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Did you feel the earthquake this evening?

I was working at the time. I felt my seat move and heard a slight rumble beneath me. I phoned a couple of colleagues and asked them if they had felt it but I got a daft "er, what" response.

The BBC has reported that the earth tremor was of a 3.7 magnitude and it's epicentre was in Leeds.

I wonder if it was underneath the Chevin near to LBA as it's a known fault-line.
 
Well, 20 months after you posted this Aviador, I have finally read your question and I hate unanswered questions, to here is my answer.

No!

Now I am disappointed, as I find them terrifying, but somehow exciting, although I hasten to add that is applicable only for tremors. I can imagine nothing more frightening than a full blown Earthquake and have had many nightmares about them. My sister and brother in law were in Christchurch at the time of the big one and she has also experienced many major tremors when
working in Tokyo, and having listened to her experiences, I really don't fancy them at all.

The best I have experienced was on the Costa del Sol, when we had a series of tremors lasting about 10 minutes. You could hear the sound travelling up the coast towards where we were staying, rattling everything as it passed and moving away up the coast. That happened about a dozen times, but it took 3 or 4 before we realised what was happening and actually bothered to get out of bed - fast!
 
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Better late than never as they say.

The worst I have experienced was in Turkey although everybody in the hotel I was in carried on as normal as if nothing had happened. The second worst earthquake I have felt was in Manchester. Everything shook as if a freight train was going past. Semeiologists later declared it to be an earthquake swarm which is usually associated with volcano's! So we might have a 'Yellowstone' closer to us than we might think. I have probably felt several earthquakes during my life but on most occasions nobody else seemed to notice them but they were later confirmed on the news.
 
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A couple of years back there was a TV documentary over here in the UK about Yellowstone and apparently there are numerous "super volcano" sites around the world, in fact I think it mentioned at least two here in the UK. Apparently it's only a matter of time before one of them blows again but it could be hundreds, even thousands of years before it happens.
 
BSL-2km said:
http://quakes.globalincidentmap.com/

I regularly have a peep at this site, amazing how many tremblers there are globally per day...

Plenty of talk on the interweb of big movements coming , California and 'Ring of Fire' in general... Yellowstone super volcano building some decent pressure too... :crazy:

That's a cracking site, it's shocking how many there are each day.

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A couple of years back there was a TV documentary over here in the UK about Yellowstone and apparently there are numerous "super volcano" sites around the world, in fact I think it mentioned at least two here in the UK. Apparently it's only a matter of time before one of them blows again but it could be hundreds, even thousands of years before it happens.

I remember watching that, from what I recall it's pretty much game over when that blows.
 
They're still waiting for The Big One in California not to mention the Yellowstone National Park where a super volcano is predicted at some point in time that would change the face of Earth forever.

Fortunately I wasn't aware of that when I visited Yellowstone about 15 years ago.
 
Yellowstone is the famous one but there are these "super volcano" everywhere, even in the UK apparently.

Considering their destructive potential, it's a good thing super-eruptions are so rare – the last one happened in Toba, Indonesia, about 74,000 years ago. Geologists think these eruptions take place about every 50,000 years, which suggests one is overdue.

About 40 supervolcanoes are dotted across the globe. There are two in Britain – one in Glencoe, Scotland, the other in Scafell in the Lake District. However, most supervolcanoes, including those in Britain, burned out long ago.http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/program ... icle.shtml
 

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