Earthquake in Kent

[Bunny]

Just seen all this stuff on the news and no-one is saying anything. Is there a power station down there that might have gone bang ?

[Fudge Cake]

im from kent 20mins away from folkestone, im just listening to the news now. They think it is a tremer rather then an explosion.

[Bunny]

if it has been an earthquake it's been a bad one, I still remember the 1979 Boxing day one up here, scared me sh*tless, I was only 5, was terrified in the dark the next night being driven home from my nanna's as i thought the road might crack open and we'd fall down it.

[Bovabell]

Just tried calling my dad but no reply :unsure:
Hope everything is ok.

[rach04]

earth tremor still going

[bonjovibabe]

When did it start?

[rach04]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6602677.stm


according to my mate you can still feel it shaking although not as bad

[Bunny]

this must have been close to the surface if power and phones are out

[Bunny]

hope those of you that live down there don't have too much damage to your houses

[Bunny]

An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.7 has shaken southern England.

[Bunny]

wow it's been as bad as the one we had up here and that caused a lot of damage to houses

[MrTempleDene]

good grief

that look quite serious, hope there's no casualties.

[Bunny]

please go check you chimneys peeps who live down there. I still remember the fire service checking them here on a stretch of one of the main roads here

[duck_egg]

oh no!!! hope you're all ok down in the south guys....i'm flicking the news on now to see........xxxxx

[wkdfraggle]

Oooh how scary! I have just put the news on.
I remember the Manchester ones a few years ago. Horrible - could see the walls twisting at work!

Simone
xxx

[Bunny]

yeah I'd forgotten about all those one you had there Simone, that went on for a week or two didn't it

[smirnoff]

we are about 1 1/2 hours away from there...

hoping everything is ok, although it looks bad....

[Bizywizy]

well I didnt feel it.

It was only 5 mins down the road too apparantly. Thank goodness is some respects.

Makes me laugh though that eurotunnel is not affected. kinda worrying that Folkestone was allegedly affected badly yet eurotunnel is ok. I suppose its because the earth tremor is under ground rather than under the sea.

Its mainly folkestone, dover that are affected I beleive but ive seen reports that it was felt in essex and suffolk too.

[wkdfraggle]

yeah I'd forgotten about all those one you had there Simone, that went on for a week or two didn't it

Yeah there were loads in the nights for about a week and a half. The main one was on a monday and as i say i was in work. I still remember the rumbling noise now.
Me and Arron had a few nightmares about them.
I think they were 3.9 on the scale so not quite as strong as the one today.
You dont expect them in England do you!

Simone
xxx

[Jen]

OMG http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23394236-details/Residents+evacuated+as+earthquake+hits+Kent/article.do

[Jen]

Hope everyone is ok, scary stuff

[Emsickle]

Oh my! Scary stuff! Hope there are no casualties from this

[Whassat]

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[Ravenfire]

Must be very scary! DH was in Manchester when there was one there and he said its very frightening. The after shocks can also be quite bad.

[Fudge Cake]

my mum has just spoken to some people down the road and they say they felt it here in ashford about 8:15. I never felt anything and everything here seems to be ok.

hope everyone in folkestone is ok and safe, it sounds like there is a lot of chaso as no one really knows what to do.

[KeznJay]

My friend called me about 10 mins after it happened and he lives in Folkstone im up nearer Gravesend and i was asleep i dont think we got any of it here! But flokstone is in a bit of a bad way! Im ok btw lol hope everyone else down here is!

[Tanya]

hope everyone is ok

[Al1x]

I live in folkestone... just after 8am I got up and was about to turn the tv on when i heard a massive crashing noise then everything started shaking... it was really quite scary. I just ran up the stairs calling to my sister and she said it had woken her up. Glad she was there as well or I wouldn't know what to do as the power was off and phones weren't working. we couldn't contact anyone for several hours!
luckly our house is ok.. my uncles chimney pot had come down. My parents said it sounded like a bomb going off over towards the channel tunnel but its turned out to be just an earthquake!

[wkdfraggle]

Must be very scary! DH was in Manchester when there was one there and he said its very frightening. The after shocks can also be quite bad.

The aftershocks can be worse than the initial quake apparently. I read up on it all when we had the ones here!
Hope They arent as bad if they do get them.

Simone
xxx

[scaramatic]

my dp is going fishing there tomorrow, hes hoping its stirred the fish up a bit ...
not heard the news yet so not sure if theres any injuries