Losing my rationality
There was a wee earthquake a few years ago, with the epicentre in Market Rasen, if you remember. I used to live about 50 miles from there.

The earthquake struck at about 1 in the morning.

I was in bed with the lights off, earphones on, the cat by my feet and my eyes shut. And the bed started shaking. More than it should’ve done with a cat perhaps jumping down from it. I opened my eyes and my fucking wardrobe doors were banging and the bed continued to shake. Frankly, a bit like The Exorcist.

It stopped pretty quickly. My cat had jumped off the bed and was stood in the doorway looking shit scared. I got up and wondered exactly what had happened, never having been through a minor earthquake before. Earphones off, I looked out the window and there was some seriously creepy fucking calm. There were no car alarms going off. There were no lights on in other houses. Not a stitch out of place: just silence, and normality. My heart, on the other hand, was damn near bursting through my ribcage.

And I thought, ‘what the fuck was that?’

And I thought, ‘did that only happen to me?’

And to my eternal shame, my first conclusion was that it was a poltergeist – which my adrenaline-fuelled brain thought more likely than a fucking earthquake in fucking Yorkshire that caused no fucking car alarms to go off.

Took me ages to get to sleep after that. The cat didn’t seem to mind too much after a minute – it licked itself and looked bemused, as per usual. Wasn’t till the morning that I realised it was an earthquake. Thank the Lord.
(Land of Green Ginger It's dreamy weather, Fri 8 Apr 2011, 15:17, 8 replies)

There's a small geological fault running through Keele,
which is close to where I grew up. Occasionally, it shifts and settles a bit. Once, I was woken by a small tremor.
"Oh, it's an earthquake", said to myself, as I rolled over and went back to sleep. Three hours later, I woke with a start. "What? An earthquake?!"
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 8 Apr 2011, 15:26, closed)

Exactly.
It seems no more likely than being eaten by a shark in Derby.
(Land of Green Ginger It's dreamy weather, Fri 8 Apr 2011, 15:31, closed)

I was a bit annoyed that I'd not been more awake and able to enjoy the experience.
When you're as boring and ugly as I am, you get few enough earth-moving experiences in bed as it is.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 8 Apr 2011, 15:39, closed)

I was up drinking beer with my mate
It started as wardrobes banging and I thought the kids were fighting. Then it sounded like something heavy slid down the outside of the house, (end terrace), heavy like a tree trunk. Then the floor vibrated quite hard for a few seconds.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Fri 8 Apr 2011, 17:17, closed)

I remember that
And I remember thinking exactly the same thing! Much to the amusement of my other half.
(superkitty is neither super nor a kitty, Fri 8 Apr 2011, 15:31, closed)

This is really quite comforting.

(Land of Green Ginger It's dreamy weather, Fri 8 Apr 2011, 15:32, closed)

I was up late playing on the XBox at the time
And to me it just felt like there was a fucking big truck driving slowly past my house. Which was odd, as it was past 1.00 a.m., but I'd had a few tins of beer so didn't think much of it and worked out fairly quickly it was an earthquake.

Not very creepy reminiscence. Sorry.
( shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Fri 8 Apr 2011, 15:48, closed)

same here, maybe we should form a support group?

www.b3ta.com/questions/escapes/post832199
(Monkeystrumpet monkey. Monkey, MONKEY!!!, Fri 8 Apr 2011, 16:18, closed)