Earthquake?

yep we felt it here in Hull, where are you?

I'm in Lincoln, it was pretty shaky here!

It lasted about 30 seconds here, power went off.

Nottingham. How was it for you? It wasn't too bad here, but I've never noticeably felt one before, so I'm still a bit freaked. Started like a car thrum, but became properly wall-shaky quite quickly.

we didn't lose power but it was pretty shaky

No power cut here, though, and the animals haven't gone crazy loud. I feel a bit dizzy, mind you.

feelable tremors in hackney -- i was looking at my computer desk thinking why is it shaking, then the whole building shook a bit and made noises

haha turned to ile for reliable info obv, hi foax long time no etc

Just hit us. Fucking terrifying. I thought the picture on my monitor was going funny, then realised it was shaking, then it built to a crescendo.

where are you lynskey?

Manchester btw

The power didn't stay off long, it just went off 2-3 times quickly. We're in an old house though, so the shaking might have mesed with the electrics or soemthing.

bbc says "reports of tremor felt in west midlands area, more soon"

manchester building shake craziness. wow so was this north only?

myspace bulletins section has just exploded into life with a mix of hysteria excitement and apocalyptic panic.

now on news24

yo
leicester big quakin

north only if north includes hackney pisces

ah. gotcha. is that better or worse i wonder.

Yes, woke me up in North Yorks.

the wonders of blogging..sorted by date on Google Blog Search
http://tinyurl.com/3yzblh

bloggers report the following locations re: experiencing the earthquake...

Derby
Rotherham
Lancashire
Oxford
Norwich
Manchester
Lincolnshire
Coventry
Nottingham
Bedfordshire
Leamington
Market Harborough

is hackney furthest south on that list? it was negligeable here but enough to get me back on ilx!

Nooo! I wanted to feel an earthquake! I was hanging up my clothes at that time I think, but didn't notice anything. Nearest I've come was being woken up by that fuel dump exploding in Hemel Hempstead a couple of years ago.

Mark, I first heard about it on my AFC Wimbledon forum so it's likely it made it further south.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2275158.stm

checked again...No mentions that i can see of London...Nottingham mentioned alot

4.8

Oh arse, I'm thick, someone pointed me to an old story. Sorry.

BBC 5 live..4.7 on the richter scale

35 miles south of kingston-upon-hull according to yank expert

being in a block of flats in manchester, that was a bit spooky!
the lights wobbled and the lamp stand was all over. :(

yank expert sez some reports even in London ...expect aftershocks

cool!

35 miles south of Hull..that would be somewhere in Lincolnshire? as the centre

i am way ahead of yank expert

"35 miles south of kingston-upon-hull"

This must be bloody close to Lincoln then

took bbc news 19 mins to mention.
a poor effort

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=0.30%C2%B0W+++53.46%C2%B0N&ie=UTF8&ll=53.501117,-0.65918&spn=5.988068,14.172363&z=6&iwloc=addr

Real link this time

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7266136.stm

Wow, Caistor

Nothing ever happens in Lincolnshire, we'll never hear the end of this

BBC 5live were on the case quick...they had phone calls in from the public, just after the news at 1.00

it had never occurred to me that earthquakes happen in britain

i feel mad dumb

I live on a main road and there are a lot of lorries going by at night which shakes the house a bit. So even if there is a decent aftershock I won't know it really is one, grrr.

Well BIG HOOS you can tell by the excitement at a wee one that they're something of a novelty to us!

I was pretty surprised at how slow the BBC site was with this.

Still feel dizzy ;_;

xxxpost HOOS they don't happen often (or at least, ones that you can feel don't, there are lots of undetectable ones)

west midlands is the usual centre -- theere's a big fault line and small ones aren't uncommon

the unit my mum and dad's record player was on fell off the wall during one, and another left cracks all along the landing ceiling

in the first one mum thought a helicopter was landing on the roof; the second she thought a cow had jumped in the downstairs window -- when quizzed how on earth a cow jumping in the downstairs window was a vibration she felt she recognised, she gave NO CONVINCING ANSWER

This all seems like an excellent opportunity for SCIENCE

BBC News now saying it was 15 miles northeast of Lincoln

and 4.7

Take that West Midlands

I’m sure we’ll survive, it’ll be forgotten about by the evening after Gordon Burns has said his piece on it.

felt it here in lincolnshire, pretty cool. i was mixing down some music staring at the moon out the window, super weird!

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

Got the warning, felt nothing.

Same here. Very disorienting.

Dunno how legit this is but I'm not in the hazard zone: https://www.sf72.org/hazard/tsunamis

CA geological survey website is unsurprisingly not accessible.

my family up there not responding to texts, maybe some cellphone outages

apparently there was a cluster of smaller quakes in the same area, yesterday morning

Here's when it would happen, if anything (12:10 p.m. PST):

Tsunami waves are expected to reach the coast in San Francisco around 12:10 pm. Tsunami sirens are going off along the coastline in parts of Northern California.

Waves may already be impacting Eureka and Fort Bragg. pic.twitter.com/9cmFi9jWOS

— Colin McCarthy (@US_Stormwatch) December 5, 2024

!

Evacuation Order for Tsunami issued for West Berkeley:

"Tsunami coming to West Berkeley. EVACUATE NOW. Stay east of 7th St. See https://t.co/Q7EBsaq1Se.

Immediate threat to life. This is a lawful order to leave now. The area is lawfully closed to public access." pic.twitter.com/9zgM9k1BNl

— Colin McCarthy (@US_Stormwatch) December 5, 2024

heard from the family - they said it was really long and rolling, but not much damage reported

Good to hear Andy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzMlCj0hf4M

my stepbrother said all his surfing buddies are out on the water, they may not have even known about it

Tsunami warning is being rescinded, which is good.

too bad, that could've been the end of Emeryville

!

🐦[Evacuation Order for Tsunami issued for West Berkeley:

"Tsunami coming to West Berkeley. EVACUATE NOW. Stay east of 7th St. See https://t.co/Q7EBsaq1Se🕸.

Immediate threat to life. This is a lawful order to leave now. The area is lawfully closed to public access." pic.twitter.com/9zgM9k1BNl🕸
— Colin McCarthy (@US_Stormwatch) December 5, 2024🕸]🐦

too bad, that could've been the end of Emeryville

RIP Pixar

That's what they get for announcing TS5.

Looks like the Berkeley evac order is also rescinded: https://www.berkeleyside.org/2024/12/05/tsunami-warning-issued-for-california-berkeley

Is that Chevy’s still there?

i didn't feel this at all though my kid claimed to in santa cruz which is weird. I was at the gym when this evaucation order hit (I'm about three blocks away from the evac zone in berkeley), my wife told me to go home and rescue our dogs. So left, heading toward this potential tsunami, to rescue two chihuahuas who did not even register that there had been an earthquake earlier and continued licking themselves in their dog beds. evac order cancelled when I was halfway home. what an annoying day!

the Chevy's is empty, they moved out, leaving that awesome location vacant.

too bad, that could've been the end of Emeryville

hey now my recording studio is there

you should move your studio to the vacant Chevy's, though freeway noise might be an issue

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/earthquakes/california-earthquakes-aftershocks-tsunami/3576434/

a fair number of aftershocks

i like how news organizations always send a crew to photograph supermarket aisles full of items that fell off shelves, because that photo-op is so completely reliable

the Guardian had a photo of a destroyed bong shop, glass everywhere

San Diego 6.0? 😬

Magnitude 6.7 earthquake
Affected countries: United States and Mexico
3 miles from San Diego Country Estates, CA · 10:08 AM

I'm seeing 5.2?

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/ci40925991/

ah ok, I got the earlier one from a coworker in CA

Pretty decent lil 4.2 earthquake. The epicenter was Dwight and Piedmont in Berkeley.

A couple things fell over in my kitchen. That was a good jolt, I had a hard time getting back to sleep

Yeah, I felt it pretty strongly. I had a hard time going back to sleep because I started thinking about how the current federal government might (not) respond to a massive quake in this area.

oh yeah... if they won't even help Huckabee in Arkansas with flood relief, there's no way they'd lift a single finger for the Bay Area

that was kinda fun

Agreed, a nice little jolt. But I also thought similar to beard and Andy there.

Yeah I woke up with an "oh shit", but fortunately it was quick (<10 seconds I think). This is def the last time we want a big one hitting the bay. I also left my emergency water jug in the storage unit. Need to grab it and fill it again.

Had a plate fall off the dishrack and it didn’t break. Felt grateful for the soft story retrofit the landlord did awhile back. I also felt gratified by my upbringing in storing valuable breakable items on lower shelves or at the very back of cabinets.

I felt a baby aftershock yesterday afternoon... just a quick 'thud!', no real shaking to speak of

Yeah, felt that too. Like a quick snap of the fingers.

another little jolt

We had an unremarkable 4.6 early this morning... I woke up and went back to sleep

But what was funny is that a spokesperson from the USGS gave advice to 'stay in bed and put the pillow over your head'... which is honestly great advice for most everything

gonna happen at last

Southern California’s San Andreas and San Jacinto fault systems are at their highest levels of tectonic stress in 1,000 years in what scientists describe as a “critically loaded state”, according to a study published earlier this month.

“Our results show that stress levels on multiple fault segments are now at or above the highest values seen in the past millennium and that the region may be capable of a large through-going rupture involving both fault systems,” Liliane Burkhard, the lead author of the study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, said in a statement.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Se7hlVEE7KU

LA hasn't seen an 8+ since we've been recording down there, right? But those faults are fully capable of that I believe, though unlikely.

I remember years ago reading about a simulation that estimated 2k deaths and 200 billion in damage. Was kinda chilling just reading about the high level details. Link to these estimates: https://www.shakeout.org/california/scenario/

I suppose the 2008 sim was what made the news and what I remembered... but that seems so long ago.

Here's a disturbing video of how the coastal basin area would be pretty devastated with residual shaking:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2Ow0Yuv5co

I suppose this sim was done in 2008? Lord knows the $ valuation of damage would be higher. Hopefully not the estimated deaths.

And that was simulating a 7.75 quake with an epicenter up towards SLO

my oakland building is from 1927 so it's survived a few... and they did a soft story retrofit about four years ago
Hoping it'll hold up, but who knows!

That New Yorker article on The (PNW) Big One was so chilling I feel it got memory holed.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big-one

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/how-to-stay-safe-when-the-big-one-comes

oh no I vividly absorbed every detail of that, trust me

Ha ha, me too! I meant that it was so frightening you'd almost think there would be some national/federal prep/messaging about it, but afaict, nope, not then, and of course not now ...

200 bill is nothing it’s only one-fourth of a ballroom

https://archive.ph/2026.06.11-151312/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big-one

Idk how rigorous inspections were/are for soft-story retrofits, though it does make me feel better that my landlord did one, as I live two floors above the soft story garage.

Relatedly, after Loma Prieta there was a massive program to reinforce URM (unreinforced masonry, e.g. regular brick and concrete brick) buildings. Some of it was done haphazardly, many companies that did the work shut down not long after the funding went away, and the City of Oakland lost a lot of building records. Basically, there are a lot of ???!?s in terms of whether buildings were reinforced properly/thoroughly.

I napped through Loma Prieta, but I was living in a one story house then. The shaking feels worse if you’re higher up.

good luck California