5.0 Earthquake hits South Island of New Zealand

[InOne]

Christchurch again :( Hope it's not as bad as the last one

http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=224498

[Locke.]

rapture

[Jords]

So many earthquakes this year!

[Ithinkiloveyoutoo]

^^and volcanos, mud slides and falling fish and birds..**** we're all gonnu die in october! :bawling:

[InOne]

Loads died from the other one was well, doubt they've hardly rebuilt :/

[Jords]

^^and volcanos, mud slides and falling fish and birds..**** we're all gonnu die in october! :bawling:

:bawling:

[Benjamin]

Another Earthquake? :shocked:

[InOne]

Is 5.0 bad?

[Zippy]

Must be unnerving living in an earthquake zone. I'd be making plans to move.

[Kerry]

I'm sure the one we had was about 7. It only knocked a few chimneys off..... *Googles*

[Kerry]

Here we go. I felt it. Crapped myself. But it just felt like a weird shudder and a few things bobbled around the house

The biggest earthquake in the UK for nearly 25 years has shaken homes across large parts of the country.
People in Newcastle, Yorkshire, London, Cumbria, the Midlands, Norfolk and also parts of Wales, felt the tremor just before 0100 GMT.

A man suffered a broken pelvis when a chimney collapsed in South Yorkshire.

The British Geological Survey (BGS) said the epicentre of the 5.2 magnitude quake was near Market Rasen in Lincolnshire.

Davie Galloway, seismologist for the BGS, said people had reported feeling the tremor from as far as Bangor in Northern Ireland to the west, Haarlem in Holland to the east, Plymouth to the south and Edinburgh to the north.

Student David Bates, 19, suffered a broken pelvis when he was pinned under masonry in his attic bedroom in Barnsley Road, Wombwell, South Yorks.

His father Paul Bates said: "There was a rumble and then we heard a bang and my son screaming 'Dad'."

I woke up and the first thing I thought was that there were a load of burglars in the house

Jamil Ali
Sheffield


Student injured in collapse

His son was taken to hospital and was due to undergo surgery later.

Bev Finnegan, who lives in Market Rasen, Lincolnshire, said: "I was terrified to be honest. The noise was really, really terrifying... it was so deep and rumbling.

"It felt like the roof was going to fall in. There were people coming out in their dressing gowns wondering what it was. It was quite an experience."

A Lincolnshire police spokeswoman said the force had received dozens of calls from residents but there were no reports of anyone in the county being injured.




Moment quake hit

"There is slight structural damage, cracks and a couple of chimneys damaged. There's nothing serious at present," she said.

"Mostly people were distressed by it so there were a large quantity of calls coming in."

Speaking from Gainsborough, Mike Thomas, chief fire officer for Lincolnshire, said crews had been called out to 50 incidents and one fire as a result of the quake.

And Justin Cowell, in Gainsborough, told BBC News that it "started as a massive shake".

"People had come out into the street. It seemed the whole town had woken up."

Tom Edwards, from Heckington, Lincolnshire, said he heard a noise like "an underground train and an enormous roar".

"I thought I was probably going to get killed."

[Patrick]

Bring Back Japan! x

[Redway]

Will we hear any rest this year? My word. Thank goodness it was only magnitude 5.0 - it's a very mild earthquake. Nobody died - just a few tremors.

[Redway]

This might help:

the first scale of measuring is the Magnitude Scale.

Magnitude 3.5 or below - Generally not felt, but recorded.

Magnitude 3.5 to 5.5 are generally recorded and felt, rarely causes damage.

Nothing to worry about. Replace the term "earthquake" with "tremor". The news just wants something to moan about...