Either theres just been a horrible nuclear atrocity in York, or theres just been an earthquake.

Well, I say earthquake, more of a tremor really, but for a few seconds my flat shook from side to side, like being wheeled downhill in a go-kart.

Suffice to say I've never felt the earth literally move before, and being from Britain I never thought I'd actually experience it.

Awesome. And whats more awesome is, you guys are the first people I'm talking to about it. Don't you just feel special?

Wait. Second people. My girlfriend just stumbled out of bed and asked me what happened.

:D

Welcome to the club, Lima.

I've been through major quakes (I lived in Northridge in 1994) and regularly feel minor quakes (three in the last month--Calexico, Mexico 100 miles away has been shaking quite a bit lately). They're fun as long as nobody gets hurt.

BBC News have just told us it was 4.7 on the richter scale. So a nice small one.

At this juncture i'd just like to say that earthquakes aren't cool unless they're really small like this one.

I've lived through some pretty funny earthquakes.

4.7 is definitely a good rattle. Nothing to be ashamed about. Once you get over 5.0, you really start to worry because thats when things start to break. My biggest was 6.8 and that resulted in smashed dishes, loss of power and water for a week, and the roof shaking off the walls.

There are two kinds of quakes--I forget the exact terms, but one is a rolling type of quake and the other shakes up and down. Rolling quakes just kind of jiggle you, whereas the up-and-down quakes shake you the fuck up.

I have the US Geological Service site bookmarked because I'm always curious how big they are when I feel them. Check out your details:

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

By the way, I got the hangover I measure all hangovers by in York.

choadwarrior

Awesome reply for two reasons.

1: The link is brilliant. It told me that the epicentre was 50 miles south of Hull, placing it in Grimsby. My home town. Weird.

2: I also got the hangover of all hangovers in York, but then I live here, so hey. I believe you've told me this before though at some point, unless theres another stripper who got drunk in one of our many pubs :)

Enemy PLATE TECTONICS used 'Earthquake' on YORK!

It was super effective!

YORK fainted!

choadwarrior

TeeHeeHee!

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BigFrank105

HIKER has been defeated!

"Ouch! I just tripped on a rocky poke'mon, GEODUDE!"

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BigFrank105

I herd u liek plaet tektonikz

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"He was cursed with a horrorshow of a face, like Guiseppe Archbold doing a study of mollusk tumors."

That was no earthquake. That was me doing ur mom!

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I was gonna send a robot back in time, but I got high.

I want a disaster fund setting up right now! I live about 116 miles away from the epicentre and I can tell you all the devastation is horrible! There are birds singing, children playing and a small pile of clothes that may have been knocked over while I was trying to get into bed but which I'm blaming on the EARTHQUAKE!!! Oh the humanity!

no quakes hurr in canehdeh.

i've never experienced one, but i would like to. that would be just way too weird to have the ground below you shake to the point that you cant stand up.