And the ground trembled
So, about one am I could feel a definite tremble in the floor through my feet. Strange, thinks I, I’ve never noticed the trains causing vibrations before, I didn’t think we were that close to the railway line. Well, it wasn’t a train. It was, apparently, an earthquake. Who’d have thunk it! That’s number three for me; my first was in Morris, Minnesota, my second in Pasadena, California and now, my third while in Colchester, Essex.
The US Geological Survey is reporting it as of magnitude 4.7 in Lincolnshire. The USGS has a really cool web site where you can check out details of the latest tremors around the world and report your experience of the event. Which I did, yay me, doing my bit for science!
Current temperature: here 4C/39F, there 18F/-8C
February 27th, 2008 at 7:17 am
Damn - I missed it again! You’re just the lucky one I guess :-).
February 27th, 2008 at 11:22 am
Yeah, special, I am!
March 1st, 2008 at 9:39 pm
Did Colchester lose any more church towers?
I have to say we felt zilch in Hampshire. Although, considering my ability to sleep through anything, I wouldn’t have noticed a 7.4 !
March 3rd, 2008 at 11:58 pm
No, all the Colchester churches are as they were when you were here.
The boys slept through it too! I heard from my mum, though, that in her part of the woods it was quite rocky.