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Earthquake rocks the country
Wednesday 27th February 2008, 6:46AM GMT.
The biggest earthquake in the UK for nearly 25 years has shaken homes across large parts of England including the West Midlands.
It struck just before 1am this morning.
The British Geological Survey said the earthquake was of the magnitude of 5.3 on the Richter Scale and the epicentre was near Market Rasen in Lincolnshire.
The West Midlands was hit by an earthquake in 2002 in the Dudley area that reached a magnitude of 5.0.
Full story in Wednesday’s Express & Star.
Did the earth move for you? Did your pets act strangely? Were you woken by it? How did it affect you? Post your comments below. Include your name and address and the best will appear in Wednesday’s Express & Star.
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WOW! I have never ever felt shaking like it!
I had been asleep for about 2 hours and was woken by the building being shaken. I just woke up and thought “Earthquake – again. Cool!” (I am a physical geography and geology student at Keele so you can understand why I was excited!. Everyone in my block (uni halls) ran onto the landings to talk about it. I couldn’t get back to sleep for an hour or two though.
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i WAS WOKEN UP BY THE HOUSE SHAKING, THE BED WAS RATTLING AND I THOUGHT IT WAS SOMEONE TRYING TO GET INTO MY HOUSE, I WOKEN UP CONFUSED AND THEN REALISED IT WAS AN EARTHQUAKE. JAYNE ORMSKIRK LANCASHIRE
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It was felt in the Coseley area – it was like the windows were being shaken and the bed shook too.
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I have recentley moved to my new flat, which is a converted public house. I thought maybe an old customer had came back to visit.
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Yes – my wife felt it at about 1 am – I was dead to the world !!!!
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i fely it in wolverhampton, i thought i was dreaming at first…. husband never even woke .. men….
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I was just about to go to bed, and the whole house started shaking! My girlfriend Claire thought my
Mom had fell out of bed! Not something my Mom would be happy about as she’s been dieting for as long
as I can remember. Then she said it might be the monster from Cloverfield!!! Very amusing :)
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We in Amblecote Stourbridge felt it, but not as bad as the one in 2002. Still scares the hell out of you though.
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so it wasnt a dream then…………….or the wind !…..felt it in Kinver, the wardrobe started to attack me.
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I was reading in bed and the house started to shake quite badly. I was scared stiff. It even woke my husband which is a miracle in itself and he matter of factly said it was an earthquake as if we have them all the time. He then promptly went back to sleep leaving me worried the house was going to collapse.
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I also felt the earthquake. i remember going to sleep thinking how quiet it was outside which was really strange and then waking to my pictures trembling and my bed rocking. i was pretty scared and my daughter slept through it. there were a few people in the street awake aswell looking out there windows.
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I live over in Telford, I had just got in at about 1am and collapsed on my bed, then everything rattled. But, bizarrely enough, I thought one of my parents had fallen out of bed and so I just ignored it. It was only when I was buying cigarettes at Asda this morning and somebody mentioned the earthquake to me that it finally clicked…
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I witnessed it!!!!i was in bed and me house moved!!!
was crazy!!!
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it was precisely 12.47 when the earth literally moved beneath my feet i heard my two dogs howling and i ran and hid under my table. i was trembling and stayed there untill the shocks had definately stopped.
it was a traumatic experience.
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I felt like Linda Blair from the excorcist. my bed shook and woke me up, and mirror rattled on the wall and i could not get back to sleep. I think all work placesw should have given us the day off today cause we are all so tired now lol, maybe a bit too much to ask for.
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I was woken up with the bed shaking and could hear everything in the house rattling. I woke my boyfriend up and told him he thought I was mad until we turned the tv on this morning! Very Scary!
Samlesbury, Lancashire
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I didn’t feel it i live in coseley, we do have a parrot though and we were woke up by him!!!!
He definately felt it he squarked like mad!!!!
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it was terrifying
im still scared now!
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i was just noddin off when i felt the quake….me tv was bouncin across the floor along with everythin else…i didnt think it was a 5.3 though like the report said. the 1 a few years ago seemed worse :-S
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I was trying to get my cats in at just after midnight they had been acting odd all evening when i finally got them all in and went to bed i thought it was a big truck outside the house but when i looked out the window i realized what was going on my other half was awake and didn’t notice it!!
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I SLEPT THROUGH IT
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I was up till 3am and didn’t feel anything. Would have been good though – Wolverhampton needs a little excitement.
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My bedroom door opened and closed twice! I thought it was just wind and rumbles of thunder, until I put the radio on this morning!!
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I was sitting quietly, when the whole room started gently shaking. It felt like a bus or lorry was passing by, but I knew that at that time it wouldn’t be. My two cats looked up, but I seemed more concerned than them. This morning, when I heard the news, I was rather surprised that we had experienced it here in Wolverhampton.
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Yep – i felt it too in sunny Bilston!! Bed was shaking backwards and forwards and it only lasted about 10 seconds! Just dozed off again because i thought it was just another small tremor like the one 6 years ago!
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It was around 1am and I was awake, arguing in bed with boyfriend, the whole room shook and the bed wobbled. I thought it was the ghost of my Mum trying to let her presence be known.(The bed used to belong to her). The arguing stopped right there. Had a feeling it was a tremor though so I did a Google search to find answers, typed Express and Star and found this article, what a relief!
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I felt it, thought someone had broken in! Was really scary. Then just assumed it was my husband turning in bed!!
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it was one of them nights i couldent sleep it was about 12:30 when i turned off my tv in bed
i just shut my eyes as all my over head bed unit shook and rattled i thought am i dreeming my partner
said to me when i told her shut up you are dreeming again but i knew i wasent i even looked up bedroom window to make sure there wasent a lorry parked in my house because that is what it felt like to me
moxley ,bilston area
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I felt something but never realised it was an earthquake!! Thought it was just a strong wind shaking the windows !
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i cudnt sleep all nite thought it was a ghost as a woman who used to live in my flat was murderd kids slept straight through it though lucky for some
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i was woken by the bed shaking my eyes opened up nd i saw my ladders were about to fall so i grabbed them and when the earthquake had finishes i had a fag because it really shook me up.
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i live in codsall we had just got to bed and heard the start of it thought it was a work train going past as we live near railway lines than all of a sudden the whole house and bed started shaking i ran straight into my daughter and ahe was fast asleep thougt house was subsiding went to sleep then woke when aftershock came but that wasnt that bad
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i slept right threw it!
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i was dead but when i got on the bus i was told about it by a mate of mine i did not belive
it and then i read the papers then i had to belive it
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we did not feel it! gutted!
felt the last one :D
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we felt it, the glass cabinet in our bedroom was shaking really scared me didnt now what was going on till this morning lol
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OMG i gt woken up at like 1am last nite, my bed woz shakin really bad. I neva evn thought it cud of
bin an eartquake, i juz thought it woz a ghost. I woz proper scared! I jumped out my bed, turned my
light on dn ran out my room! I thought my room woz haunted! You dont undastand how happy i woz dis
mornin 2 find out it woz an earthquake.
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I felt it in Wednesbury, thought i had a ghost in the room!
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Thought the dog was having one of it’s I’m being chased dreams!! The bed was really shaking! Nobody else in the house woke up though, it was the same with the last one in Dudley my whole family slept through it, nobody believed me until they saw the news this morning. We live in Stourbridge, can’t believe how far out it was felt.
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Good-morning all!
Earthquakes are no fun at all.Experienced a bad one
on the island of Bali in 1976!
Could it be something to do with all the natural
gas&oil&coal that has been taken out of mother
earth during years past,and the old place just
settling down again?I wonder!
FJ Bartling,Hilversum,Holland.
I,m glad Holland is so spongy & wet,I don,t think
one could happen here!
s
ettling down?I wonder.
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I felt it, but it was only mild in Wolverhampton, which is why most of you slept through it.
The one in 2002, had its epicentre in Wolverhampton and felt more servere, were as this one was stronger but further away.
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Sometimes it takes me a while to get to sleep – and I was lying there, in bed, well on my way, when I felt shaking. I couldn’t really explain it, had no real idea about what was happening. But then a friend mentioned about an earthquake hitting north of London, and I realised what had happened. Really strange, never felt anything like it.
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wow this was something else
it was just turning 1am as i was taking my rubbish out i closed my bin lid which was in the garden, and just then the bin vibrated as well as my garden knomes and my drain pipe.
it did not hit my mind what it could of beeen
i thought it was just a passsing lorry and then i realised that lorrries would not passes on my private street..
i was shocked to realise the truth so i ran inside my house turning on the sky news where it had told me and millions of people what had happened.
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i went to bed at something to 1 this morning and i lay down just as i was nodding off all my bed started shaking i thought i were being burgaled or something.
i think the last earth quake was a lot worse than this 1.
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What earthquake? I didnt feel anything, and being a typical student I was awake at the time watching The X-Files, lol. I missed the last one too, everyone else felt it though!
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That was really scaryy!!! i woke up and i coudnt stop coughin i was about to go to get some water when i felt all dizzy went down stairs into my mum and dads room and my sister was in there all of them wide awake tellin me it was an earquake!!!!! Amy…13…Wombourne/Wolverhampton
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i felt it quite strongly here in wolverhampton. though it may have been magnified by me being on the third floor of an old victorian house. it was pretty strong and i had no idea what was going on.
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I didn’t feel a thing (over in Lichfield); I’ll ask the neighbours if they felt anything. I missed the last one as I was in Turkey and I can’t believe I may have slept through this one!
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woke up at 1am live on 9th floor of high rise in wolves bed was shaking and light shade rocking thougt i was having a bad dream went back to sleep
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i was in my living room with my sister wen i felt the house shake. we both thought it was the wind!! lol wen we found out there had been an earthquake it made sense lol cz the wind obv wudnt have been tht harsh! but whooo i felt an earthquake lol i missed the last one!! grrrr
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and im in wolverhampton!!! =]
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My missus thought the wardrobe was attacking us!
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I thought it was the collective sound of the Wolves supporters jaws hitting the floor when they look at the league table!!…Boing boing!!
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I knew it was an earthquake!!!
Im in Colyton, Devon, and i felt it at about 1am this morning… didnt think anything of it till now!!! wonder how far accross the country it was felt?
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Typical headline really. Hull Daily Mail, manchester evening news and Newcastle evening Chronicle to name jsut a few all asking the same predictable headline. So if its cliched you want to be then i guess i should say that up here in the North West where I live now, mother nature is just confirming what we have known all along about Britain’s second city. Yep, Manchester Rocks alright! Well really, you didn’t expect me to suggest that the second city was Hull did you?
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Did the earth move for you? That has to be the most cliched headline of all time…and the most predictable. Hull Daily Mail, Newcastle Evening Chronicle, Manchester Evening News all asking the same question. So if its cliched you want please let me jump on the bandwagon. Mother Nature was obviously proving what we have known all along that Britain’s Second City well and truly rocks!
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I thought that the 2002 Dudley quake was worse than this one last night, at least that quake shoke the radiators in the house.
All this quake did (well in our house anyway)was move the bed once. and than I heard some rattling noise for 5-10 seconds afterwards.
But I suppose it’s becuase I live less than a mile from the epicenter of the Dudley quake, and 100 miles from the one last night.
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Did feel a think – was sound asleep – oh well!!
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i’m gutted i felt the one in 2002 but never felt a thing this time round, only found out about it cause i had the radio on in the car
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so what
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The bed moved, the house shook, the lights flickered. It was soooo powerful, then i just rolled over and went to sleep. Must have missed the quake.
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I though McCarthy was being chased outta town, wishful thinking
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Again, I missed it!!!
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Earthquake? What earthquake? zzzz,zzzz,zzzz,zzzz.
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I never felt a thing, i was asleep being lazy :)
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Yes, it was felt in Wolverhampton. However, the Bible says one of the signs of the Lord’s soon returning is earthquakes in diverse places.
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felt it in walsall
but people keep going on about it, its doing my head in
im the suprised the custard bowl didnt colapse
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I was awake watching X-Files and didn’t feel a thing, couldn’t have been that fantastic now could it?!
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I just wish the earth had moved in my back garden
It would have saved me £60.00
on cultivating it.
I might still be in luck with the after shock
[please] [please] [please]
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I didn’t feel it, didn’t know anything about it till i got to Euston on the Wednesday morning and all the cockneys were talking about it, then the Mrs foned me and said her sister told her about it, The Mrs didn’t feel it either.
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i live in wolverhampton, i neva felt a thing as i slept thru it. I even slept thru the earthquake that hit dudley in 2002. thought the 1 in 2002 was stonger has every1 was talkin about it and not talking about the recent 1
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