no damage I hope matee.

no shakes over here in the UK...well...unless Rik Waller jumps anyway (google him)

d_r... Are you on North or South Island? I am assuming North but just wondering.

We had one earthquake about, I forget, something like five maybe six years ago. I live in NYC and it is not known to be an earthquake prone area. However there is a fault that runs on a sort of north-south axis known as the Berkshire fault and it rumbled a bit back then. Not very high on the richter, I am pretty sure that it was well below 4. Anyway, I slept through it but a lot of my friends said they heard a lot of rumbling over night and a lot of the dogs and cats had been going nuts.

in the uk shakes are common (esp after a hard night in the pub )
seriously though there are many every year ,but they are almost all so minor that they are unnoticable
on a very rare occasion (about once every few years) one will be big enough to rattle a few tea cups
but on a global scale still so minor to be worthy of little other than a few lines in the local press

In Scotland thanks to the mining here we have to suffer well over 50 quakes a day over the country. They are too minor to notice though!

@ Indy - I live in wellington, not far off a major fault line.

There was no damage done, it was about 4 - 5 on the richter
(just a guess i could be wrong) but it only lasted 2 seconds,
and it was followed by 3 aftershocks. (ones that i could feel
anyway) We get shocks we can feel about every 4 months. Im
still abit scared of them though 'cause theres supposed to be
a big one comming within the next 50 years or so.

@heltak its not just mines there are major faults though they have become very inactive
the main ones run along the great glen and another from ailsa craig up through dumbarton, balmaha etc

I wish I lived somewhere interesting...
The UK weather's just boring- constant rain but never any flood, always cold but no snow (this year was a very strange exception), always windy but no hurricanes....


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None in Ga US. I don't think our buildings could handle them. California, thats another thing. Get get lots of them.

We do, however, have a little area, about 20 miles away, know as hurrican ally. They seem to like that area.

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In Memory Of WLB

Edited by - Finalday on 4/2/2004 7:59:40 AM

@corsair try the western isles hurricane force winds arent that rare there

In fact, for all ukers we had an earth quake which was 5 or 5.5 on the richter scale. It woke my parents up (live in Warwickshire...not far from Staffordshire (nods at Taw ), and it also put a crack in the chimney breast at home. We have experienced two earthquakes of that kind of size in the last 14 years. Okay - nothing amazing, but still earthquakes! One person was killed in an earthquake once in the UK..................a tile fell from a roof and hit him on the head.....which killed him!

I have never experienced an earthquake here in Aus. There have been one or two barely perceptible tremors from earthquakes in Asia over the years, but nothing worth mentioning. I keep saying that Aus. is a boring place .

I live right next to a really well known fault line here in Utah. I'm still waiting for the big one. According to scientists, there's supposed to a really major earthquake every 500 years or so. Apparently we're overdue for a quake right now since we passed the 500 year mark about 5 years ago. Stupid scientists.

"Evil will always triumph because good is dumb!"

Not much where I live in Aus, But I Recall 1 tiny one a few years back!!!

Aus? Another fellow Australian! Where are you from? (Sorry to go OT).