I am from California where these quakes get people to run outside in fear of aftershocks or building collapse, and that's exactly what I did.
The comments below have not been moderated. ', English literature student Katie Blackamore, 21, of Canterbury Christ Church University, also said: 'I thought someone was shaking me to get up and then realised the whole bloody house is shaking.
Another, posted by Trumpton Police, showed an overturned plastic chair in a garden, with the caption: 'Devastation in Kent after overnight earthquake. I kept checking online to see if it was due to some sort of earthquake and it turns out it was. It's one of the scariest experiences I've ever witnessed. "All attempts to predict earthquakes have, however, been generally considered as failures and it is unlikely that accurate prediction will occur in the near future. Last updated: Thu, 05 Nov 2020 07:40:00 (UTC) This list contains information about background, tectonic earthquake activity in and around the British Isles. I was woken around 3am by the whole place shaking and what sounded like a squadron of paratroopers running through the house. Meanwhile, Claire Edwards, from Herne Bay, said she felt the tremors while breastfeeding her four-month-old daughter.
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which can be detected by dense local monitoring networks. ', 'During the night I could feel that earthquake. 7.0 to 7.9: Major earthquake. Residents in the south east, particularly Kent, told how they were hit by tremors just before 3am , with the epicentre of the earthquake located just two miles west of Ramsgate. I went on social media to make sure it wasn't all just a dream of too much sauce.
Earthquake information for europe. Scary. It means a gap of two steps - from five to seven - represent an earthquake nearly 1,000 times stronger.
This British Geological Survey map shows where people reported the tremors in the South East.
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Earthquakes often strike at the boundaries of the major crustal plates and along fault lines.
Play it now. ', 'I was up making a cup of tea early this morning. I'd just walked into the lounge and the floor shook and there was a loud tremor for about three seconds, although it seemed longer.
Now I am wide awake and no doubt it will be the topic of conversation today.
A factory roof is reported to have collapsed at Staines, Surrey.
"Fortunately we do not live on the plate edges - for example the San Andreas fault in California can actually be seen at the surface, but the faults in the UK are blind and most earthquakes happen at a depth of between 5km and 25km. You could hear stuff falling over throughout the house.
', 'I was woken just before 3am by my wardrobe door banging inexplicably for several seconds. 'The faults in the ground could be causing the seismic activity, and if they are going to be delving very, very deep down into faulty land to get the gas or the oil out there is a very serious danger of starting a lot more earthquakes.'.
© 2020 BBC. One of the scale of this morning's only happen every two or three years.". Kent Police was inundated with calls about the incident, with the force taking to its official Twitter account to confirm it was aware of the earthquake. Those quakes likely to cause the most destruction measure 7.0 and above. Julie Wassmer, of the East Kent Against Fracking group, said the ground is vulnerable to earthquakes because of the coal mining industry. Dozens of people took to social media to report their experience of the tremors, with claims of houses shaking for ten seconds and dogs and birds left distressed. A Nepalese woman searches in the rubble of her collapsed house for her family members. The biggest quakes normally observed in Britain are around the 4.0 to 5.0 mark on the Richter scale, which means they are often felt but rarely cause damage. My heart was beating so fast, it really scared me - I still feel shaken up an hour later. Best-selling White House author MICHAEL WOLFF claims it's the result of one man's epic and dangerous delusion, Majority conservative Supreme Court to rule on overturning Obamacare today - in move that could leave 20 million uninsured and let COVID-19 be classed as pre-existing condition to deny coverage, Trump fires Pentagon Secretary Mark Esper by tweet - who lashes back that he wasn't a 'yes man': President hands role to Chris Miller and says he'll do a 'great job', F-16 fighter pilot was killed when his ejection seat malfunctioned and parachute failed to deploy during crash landing, Mike Pompeo goes to war with Iran's Supreme Leader on Twitter as he accuses him of 'personally stealing hundreds of millions of dollars' after the cleric said the US election showed the 'ugly face of liberal democracy', Eli Lilly to start immediately shipping coronavirus antibody drug after emergency FDA approval - in second COVID-19 breakthrough in 24 hours following Pfizer vaccine, Biden's coronavirus adviser Dr. Zeke Emanuel once argued it's not worth living past 75 - despite president-elect being 77 - and suggested only 'younger people who are yet to live a complete life' should get a vaccine in a flu pandemic, When will the COVID-19 vaccine be rolled out and who will get it first?
It was a constant rumbling during the ten-second duration as I sat bolt upright from my sleep, wondering what the heck was happening. It lasted for about ten seconds.
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