Just felt a bit of an 'Earthquake' me thinks @ 08.45 am this morning. In Manchester.
Any 1 else feel it...?
Earthquake...?
Just felt a bit of an 'Earthquake' me thinks @ 08.45 am this morning. In Manchester.
Any 1 else feel it...?
felt nowt over in gods county
maybe it was the mrs getting rid of last nights curry
Was in Salford at 8.45 and didn't feel a thing.
There was deffo something. I've since heared a few reports on our local radio station.
On the bbc news site
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2345639.stm
yeah, bbc r5 was giving it out when i went to bed on the 9:30 news
Just had another one at 12:40.
SEISMIC ALERT: MANCHESTER 21 OCTOBER 2002 07:45 UTC 3.2 ML
Today BGS have received felt reports from residents throughout Greater Manchester of a felt earthquake at 07:45 UTC. The felt reports described "whole house shook", "I was alarmed", "furniture moved" and "windows and doors rattled". This event was followed by a magnitude 2.3 ML aftershock, which occurred some 19 minutes later.
The following preliminary information is available for the mainshock:
DATE : 21 October 2002
ORIGIN TIME : 07:45 15.8s UTC
LAT/LONG : 53.48° North / 2.19° West
GRID REF : 387.0 kmE / 397.6 kmN
DEPTH : 3.4 km
MAGNITUDE : 3.2 ML
LOCALITY : Manchester, Greater Manchester
Today's event locates some 14 km west of the magnitude 2.6 ML Manchester earthquake, which occurred on 5 December 1987, and was felt with intensities of 4 EMS and also locates approximately 30 km ENE of the magnitude 4.5 ML Widnes event, which occurred on 3 November 1976. Today's earthquake locates approximately 105 km north of the Dudley earthquake, which occurred on 22 September 2002, with a magnitude of 5.0 ML.
from the bgs
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