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    Earthquake!

    I think we just had one in Neath Port Talbot.

    #2
    Aye. I am ten miles west, was in the loo so missed all the excitement. Epicentre near Bristol / Bath apparently.

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      #3
      Felt in Shrewsbury.

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        #4
        That's my second earthquake. Felt the 1990 one too, which I see is called the Bishops Castle Earthquake.

        Bishops Castle makes Coleford look like Las Vegas. It's funny to think of it being the centre of anything.

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          #5
          My art teacher ran out of the class shouting what the fuck is going on during the Bishop's Castle earthquake. It was a momentous event for a 13/14 year old.

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            #6
            Wikipedia says epicentre in Swansea

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              #7
              Nothing felt in Wolverhampton.

              Is it down to fracking?

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                #8
                Not in Swansea. Moratorium in Wales on fracking.

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by Etienne View Post
                  Wikipedia says epicentre in Swansea
                  This site says Clydach. (Not the one by Abergavenny).

                  https://earthquaketrack.com/quakes/2...-04-utc-4-2-11

                  That's very near me. No wonder if felt stronger than Bishop's Castle 1990. I was in Cheltenham for that one.

                  Whole street came out for this one.

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                    #10
                    Presumably I’ve been stitched up by fake news.

                    Damn the twitterati and their bogus earthquake websites.

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                      #11
                      Originally posted by Etienne View Post
                      Felt in Shrewsbury.
                      Funny I felt nothing.

                      What time was this?

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                        #12
                        About 2.30. We were upstairs which might have played a part.

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                          #13
                          My daughter's in Oxford; didn't feel it.

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                            #14
                            My wife felt it in our house in Cardiff. I was off in a car park listening to the last minutes of Sheffield Wednesday v Swansea before paying to enter the caged off area the match I was going to was being played in.

                            My wife thought it was some numpty revving a truck in the street.

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                              #15
                              I've slept through every earthquake I've ever been in. I'm pretty sure daytime quakes are fake news.

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                                #16
                                You'd have got woken up by our dogs, if not by the earthquake.

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                                  #17
                                  4.4 on the Richter Scale apparently. Biggest one in Britain by some margin this year.

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                                    #18
                                    Although the year is only 6 weeks old, thinking about it.

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                                      #19
                                      Originally posted by Etienne View Post
                                      About 2.30. We were upstairs which might have played a part.
                                      That might not have been the earthquake.

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                                        #20
                                        "We" was me and my work colleagues. There was none of that going on. I don't work for Oxfam.

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                                          #21
                                          There was one in New Hampshire last week.

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                                            #22
                                            I missed it entirely, despite having been sitting around in the Vale of Glamorgan at the time. I think I must have been watching either the women's skeleton final or a rerun of the OAR-USA ice hockey at that precise hour, so can only surmise that either it coincided with a big moment of Olympic excitement on the screen or else I'm peculiarly insensate to small earthquakes. I experienced a few when I lived in Wellington (NZ) – the biggest a Richter 5.0 – so it's not like I don't know what one feels like, either. Shame.

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                                              #23
                                              One friend has posted before and after photos of Llanelli town centre. Another has quoted reports of thousands of pounds worth of improvements being made.

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                                                #24
                                                Boom boom! Applause for that hoary old chestnut.

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                                                  #25
                                                  Facebook - where old jokes go to die.

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