic here but there used to be all sorts of Public Information adverts.

the one where the kids went into the Sub Station after thier football.

no fishing near overhead power lines or you'll probably die :mrgreen:

these things must have been proper killers of kids in those days to make adverts about it.These days its eating to many Burgers that kills kids.

The instant death blast radius of a even modern nuclear weapons isn't that big is it? A couple of miles radius or so for instant? So unless you're close to an obvious target or they blanket bomb the country, you'll probably be ok for a few weeks. Until other stuff like cunts going around looting your stuff and foot shortages kick in and you get cancer.

Fuck knows, I could be wrong. But I thought the image of one bomb taking out the entire south of England or something was a bit of an exaggeration.

Me too. That's what happens when you sneakily watch "Threads" on a portable TV in your room.

As for the adverts, I'm sure they were real. They definitely produced useful literature like this in the 60's

http://www.ki4u.com/survive/index.htm

No point in bringing that one back, all new rods are carbon fibre which don't conduct electricity. Fish near overhead power lines all you like.

Wasnt their a nuclear bunker underneath the now demolished police offices on fleming way?

Ace..

http://www.cybertrn.demon.co.uk/atomic/index.htm

Protect and Survive.

Ace, you should use furniture to block off doorways.

http://www.cybertrn.demon.co.uk/atomic/refuge2.gif

 Indeed on this occasion they were right.....personally I think it important that governments know they cannot expect to get away with decisions without  raising some extra parliamentary opposition.

Hahaha. then you should build a fort in the corner  8)

http://www.cybertrn.demon.co.uk/atomic/inner1.gif

  Its a distinct possibility.....back in the day, it was always good fun to reveal how councils and other authorities took steps to ensure their own survival, while doing fuck all for Joe Public.

  Their counter argument of course always being that in the event of attack, it would need organisation to run the country still.

My history teacher used to work for the american goverment, and was told that it was the shelter for this region, should any royalty or Mps or any important people be in swindon where it about to be blown up

 He was probably working for the CIA.....

That would be ace if he did!

that's some scary shit.

Nuclear isn't that bad, if Fairford gets done we'll only need major repairs to the house at worse.

http://img406.imageshack.us/img406/5310/distancevo6.gif

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_DfmRt8pgU

That the advert probably.

The fall out warning seems a bit complicated.

Its all abit comedic these days but I still find it kinda scarey

Yeah. Forget about the radioactive fallout.............

and some chemotherapy.

The truly scray thing is that should freaky countries like N. Korea and Iran figure out HOW to do it, then there is a fair chance that they will.

 Next time we see a pic of fB's room, I fully expect to see something like this in the corner.

his whole room is like this, it's an attic.

Where's the moat?

Drink lots of stashed bottled water, wait an hour and hey presto.