Tim Attwood wrote:
>>> Heh, I was wondering how things were over there. "An earthquake near 
>>> London" was not something I expected to hear. Glad you're OK, though.
>> Well, apparently it's "the biggest earthquake in almost 25 years" (so 
>> that's, what, 24 years then?)
>>
>> And I guess Lincolnshire is near to London for suitable definition of 
>> "near"... ;-)
> 
> I was at the epicenter of the Nisqually earthquake in 2001 (6.8),
> had a hutch tip over and break the glassware and doors.
> It sounded like a train went through the house.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nisqually_Earthquake
> I was taking a bath at the time, and ended up standing there
> dripping wet in just my undies =) 
> 
I was in queenstown during the 7.1 earthquake of August 22nd 2003. About 
100 km from the epicenter. It was IIRC just after midnight, lying in 
bed. I first felt something like a truck passing by. Could not be 
because we were in a dead end street. It gradually built up until we 
were shaking 20-30 cm in every direction in our bed. It felt like being 
in a bus with bad suspension on a very bad road driving much to fast, 
only in bed. Because it was so gradually, when we decided that this was 
too much and that we should go outside, the floor was shaking so much 
that that was not an option. Next day when I got outside, I looked 
around at the mountains and realized that they too had been shaking the 
same amount in every direction. I knew that earthquakes often happen 
miles below ground and that they must move a bit of rock, but standing 
there suddenly made me realize what that really meant.

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