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Just had a 10 second rumble and the windows rattled. Felt like an earthquake to me. Although they are rare here, there have been about 6 small ones in about 20 years that you could 'feel', the worst causing chimney stacks to fall. Dunno..... 
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We had a slightly bigger one (5) yesterday evening, an even bigger one a few days back and an even bigger one last month (6.5) but we are used to them (sort of) since we are right on a quake belt (since ancient times). Irritating isn't it? 
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Mick, I heard about the earthquake on the news and was thinking about you. Glad to see no official reports of injury. I hope your bike didn't fall over. I'd put some padding underneath it just in case. 
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The weather and possibly the earthquake affected my inbound loads tonight. The M62 was jammed up also, due to wagons being blown over... all my loads arrived 3hrs late, boy did the sh1t hit the fan when they allll turned up at once :O
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The wife said she felt the house shake down here in Milton Keynes.
I slept through it, didn't even register on my richter scale.
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Never felt a thing, Oop North. Hope no body had any problems and all are safe no matter where you are 
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That was the prototype thunderbird in hinckley doing a dyno run.
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That was the prototype thunderbird in hinckley doing a dyno run.
 
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I woke up at 730 realising I'd not had my painkillers before bed....flicked the tv on and saw it on the news. So got up, took painkillers, saw my bike was still upright and went back to bed.
As you can tell it didn't wake me up either. However that could be due to the 2 1/2 pints of Guinness down the pub last night!
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I woke up at 730 realising I'd not had my painkillers before bed....flicked the tv on and saw it on the news. So got up, took painkillers, saw my bike was still upright and went back to bed.
As you can tell it didn't wake me up either. However that could be due to the 2 1/2 pints of Guinness down the pub last night!
My kinda girl, I usually have to feed 'em a couple of roofies to get that kind of lack of response. 
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I woke up at 730 realising I'd not had my painkillers before bed.... ///
However that could be due to the 2 1/2 pints of Guinness down the pub last night!
If you woke up at 7-30 what time did you go to the pub? and not enough booze to negate the pain. I would recomend a later finish in the pub and much more booze. This will greatly reduce the need for pain killers .....until the following morning by which time the pain will spread to cover head as well back.
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Never felt a thing, Oop North.
It rumbled and the rattled the windows in Blackpool ... you must have been out cold
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Here's what the BBC says about it, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/7266136.stmThat was pretty strong, especially for an area where earthquakes aren't all that common. Good that there wasn't a lot more damage.
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fast asleep me but the other half was up watching tv. the large indoor 6 ft plant started shaking only her and the cat in there. thought it was the cat but that was fast asleep on other side of room. spooked her right out  should go to bed early i say
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felt like someone kicked my bed, woke me up, bike alarm came on outside
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slept straight through it!! Although girl at work was moaning about her neighbours, as she said the wardrobe kept banging the wall , made us all laugh, as we told her about the quake, she hadn't a clue.  
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The wife said she felt the house shake down here in Milton Keynes.
I slept through it, didn't even register on my richter scale.
My wife said she felt the Earth move last night but we are in the states ....
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The wife said she felt the house shake down here in Milton Keynes.
I slept through it, didn't even register on my richter scale.
My wife said she felt the Earth move last night but we are in the states ....
Bravo!  Yup, that was me behind the couch.
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