Earthquake? Twitter knows best
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Our house shook for a good 20 seconds at about 12:56am - windows and all. I was awake, but it woke the cats and my better half who were sleeping upstairs. It didn’t set any car alarms off, so I’m guessing no real damage done.
I twittered first, but Nick beat me to the blog. Without twitter I’d have thought I was going mad, Nick confirmed it “podnosh mine too. 6M Ago” and:
“orangejon wonders if he’s hallucinating or if there was really just an earthquake. Either that or the house is falling down… 5M Ago”
I wonder how you measure where the epi-centre might be?
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on 27 February 2008 at 1:17 am Nick Booth wrote:
First is not everything - right is everything. What I love is that it worked as a news service. It told me what I needed to know when I needed to know it - i.e. was i the only one who felt that?
on 27 February 2008 at 1:20 am Keith wrote:
It was strange, I was using my pc at the time and started shaking. I live in erdington and I hear my friend in Kingstanding had it before me.
Strange
on 27 February 2008 at 1:24 am Nunes wrote:
Thought my mate was furiously masturbating…he’s a big guy. no pun intended.
on 27 February 2008 at 1:30 am bounder wrote:
The epicentre is here according to this site. Nearest towns are Lissington and Holton cum Beckering - which proves this is a collective dream - or a Two Ronnies sketch.
on 27 February 2008 at 2:08 am jay wrote:
me and the mrs was sitting watching tv, i started to hear creaks from one side of the room, and then the top corner in the other end, then after a few seconds of thinking we were being taken over by mice, the whole flat started shaking violently, we live in south Yardly Hey mills
on 27 February 2008 at 2:32 am joely wrote:
How did I not feel it? My mate lives round the corner from me and was chatting to me on msn and was like…did u feel that?? I was like what u on about ha
on 27 February 2008 at 8:09 am catnip wrote:
yup, as bounder’s “better half” I can confirm that I was indeed woken up in my bed which was shaking like a jelly and also by the sound of loose debris falling down the (no longer used) chimney. The cats seemed a bit nonplussed though, I thought animals were supposed to be more in tune with these things!
on 27 February 2008 at 8:20 am catnip wrote:
oh yeah, forgot to say also that this was pretty much the same experience I had as in 1984, when I was staying at my gran’s in Liverpool and was woken up by a shaking bed, think it was quite a bit later in the morning that time, it was light anyway from what I recall.
on 27 February 2008 at 1:24 am Podnosh Blog : High Fibre Podcasting » Archive » Twitter and the Birmingham Earthquake. wrote:
[...] thought I was going mad – but only if Jon is too. We both know that twitter knows best and (thanks again jon) the Dutch are tracking the story for [...]
on 29 February 2008 at 11:57 pm Podnosh Blog : High Fibre Podcasting » Archive » I hope you are not a journalist… wrote:
[...] I shared with Jon Bounds and Joanna Geary (and before you reach for the irritating cliche yes the earth did move for all 3 of us us – which is why we were blogging at 2am – partly to reassure each other that we were not [...]