Yesterday morning, at about 8.15, there was an earthquake in the southern English county of Kent measuring 4.3 on the Richter Scale. It happened under the English Channel off Folkestone, where there was apparently some shift in the plates. As you can see from the news pictures, the damage was slight, though some buildings have been deemed too dangerous to return to.
My cousin June and her husband Mick were having a cup of tea in bed, and each thought the other had made the bed move.
So there they were in bed when the earth moved, and all they were doing was drinking tea!
Well I tried to leave a post on Molly (my 3rd since yesterday) and once again it didn't take...so, yes, I heard about this quake! I was so surprised b/c I never thought England was on any fault lines. Got an email from Debs D'Onofrio and she said that Kent always seems to get the worst of it, be it rain, wind or snow!
ReplyDeleteGlad your cousins are ok. my brother and family lived in California for a while, they hated the quakes, said you never got over your fear and would jump if planes went over to low.
ReplyDeleteWe had one in Derbyshire a few years ago. It was such a WEIRD feeling. I happened to be sitting on the floor at the time and the noise and feeling were like there was a train passing underneath the house...which, when you don't have a subway in your part of the world, is a little disconcerting! Glad to hear your family are OK anyway, and I gather no one was hurt. From the map in the newspaper this morning, the quake originated in France. They've never forgiven us for Agincourt have they?!
ReplyDeleteThat's scary. I hope they stay away from here.
ReplyDeleteyes very scary and very dangerous i feel so sorry for the people who live in states or cities where there are earthquakes hurricanes tornados it's terrible
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ReplyDeletegeez, that was unexpected wasn't it? earthquakes are scary.
SO glad that you and yours are okay, Val and that damage was minimal. I imagine that those things are quite freaky and scary.
ReplyDeleteI have always wanted to visit California, but I am scared that as soon as I set foot there, the whole state will quake and fall off! It would be just my luck, you know! There is a fault in Western Tennesse that shifts every now and again, but luckily they are always small quakes and we never feel a thing in Nashville.
Well it is scary, there's no doubt about that. We were living in SF only 2 months when Loma Prieta brought us to our knees in 1989(literally, we were crawling across our pitching floor into a doorway). It took months to get over it; and even then any aftershock or minor quake scared us to death. Up here we had the rather large Nisqually quake in 2001 but that didn't bother us as much.
ReplyDeleteSurreal isn't it, but thank G-d no one was hurt and your family are safe...
ReplyDeleteMy experience of one was, of all places, in Eilat in Israel...
If I was in bed and it happened here, I would have thought my dream fodder had turned to reality... oh well a girl can dream.
My sister lives in Sandwich, Kent, but the earth did not move for her!
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