Did anyone else just feel that earth tremor?

Just getting info that it has been felt across the UK...

I felt it, felt as if the house dipped

Crikey...That was more than a bit scary! I thought my wardrobe was on the way out!

Youre right Chris.Felt all the way from Darlington to London.

Just getting reports that the tremor registered 4.7 on the richter scale..

It was the first time my wife had said that the earth had moved!

:D

Its been felt across the UK... according to initial reports the tremor had a magnitude of 4.7 on the richter scale and was focused 30 miles south of Kingston-upon-Hull.

Was quite exciting!

ha ha, is it just me or are "initial reports" always made up by the media so that they can trot out a story before they have any actual facts? (No offence Chris! I know you were just letting us know what you had heard). The British Geological Survey stated it was a 5.2 So everything before that was a factually incorrect guess. The "initial reports" also said the epicentre was somewhere in Birmingham. If they don't know then they shouldn't speculate.

I'm only saying this because I arrived to an office full of people who all told a different story about the magnitude, the location and the extent of damage :)

*edit* ha! case in point. Just looked at the BBC website and they are reporting that the BGS say it was a 5.3 this despite the fact that the BGS website has a press statement saying it was 5.2 !?!
*edit 2* sorry to go on :) Shropshire Star are also incorrectly saying 5.3 Reuters have 5.2 and CNN are the best with 4.7 and "somewhere north or London". And God bless the Doncaster Today newspaper which unashamedly storms in with a whopping 5.5! These inaccuracies don't sound like much but the measurement is a base-10 logarithmic scale. So a 5.3 is 1.412 times as powerful as a 5.2 and a 5.5 is 2.818 times as powerful as a 5.2

We are fairly close to the railway line so my eldest son woke up and thought it was a train.
I jumped out of bed, it was shorter in duration but more violent than the last one which I remember was at around 6 am in the morning though I can't remember off hand how long ago.
The floor was moving in a more side to side way whereas the train vibration is more up and down. Our windows are the noisiest, old victorian sashes.

A neighbour on her way to work said that there was a chimney and bridge down in Market Drayton. I thought she was getting confused with the epicentre in Market Rasen I believe but she said definately not. There is a fault over Market Drayton direction so perhaps that is why.
In the 1990 tremor a chimney came down in our road. My parents over Kingsland way said their bed jumped in the air!

Lemon squeezer - the Market Drayton fault is called the Hodnet Fault. But I doubt there was any additional activity from that fault, certainly not enough to bring down a bridge!

I had hoped that there would be some interesting quake-related damage to report from TW Towers, but no, not even as severe as the Dudley earthquake when a picture moved to a slight angle and a drawer opened a couple of inches.

I haven't checked yet, but there is the exciting possibility that some soot could have fallen down the chimney. Rather boring really. I mean, the house is 200 years old, you'd have thought it would have had enough time to acquire the odd poltergeist or two.

I agree, it’s always a difficult one.

Every media outlet wants to present the latest information to their audience so within the first hour there can be a certain amount of inaccuracies...

There are obviously some stories you just would not run until all the facts have been officially released.

Its true there is always a bit of media hype. In market drayton they closed the high street in casethe night club chimney caved in. When the BBC came to film it for their news they had nothing but scaffolders to film and even used the story that the chimney fell on the owners car. I was there at 8.00am this morning and there were only a few slates on the road.