Ailz Slept Through It

[poliphilo]

A sort of rustling, shuffling, falling down noise. Like a house of cards collapsing. It wasn't repeated so I decided it was probably something the rabbits had done and I could check it out in the morning. 

I went back to sleep.

And now I know it must have been the earthquake. Biggest in a quarter century. 5.2 on the Richter scale.

Comments

[pondhopper.livejournal.com]

I guess it depends on where you live. I've heard from friends further south who actually felt their homes shake.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

It could have been the shock that woke me up. According to the newspaper parts of Manchester were quite badly shaken.

[msjann65.livejournal.com]

We get them occasionally here in Massachusetts, too. Usually a feeling of unease and a sound like a distant explosion. Once back in the early sixties my little daughter and I had gone to a neighboring town for the day, returned home and found the kitchen cabinets doors wide open and some dishes and glasses on the floor. We were later told by our landlord that there had been an earthquake. It was not felt in the neighboring town at all.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

This quake seems to have been felt all through the country. The epicentre was in Lincolnshire- just across the hills from here.

[clindau.livejournal.com]

Just read the news online and ran right over to my LJ flist to see if you're okay. And you are.

Somehow, I don't equate earthquakes with England. Of course, there's a great big faultline running through the US that would wreak major havoc should it ever awaken. The New Madrid fault, if you're curious.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Thanks for your concern. Amazingly it doesn't seem as if anyone was hurt.

Apparently we have several hundred earthquakes a year- most of them too small to be noticed- except by the seisometers.

[mummm.livejournal.com]

I'm sure glad that nothing came crashing down on you two! (or the bunnies)

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

I don't think there was any serious damage in our part of the world

Those must be...

[jubal51394.livejournal.com]

SOME RABBITS! ;)

Re: Those must be...

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

They may only be little but they can make a heck of a lot of noise. If one of them stamps its foot in anger (on the wooden floor) it's like a pistol going off.