Title: Earthquake in Kent???
Pebs - April 28, 2007 09:07 AM (GMT)
styeffo - April 28, 2007 09:09 AM (GMT)
Selesdavcaprisharaserenafan - May 1, 2007 11:05 AM (GMT)
It slightly amuses me that a "mysterious crack" has opened up on a cliff in hampshire too - Coincedence? no bloody chance! roflmao
We're ferries affected at all?
SuperBRAT - May 2, 2007 08:23 AM (GMT)
Wow. :o I used to go up to Kent a lot, it's nto that far from here, often to the Folkestone area. I didn't expect this kind of thing to happen on our doorstep as it were.
Sam - May 2, 2007 08:25 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (SuperBRAT @ May 2 2007, 09:23 AM) |
| Wow. :o I used to go up to Kent a lot, it's nto that far from here, often to the Folkestone area. I didn't expect this kind of thing to happen on our doorstep as it were. |
Apparently the English channel is a hotspot (relatively speaking for seismic activity!
The west midlands is also a hotspot, remember the dudley earthquake? We felt it in leicester!
Lex - May 6, 2007 09:20 AM (GMT)
when we lived in Worcester, we were affected by an earthquake (I think the epicentre was in N Wales). I was sat with my back against a solid stone wall and remember feeling a slight lurch and the sensation of the wall turning to jelly.
A really peculiar sensation.
On a safety note, we used to have offices in the San Francisco/Bay Area and when you visited, you were always given a leaflet about what to do in case of an earthquake. Apparently the safest place to run to is within a door frame and not outside or under a desk!
My first visit there was in 1990 about 8 months after the really big quake... I wonder how long it will be unti the next one?
Apparently Japan is due for one (if that was a truly huge one, then global economic collapse could ensue) and there is also a possibility that Hawaii could suffer a bad one which could cause one of the islands to slide into the ocean causing a tsunami... in Australia
:yikes:
Sam - May 8, 2007 07:51 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Lex @ May 6 2007, 10:20 AM) |
when we lived in Worcester, we were affected by an earthquake (I think the epicentre was in N Wales). I was sat with my back against a solid stone wall and remember feeling a slight lurch and the sensation of the wall turning to jelly.
A really peculiar sensation.
On a safety note, we used to have offices in the San Francisco/Bay Area and when you visited, you were always given a leaflet about what to do in case of an earthquake. Apparently the safest place to run to is within a door frame and not outside or under a desk!
My first visit there was in 1990 about 8 months after the really big quake... I wonder how long it will be unti the next one?
Apparently Japan is due for one (if that was a truly huge one, then global economic collapse could ensue) and there is also a possibility that Hawaii could suffer a bad one which could cause one of the islands to slide into the ocean causing a tsunami... in Australia
:yikes: |
so we all may as well shoot ourselves now then Lex ;)