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« on: February 17, 2018, 15:34:12 »

Or was it the result of my 900th post. Really going to have to come up trumps for four figures !
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« Reply #1 on: February 17, 2018, 20:32:37 »

i was out on a walk south of Bath and didn't feel the tremor at all. However, an hour or so earlier I had watched a metal bar across a field gate vibrating quite wildly for some minutes. As the weather was still and there didn't seem to be any other reason for it to happen, I did wonder then whether there might be an earth tremor taking place.
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« Reply #2 on: February 17, 2018, 21:02:46 »

I was in Waitrose Sidmouth and didn't feel a thing.
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« Reply #3 on: February 17, 2018, 21:24:31 »

Felt it in Swindon.  First time I have experienced an earth tremor.
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« Reply #4 on: February 17, 2018, 21:26:04 »

I’ve been laid up for a couple of days with an ear infection resulting in bouts of Vertigo, now I don’t know if I experienced another Vertigo moment or the Tremor! I was lying flat in bed and the light shade started moving
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« Reply #5 on: February 17, 2018, 21:29:04 »

I’ve been laid up for a couple of days with an ear infection resulting in bouts of Vertigo,

Yuk - get well soon.
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« Reply #6 on: February 17, 2018, 21:34:46 »

Felt in Melksham. Shrugs shoulders - felt similar a number of times in California, but we did wonder if it really was an earthquake.   Also felt like armourments landing in practise on Salisbury Plain, except we don't live across there any more.
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« Reply #7 on: February 17, 2018, 21:38:39 »

Felt nowt in Almondsbury at work today but the motorway was probably more seismically relevant.
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« Reply #8 on: February 17, 2018, 21:47:17 »

On a pacer in Manchester. Enough said  Grin Grin
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« Reply #9 on: February 17, 2018, 22:54:00 »

Watching a recording of Lizzie Yarnold so we did not notice any extra bumps.
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« Reply #10 on: February 18, 2018, 08:53:21 »

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-43097113
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« Reply #11 on: February 18, 2018, 10:53:50 »

I was in Waitrose Sidmouth and didn't feel a thing.

People who shop in Waitrose generally don't  Wink
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« Reply #12 on: February 18, 2018, 11:12:40 »

Some panic buying noticed in Westbury park branch yesterday, but that was only because I'd run out of sun dried tomatoes!.
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« Reply #13 on: February 18, 2018, 15:19:58 »

I felt it, I was using the toilet at the time and for a moment wondered what had happened.
It frightened my cat who ran and hid under a bed for over an hour.

Neighbours suffered from damage to a chimney, but it was already damaged and due for rebuilding.
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« Reply #14 on: February 18, 2018, 16:07:29 »

I felt it, I was using the toilet at the time and for a moment wondered what had happened.




....................were the two events connected?  Shocked
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