Google Earth Community: England Earthquake 2008

I'm more than 130 miles away from the epicentre in Market Rasen in Lincolnshire, and I felt the quake.

It absolutely terrified me!! I was just dropping off to sleep, and it felt like my dog had jumped up onto my bed and then was, kind of, jumping around on it. So I looked for the dog and she wasn't there, which was when I started to feel really spooked. I lay in bed for about 5 minutes trying to figure out what had happened, and then I turned on the radio and heard the presenter on Five Live saying to the news reader "did the earth just move for you?", and then I realised that it was an earthquake.

Actually felt quite excited after that and took ages to get back to sleep, not helped by the lovely chorus of bird song who were obviously as spooked as I had been

Am sorry to see this morning that some people did get injured and some homes were damaged.

Sheesh, first I get flooded, then I get earthquaked - any odds on what'll happen next?!?!

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