Didn't think these things happened here

[Highlander1]

Dear Mr Bryden,

I can confirm the experience you had today was a magnitude 2.3 earthquake approximately 7 km north of your location on the southern side of Loch Morar at 13:21 UTC. Full location parameters for this earhtquake can be found here :-

http://www.earthquakes.bgs.ac.uk/recent_ev...ent_events.html

Thank you for the valuable information on the effects of this earthquake.

Regards,

Glenn Ford


-----Original Message-----
From: John Bryden
Sent: Sun 1/27/2008 1:49 PM
To: Cc:
Subject: Earthquake West Highlands


Hi

The time is 1332hrs Sunday 27th Jan 2008 I have just inspected my house see www.brydens-craiglea.co.uk for my location. No damage followed a large tremor which caused things to fall from the mantlepiece. At first I thought it was a thunderclap I had heard but then thought no it's shaking the entire house from the ground up. It sounded like the chimney had fallen down the roof as a rumble continued for several seconds.

No damage was sustained. I would like to know if this was a tremor. It definatley wasn't an explosion or thunder and lightening.

Just curious never experienced anything like this in my life and found it quite disturbing.

Thanks for any information you can provide regarding this matter.

John Bryden.
****************************** ****************************** ********************
****************************** *

[BUSHWHACKER]

Wow, Glenn Ford!

I remember his films, the 'Battle of midway' was one of them.

[KERRSURF]

Wow, Glenn Ford!

I remember his films, the 'Battle of midway' was one of them.

Class, in keeping with the normal forum response of "ignore the purpose of thread and proceed directly off on a random tangent"

100%.

[KERRSURF]

So what was it like then ?
Did yer teeth fall out?

[Woodzie]

Earth quake ...........PANIC....


send in the rescuers......Tommy lee Jones , Peirs Brosnan , lots of firemen and some helecopters


Oh and Arnie just incase there are any aliens

[Albannach]

I read somewhere, can't remember where though, that we get dozens of earthquakes a year in the UK. We also get more tornados than the USA.

[Highlander1]

So what was it like then ?
Did yer teeth fall out?

I was very concerned at the time sitting on the oldest and strongest rock in the country like we are it was really strange to feel the entire house shake and the noise was quite unlike anything I'd ever heard before just like a huge explosion coming from under ground. very odd I'm still looking for cracks in the walls.

Cheers JB

[Chillitt]

There was a a small tremor in Cheltenham, About 20 years ago. I was on a day off, so I was laying on the sofa staring at the ceiling (like you do..) and all of a sudden all the ceiling was covered in cracks.. I went outside and everyone had gone outdoors, but no one wanted to be the first to mention 'earthquakes'...

Oh by the way 3.10 from Yuma...

[Woodzie]

Melons said ........Did the earth move for you

[Highlander1]

Kind of wierd being on the srtongest deepest granite rock in the UK I think the wholw mountain range must have sook Woodzie never mind the ground move MRS H was at church at the time.

[da SLUG man]

we've got the british seismological (sp.) centre just down the road... it's just an industrial unit next to a car sales place....

dunno why they've put it next to the railway though!!



www.mlwear.co.uk

[Karma Supra]

I remember in the late 80s early 90s there was an earth quake in holland... we felt it at out home in Germany... I wa only young and came to the conclusion that it was clearly a meteor landing nearby... "as we don't get earth quakes here" lol

Its odd to get stuff like that at home! Very unfamiliar things happening at very familiar places....

[Highlander1]

Looking at the chart on the wedsite they have put the details of the quake on. How do they know it was 5 km deep. facinating really.

[Steve Mc]

Looking at the chart on the wedsite they have put the details of the quake on. How do they know it was 5 km deep. facinating really.

it's quite simple really, there are three types of 'waves' produced by an earthquake, P, S & L which travel at different speeds and reflect back off different parts of the earth. Using 2 or 3 seismographs and the time each of them recorded the 'quake you can work out the epicentre & depth of the earthquake.

We get quite a lot in this country, if you look at the Caledonian Canal it's on an old fault line that sheared millions of years ago.

[Highlander1]

it's quite simple really, there are three types of 'waves' produced by an earthquake, P, S & L which travel at different speeds and reflect back off different parts of the earth. Using 2 or 3 seismographs and the time each of them recorded the 'quake you can work out the epicentre & depth of the earthquake.

We get quite a lot in this country, if you look at the Caledonian Canal it's on an old fault line that sheared millions of years ago.

Thanks for that I kind of though everything had gone somewhere else and we were all stable now.

I always realised that I was living on an Island as the canal splits the UK into 2 pieces which are joined by bridges and locks. I din't realise it was on an old fault line. I am about 25 miles from it.

Cheers JB