I am sure we just had an earth tremour, anyone up here to confirm it else I will always be wondering!!!

Hi didnt hear or feel a thing here in Baxenden mind if been stripping walls most of the afternoon, will put granada reports on see if anything is said.

I was stood in the kitchen on the phone, I felt it and the cat legged it, I had a look out to see if a big truck had come down - which would be very strange in itself!!! But there was nothing there. I will ask the neighbours when I see them, but it certainly seems the only explanation.

I'm in Burnley so pretty close by, and we felt nothing here either.

Nothing, here, but I live a  bit further South :d

Nothing here either on the South Manchester / Cheshire border....

Add more lemonade to it next time Natalie :D :D

Gabrielle x

I'm just wondering what Natalie might have been up to at the time ;) ;) ;)

Daisy

Hmmm - I'm not going to enquire what you were up to, when the earth moved for you, Natalie :D

Though I must admit you are describing something like one of the tremours I experienced in Tokyo!

Margot

Two minds with just one single thought Daisy :D :D :D

Margot

Giggle :D :D :D

Daisy

Had you noticed that she's not made any comment, Daisy ??? ;) ;)

Margot

Maybe there's an aftershock ;) ;) :D :D

Daisy

well the earth hasnt moved here since her first post and i am only a couple of miles away.

LOL sorry for the delay...was a bit busy .....LOL ;) :P

I think I must have been going mad!!! No one else felt it, but I definitly felt something and so did the cat! It was only for a split second, but I could hear it and feel it through the floor, I was on the phone to my mum at the time and she asked what the noise was, so she heard it!!!

I think I will have to stop the lunch time glass of wine, and get the Soutern Comfort out in stead, at least then I would a decent excuse for my moments of madness! ;)

I didn't feel anything :D
I remember be did have a tremor once when I was about 15.
I was in my bedroom and all the things on my dressing table shook and fell over

Oh no it wasn't even that bad, the glasses shook a bit in the cupboard, but it was over so quickly I don't think anything would have had chance to get damaged!

TBH I think it was a tremour, but it was literally a split second, I think if you had have even just been walking or competely engrossed in something you wouldn't have noiticed it. My neighbour said she hadn't felt anything but around the same time, her cat was fast asleep and suddenly jumped up and ran, the cat is 17 years old and can hardly move, so she said her cat definitly felt something!

I did check the news but of course it was all about the cricket, so no luck there!

All joking aside, Natalie - maybe it WAS a tremour - the cats going potty would seem to indicate that- there is some sort of geological fault around the Cheshire/Wirral area, I believe!

Margot

We are a bit further up than that, but I can think of no other explanation. As I said I checked to see if it was a truck, but there was nothing there, and the only other thing I could think of that sounded similar was if someone was really hammering the front door (like Fred Flintstone ;) ) but there was no one at the door.

Well I guess I will never know now!!!

I found this Natalie - might interest you :-

http://www.bbc.co.uk/manchester/have_your_say/2002/10/21/earthquake_2.shtml

Thank you Margot, at least I know my lunch time glass of wine is safe now!!! ;)

I haven't felt all the others just that one yesterday - glad I was right though :P :D LOL I did start to think I had made it all up!!! :D

We had a tremor here in Linolcnshire in 2001 ...only a small one, I think I remember the epicentre was in Leicestershire but it was exciting ;)

I have heard of a few in England, the only other I remember was when I was about 6/7, we lived in Cheltenham, in a pub (my mum and dad ran a pub called 'The Midland' op. the train station, if anyone knows it!!) we were up stairs and the building swayed back and forth and that was it.

It was much less than that yesterday, but reading that link there seems there was some damage in Manchester :(

I must admit though, I am quite into the wierd things that go on, earth quakes, tornados, massive storms, I would love to live somewhere where it is a bit more exciting than England, but then when you look at the state New Orleans is in now, we thank God we don't suffer like that.

>It was much less than that yesterday, but reading that link there seems there was some damage in Manchester

Natalie, the one in Manchester on the link was Tuesday 29 October 2002. :-)

Recent UK earthquakes....

http://www.quakes.bgs.ac.uk/recbrit.html

See, my brain doesn't work before that glass of wine ;) :D

Well, now I am back to thinking I have gone mad/made it up/not kept my level of alcohol high enough!!

BTW incase anyone is wondering, I'm not really an alcoholic (well, not all the time ;) ), just a bit blond!! :rolleyes: and the bit of blond isn't even real LOL :P

:-D :-D

Sorry, I should have left you in blissful ignorance :-D Never mind, you've now got a good excuse to drink that wine. ;-)