woke up around 1am...thought something had crashed into the house...hubby grunted that it was just the cats playing...

and then I come to work and discover it was an earthquake!!! WOW...never experienced one before :D

gonna ring hubby in a bit to get him to check the house, we're in Lincs and there has been some damage apparently.....

Well I felt it..... Shouted at Beano to stop it (thinking he was scratching while leaning on my bed!!!!!) and promptly fell back to sleep not even realising it wasnt Beano until I woke up this morning!!!!!!!
But it woke the kids up  much to there delight!!!! ( I am about 25 miles away from the centre by road!!!)
Feel cheated now LMAO
Lea :)

It was 4.7 on the Richter scale.

Felt nothing here at all in Bristol.

Last one I felt (South West England) was during an annual  work appraisal
interview, I thought my supervisor was nervous making the table shake :D

This was in 1990.

>Shouted at Beano to stop it

First the earthquake - followed by a second reading on the Richter Scale as dog owners everywhere shouted at their dogs to stop doing whatever it was that they were doing! :)

LMAO
Lea :)

Felt it here inLeicestershire. About 1.10am I woke up as I thought my son had got up to switch his TV off. His room is in the room above mine and I heard like very loud footsteps on the floor.Howvever he said he never got up so I presume it was the earthquake.

I felt it here in the South West - slightly. Felix's crate was rattling and I thought it was weird since he wasn't moving. I then got a text from Fiona saying the whole building had shook! It crossed my mind that it could have been an earthquake but I dismissed it thinking it wouldn't be anything that interesting, probably just a coincidence!

well the cats were twitchy, but the dogs never made a sound!!

someone at work here said there were some aftershocks til 4am, but I never heard/felt them ..

It woke my husband but I slept through it. We had one that woke us both with the shaking and the roar about 10 years ago - shame I missed this one!

I felt the earth move in Doncaster!!

I was woken by the dogs moving around, then felt the house shake a few seconds later. The dogs soon went back to sleep, but my chinchillas were calling all night and were more active than usual.

About 5 mins before the quake both my cats got under the duvet & Jessie & Rjj started barking, then came the quake & poor KC nearly fell off the bed

The epicentre was about 12 miles away in Hull & it was a 5.2 quake-no reports of injuries, but some damaged

LOL my friend who lives in Hull was woken up by it yet her hubby slept right through !

We certainly felt it.  We live less than 100 metres from the A1 and at first I thought a lorry had swerved off the road into nextdoors house (semi).  It also set off one of my sons noddy cars so all we could hear was a beep of the car horn and it took a while to find!!  The children slept right through it all.

i got woken up at 1am and thought my luck was in with the bed shaking , until i realised OH was on nights :(

the news this morning said the epicenter was Market Raisen in Lincolnshire and 5:2 on the Ritcher scale!

this is the 3rd one i've experienced and its still scarey.

I thought dogs were supposed to be upset by earthquakes!  Meg slept through it though my son's parrot had a panic flap.  He knew something was happening. 

We are only about 25 miles away but I slept through it (nothing new there, slept through a burglary once :-D) Sophie and Stephen were both woken by it though and oldest son and daughter also got woken up. Son lives in a top flat and said the whole block was shaking ..Stephen said the whole of our house was shaking

I had only just dropped off so initially thought I was dreaming.. Then that it was the wind that had got very strong (we are quite open to the wind).. It wasnt until I looked out & saw no trees moving that it freaked me out abit.. Woke hubby who said "what" & promptly fell asleep again lol Not long after (although it was apparently) the door was rattling so that must have been the aftershocks.. We live about 1 hour away from MR.. :) :)  Not a sound from the dogs outside either.. :)

We're only miles off Market Rasen and the epicentre so I definitely noticed it. First thing everything started vibrating and my birds all fell off their perches in their cages, then the house literally shook. It wasn't until it had stopped that the dogs all went mad barking, and THEN hubby woke up. :)

didn't feel this one, but was in Turkey twice when there were quite significant quakes... strangest experience of my life... very weird!

I leapt out of bed and the house felt like it was on top of a washing machine on a spin cycle! I raced round the house seeing if I could see what an earth it was...then realised!  It was very unnerving. Our new house is 25 miles from the epicentre, as it is empty we are off to check it over today.

Diane

> I thought dogs were supposed to be upset by earthquakes!  Meg slept through it though my son's parrot had a panic flap.  He knew something was happening.

I was quite disappointed in my lot, aren't they supposed to know when one's coming?  They all woke up the same time as I did, when the rumbling and shaking hit.  Leapt about for a few seconds then all went straight back to sleep!

It's the hot topic at work, most people woke up but a few slept through it.  The woman I work with thought it was burglars and couldn't get back to sleep again, one of the lads woke up and put the news on and couldn't sleep for a while.  Poor lad, he's absolutely knackered today!

Most people have been saying they thought it was burglars - weirdly enough my first thought was 'earthquake' shortly followed by 'hang on, I'm in Lincs!  can't be' :-P  I'm in Scunthorpe so fairly near the epicentre, bout 20 miles I think.

My dogs didn't warn me - but they did take quite a time to settle afterwards. I'm only about 5 miles from the epicentre, and whilst we had a bit of shaking, the worst thing was an enormous bang. The central heating was making a dreadful moise and I thought that was blowing up at first :(. But nothing seemed to be happening so I went back to bed. The phone hasn't stopped ringing today with friends who heard 'Market Rasen' on the news and thought they better check that I'm still here!

Yep, earth moved in Manchester.  Dogs didn't make a sound, not even sure that they woke up!

I didn't feel it in Leeds and neither did my lazy dogs (or they kept quiet about it if they did!!). 
My twigs had fallen over in the living room but it thought nothing of it until I turned on the TV.

My Mum, Dad and sis 7 miles down the road woke up tho!

I must have had too much red wine to wake up

I slept through it in North Yorkshire but it woke my friend up 6 miles down the road. It also woke my step mum up near Grantham.

It woke me at 00.58 HRS here in Lancashire with the bed shaking and the wardrobe door rattling .
The weird thing was that it was quiet , it made no noise at all.

We felt it here in Spalding Lincs, had lots of problems with boiler and was convinced it had blown up!

didn't feel a thing-i slept like a log, and there was nothing amiss in our house. Its weird though, a friend less than 5 mins up the road reckoned her headboard was banging on the wall and that the bed was shaking-she thought her eldest daughter was doing things with her fella!

> The epicentre was about 12 miles away in Hull & it was a 5.2 quake-no reports of injuries, but some damaged
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Nope, it was Lincolnshire.

> Nope, it was Lincolnshire.

<sigh>I was quoting the first reports from the BBC & also Sky-The BGS didn't release the correct information until after I had posted so I couldn't change it

I did wonder how you had got it wrong :D :D :D :D :D
Heard on news it took them a while to find epicentre so will lert you off !!!!
And us in Lincolnshire dont get earth quakes very often at all!!!
Worst of it is, trying to explain Plate tectonics to a 9 year old in terms he will understand, not the way I know it LOL
They have both gone to bed hoping there will be another one!!!!
Lea :)

It woke us up in North Yorks, the house shook, I thought it was a heavy freight train as we live close to the railway,  and went back to sleep.  Spender didn't budge but Sheba got up and ran for the kitchen.

Dearlady - is THAT why you keep your cats secretly in anuvver part of your house... because they are 1 ton PANTHERS??? rofl... cats crashing about!

Clearly being totally sensible, I asked boys in my house if they had been rattling the walls, then blamed thedogs for leaning on a wall whilst scratting, then asked Kelda if shed been chewing the walls and was making the house collapse...

Then sat for a while and figured i must have imagined the walls wobbling and the monitor waving around before my very eyes.... and only when my dear sister in Worcs rang me up to say 'Im frited, the house is falling down' did it dawn on me it must have been an earthquake.

Dogs didnt notice a thing... nor did OH or housemate.. unobservant creatures they all are!

ha ha ems - my Aunt thought it was the funniest thing she had heard when I told her - he hasn't lived it down, bless 'im

His Mum phoned at 7pm last night to make sure we were ok....like yeah, the earthquake only happened 18 hours previously.....but other than thinkin that a lorry had crashed into the house it appears there was no damage, and not even any new cracks, unlike some of the reports I saw on the news....

Hope no-one on here was affected by it other than sleep deprivation...