Yes, I too am an earthquake survivor, the one in question being the Dudley earthquake of 2002.
The 2002 Dudley earthquake was an earthquake registering 4.7 on the Richter scale that struck the Midlands of England, on 22 September 2002 23:53 UTC (23 September, 00:53 local time) and lasted approximately 20 seconds.
It was the largest earthquake to hit the UK since the 1990 Bishop's Castle earthquake, but there were no injuries and only minor structural damage. The epicentre was located at the junction of High Arcal Road and Himley Road (grid reference SO898913), in the borough of South Staffordshire, which is just outside the boundaries of the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley and approximately two miles outside Dudley Town Centre.
The tremor was felt over an area of 260,000 square kilometres (100,387 sq mi), including Wales, Liverpool, Derby, Yorkshire, Wiltshire and London. The furthest felt reports came from Carlisle in the north, and Truro in the South.
An aftershock of magnitude 2.7 occurred on 23 September at 03:32 UTC (04:32 local time), and was felt locally throughout Dudley and in Birmingham.[/quote]
I was in bed at the time and hung on to my mattress as the quake struck! The above makes it sound quite dramatic but it was little more than a rumble and shaking for a few seconds. Very unsettling though... can't imagine what it must've been like in Wobblyville for the real quakes
The epicentre was very close, only about a mile from my house and I drove past that road every morning on the way to work. I was working shifts at the council's IT operations centre in Dudley at the time so arrived there only a few hours later. The police station was behind our building and they told us about thirty people had turned up in their pyjamas after the quake asking what they should do.
Perhaps it's just as well the UK hardly ever has earthquakes...
Ade
Posted: Mon Aug 26, 2013 3:41 am
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