Earthquake in East Kent

Aneechik · 22/05/15 - 03:17

Anyone else just feel this?

Lots of people talking about it on Twitter. Well, about five people but that's lots for 3am. This site has some details, apparently was magnitude 4.3.

mw0390 · 22/05/15 - 03:23

Yea felt it just before 3am scared the crap out of me thought the flat below was on fire of had an explosion

[Deleted User] · 22/05/15 - 03:24

Yup!
Info someone just gave me was that it was closest to margate, about 10 miles out to sea. I don't know how true that is.
Like you have I just posted a thread about it too.

MRSgotobed · 22/05/15 - 03:28

OH called from shift at hospital-apparently an earthquake in Canterbury according to A&E staff there, we got the aftershock. Scared the shit out of me, not to mention the cat.

Aneechik · 22/05/15 - 03:29

I forgot to post the link to the site that has details.
http://www.product-reviews.net/2015/05/22/earthquake-in-kent-london-wakes-up-twitter/

4.3 is quite big for the UK.

Aneechik · 22/05/15 - 03:33

2km west of Ramsgate, and magnitude 4.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us10002bap#general_summary

MRSgotobed · 22/05/15 - 03:38

Aneechik wrote: »

I forgot to post the link to the site that has details.
http://www.product-reviews.net/2015/05/22/earthquake-in-kent-london-wakes-up-twitter/

4.3 is quite big for the UK.

Ah, thanks.

Yes, that was quite big enough too.

Radiomaniac · 22/05/15 - 03:40

Just heard about it on the radio.

Aneechik · 22/05/15 - 03:49

Press have picked up on it now.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/579119/Kent-earthquake-Margate-tremors-Canterbury-Herne-Bay-Whitstable-Thanet-Dover-Deal
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3092179/Earthquake-measuring-4-0-Richter-scale-wakes-Kent-residents-houses-shake-four-seconds.html

tiacat · 22/05/15 - 03:51

Yep we are in Broadstairs and the house shook, apparently it's a mag 4

koantemplation · 22/05/15 - 03:56

Hmm wonder if it is because of fracking?

Ed R.Marley · 22/05/15 - 04:09

Wow 4.3.

I here the RAF are sending helicopters as we speak

[Deleted User] · 22/05/15 - 07:00

lucky it did not set off the wreck of the SS Richard Montgomery nearby...only a matter of time unless something is done about it.
http://www.ssrichardmontgomery.com

[Deleted User] · 22/05/15 - 07:20

Ron_Angel wrote: »

lucky it did not set off the wreck of the SS Richard Montgomery nearby...only a matter of time unless something is done about it.
http://www.ssrichardmontgomery.com

We spent a lot of timebon Sheppey as children as we had family there and I still remember the masts sticking out of the water.

soulboy77 · 22/05/15 - 07:26

Reported on social media that people felt it in Essex as well.

Rob1985 · 22/05/15 - 07:40

Yep woke me up, the bed was shaking and the noise like thunder.

CravenHaven · 22/05/15 - 08:05

maybe it's God's way of telling them life in Kent is too cosy?

whitecliffe · 22/05/15 - 08:05

I felt the bed shake but thought it was part of my dream before waking up. I did fleetingly think it may have been a quake, we have had them before but that soon went from my mind. It was only a text from my sister this morning that I started to connect things.

boniver · 22/05/15 - 08:07

My hubby felt it but I slept through it, I feel disappointed that I missed out!

He said it felt like a big lorry going past but wondered if it might have been an earthquake.

whitecliffe · 22/05/15 - 08:11

CravenHaven wrote: »

maybe it's God's way of telling them life in Kent is too cosy?

I assume you have never been to Kent.

housegirl · 22/05/15 - 08:35

Ron_Angel wrote: »

lucky it did not set off the wreck of the SS Richard Montgomery nearby...only a matter of time unless something is done about it.
http://www.ssrichardmontgomery.com

OMG never knew about this, it a disaster waiting to happen.

After 68 years ( 20 August 2012 ) at last somebody has begun to see a little sense. Realising the threat of terrorists blowing up the wreck is real, and possible. There are now believed to be 24 hour land and sea "armed?" police patrolling the Sheppey coast, but for how long?
Although it seems to have been kept by the government out of the mainline news for political reasons, and lack of a viable solution at present, or it seems in the near future. The wrecks contents must be made safe or removed before a new international hub airport in the Thames estuary could ever even be considered let alone built.

A new serious risk interesting problem has arisen, as the National Grid LNG storage on the nearby isle of Grain, has the largest one million cu metre storage capacity of Liquid Natural Gas in Europe with the largest surface silos in the world, each bigger than the Albert Hall, that would be instantly demolished by the Montgomery blast and vaporize the gas to mix with four times its weight of oxygen in the air and produce an explosive blast equivalent of 144 Hiroshima bombs, without the radiation. Destroying everything for many miles around in the UK and Europe. with the resulting loss of many millions of lives, According to Explosives expert Mike Barker M.B.E. (Bomb disposal).

muggins14 · 22/05/15 - 08:38

Over the last 15 years there seem to have been a lot more earthquakes felt here in the UK than I can ever recall being mentioned in the years before. At least that's how it seems.