Wed 27 Feb 2008
This might seem like a strange thing to say at 1am, but: I’ve just been woken up by an earthquake. That was odd.
Wed 27 Feb 2008
This might seem like a strange thing to say at 1am, but: I’ve just been woken up by an earthquake. That was odd.
February 27th, 2008 at 6:11 am
Now if the earthquake had been woken up by you, that would have been odd. Well, its epicentre wasn’t too far from Grimsby.
February 27th, 2008 at 6:12 am
Also, it’s not such an unreasonable thing to say at 1am. Had you said it at 3pm, it would have been a lot stranger.
February 27th, 2008 at 6:18 am
Did you feel it? It felt very very odd indeed, was rather loud (for 1am) and (to my senses, anyway) lasted about 6-7 seconds.
I am expecting Dimitra to comment soon and say something like “pah, you Northern Europeans, we had earthquakes all the time in Greece”
February 27th, 2008 at 6:50 am
We still have them all the time in Greece. There’s a funny story involving Martijn and one…
(Also: it would take a pretty big earthquake for it to be felt in Devon if the epicentre was near Grimsby!)
February 27th, 2008 at 6:53 am
That’s true, I suppose. There are reports of people in South-West Scotland feeling it, but I bet they didn’t realise what it was until they saw the news.
I assume that Greece does still have earthquakes, but you’re not there any more to feel them.
February 27th, 2008 at 8:56 am
The story is that we experienced an earthquake in Athens in January 2006, just when I was on the phone to my mum. She had suddenly found herself in a divorce with my dad, so when I said “hey, there’s an earthquake”, she thought that was a pretty accurate description of how she was feeling, not knowing that I was experiencing a real one. Live.
February 27th, 2008 at 1:01 pm
earthquake? what earthquake? zzzzzzzzzzz…….
February 27th, 2008 at 1:08 pm
* shakes kahlan roughly, in a simulation style