• 4.2 Magnitude Earthquake hits Kent: Residents vow to rebuild
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[QUOTE]The tremor originated near [B]Sandwich[/B] at a depth of 15km (9.5 miles) underground at 02:52 BST, it reported. Residents in areas including Margate, Canterbury and Southend-on-Sea in Essex felt the tremor, with some saying they thought it was a plane crash or a bomb. Kent Police said a number of calls had been received but no injuries or structural damage had been reported.[/QUOTE] [url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-32840579[/url] [img]http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/05/22/10/28F8CC8E00000578-3092179-image-a-4_1432285753063.jpg[/img]
Interesting that it was so localised.
I live just north of Dover and it woke me the hell up. It only lasted for a good 10 seconds but I thought there were a convoy of lorries or some shit going past the house because of the noise.
[QUOTE=Grizz;47778069][url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-32840579[/url] [img]http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/05/22/10/28F8CC8E00000578-3092179-image-a-4_1432285753063.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] Swear I've seen this picture before, years ago.
I know for a fact my parents woke up by an earthquake in the middle of the night years ago. Mom woke up feeling the bed move, and thought it was my dad jacking off. She didn't bother to look a second time, and fell asleep. But the cracks in one wall of our utility room proved something else.
[QUOTE=BuffaloBill;47778323]Swear I've seen this picture before, years ago.[/QUOTE] It was after the "hurricane"
[QUOTE=Dr.Fragg;47778313]I live just north of Dover and it woke me the hell up. It only lasted for a good 10 seconds but I thought there were a convoy of lorries or some shit going past the house because of the noise.[/QUOTE] Down in Hythe I just slept through. I would wager most of the town have too, Hythe is where old people go to die.
[QUOTE=BuffaloBill;47778323]Swear I've seen this picture before, years ago.[/QUOTE] Because it was used as far back as 2012 when Melbourne experienced a mini earthquake. Any mini natural disaster seems to draw this image or alternate text version of it back out. [url]http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/06/19/earthquake-shakes-melbourne-twitter-jokes_n_1608604.html[/url] [img]http://i.huffpost.com/gen/652099/thumbs/o-MELBOURNE-QUAKE-570.jpg?4[/img]
[QUOTE=Dr.Fragg;47778313]I live just north of Dover and it woke me the hell up. It only lasted for a good 10 seconds but I thought there were a convoy of lorries or some shit going past the house because of the noise.[/QUOTE] I wondered what that was. I heard the same thing.
[QUOTE=Merijnwitje;47778336]I know for a fact my parents woke up by an earthquake in the middle of the night years ago. Mom woke up feeling the bed move, and thought it was my dad jacking off. She didn't bother to look a second time, and fell asleep. But the cracks in one wall of our utility room proved something else.[/QUOTE] maybe your dad jacking off caused the earthquake and the cracks
Being woken up by stuff rattling in your room is really odd, I can't imagine how terrifying a real earthquake must be
Didn't notice a thing in Lydd and I was awake at the time as well.
Reminds me of the 2002 Dudley Earthquake that was 4.7 Apparently my mother woke up screaming that the house was falling down a mineshaft but I slept through it and woke up to everyone gossiping about their houses shaking and shit, but I was sleeping. Kind of sad to be honest.
Ha! I slept through it. Fuck you Earth!
[QUOTE=Merijnwitje;47778336]I know for a fact my parents woke up by an earthquake in the middle of the night years ago. Mom woke up feeling the bed move, and thought it was my dad jacking off. She didn't bother to look a second time, and fell asleep. But the cracks in one wall of our utility room proved something else.[/QUOTE] Maybe your dad just jerks off really hard.
[QUOTE=Cam00;47779180]Being woken up by stuff rattling in your room is really odd, I can't imagine how terrifying a real earthquake must be[/QUOTE] As an Californian, it's really no big deal. Most of us don't even stop what we're doing. Unless you're at elementary school when it happens, in which case they'll do the whole evacuate formality before going along with their business.
My 30 year old brother is a huge puss and last time there was a small earthquake in Kent, he just stood in the corner too petrified to move lol
[QUOTE=loopoo;47779929]My 30 year old brother is a huge puss and last time there was a small earthquake in Kent, he just stood in the corner too petrified to move lol[/QUOTE] Is your brother a cat or something
[QUOTE=helpiminabox;47780216]Is your brother a cat or something[/QUOTE] Just a humongous pansy. Some burglar broke into our house this one time and he hid in his room with his door locked and pretended to be asleep and called my dad's mobile to warn him. Dad got out of bed and confronted the dude, who held a knife at my dad before bolting. Pretty sure a cat would have kicked the burglar's ass.
[QUOTE=loopoo;47780286]Just a humongous pansy. Some burglar broke into our house this one time and he hid in his room with his door locked and pretended to be asleep and called my dad's mobile to warn him. Dad got out of bed and confronted the dude, who held a knife at my dad before bolting. Pretty sure a cat would have kicked the burglar's ass.[/QUOTE] To be fair that's a completely reasonable reaction to somebody invading your home :v:
[QUOTE=Dr. Evilcop;47780364]To be fair that's a completely reasonable reaction to somebody invading your home :v:[/QUOTE] not when your mum and dad and sisters are asleep with unlocked doors whilst you know there's a big random dude roaming around your house it isn't!
[QUOTE=loopoo;47780368]not when your mum and dad and sisters are asleep with unlocked doors whilst you know there's a big random dude roaming around your house it isn't![/QUOTE] So he should have risked getting him self killed? No, his reaction was a fine reaction. You should [B][I]never[/I][/B] confront an intruder in your house. Hide, call the police (not your dad) and wait for help. He doesn't want to be confronted either so if everybody is sleeping and you just hide then you probably have the best chances of surviving the encounter
The article mentions that small earthquakes are quite common in britain. Is there a diferent kind of cause of them than mostly in the world? Britain is quite a distance away from fault lines.
[QUOTE=Cam00;47779180]Being woken up by stuff rattling in your room is really odd, I can't imagine how terrifying a real earthquake must be[/QUOTE] I live in Northern California and that one that hit a few months ago literally turned my room upside down. My desk was tipped over and everything in my room fell down. I slept through it and waking up to that really scared the shit out of me. My friends said they literally thought they were dying or going to when it happened. It's just weird to see stuff rattling so hard, it's unreal.
[QUOTE=mcattack1092;47778366]Because it was used as far back as 2012 when Melbourne experienced a mini earthquake. Any mini natural disaster seems to draw this image or alternate text version of it back out. [url]http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/06/19/earthquake-shakes-melbourne-twitter-jokes_n_1608604.html[/url] [img]http://i.huffpost.com/gen/652099/thumbs/o-MELBOURNE-QUAKE-570.jpg?4[/img][/QUOTE] Yeah. It's kind of gotten old tbh. I'm kind of late to respond to this, but it was used in the 2011 Virginia Earthquake too. An entire image search shows the "originality" the internet has had with this instance. [img]https://belieber.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/2011-va-earthquake-we-will-rebuild-east-coast-damage.jpg[/img] I only remember because it was in some "Email this to as many friends as possible in the next two minutes" and a bunch of friends thought it was funny to spam my inbox with it.
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