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Idolmistress t1_j9zzht2 wrote

I didn’t realize the UK got earthquakes. Must have been scary for those who experienced it.

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Not_invented-Here t1_ja15y5x wrote

There was one about ten years or so ago that was around 4 - 4.5 I think, it happened in the middle of the night and I found myself on my feet as what felt like the whole world shook for a brief while, and then I went back to sleep when it stopped. I thought tbh it was a very strange lucid dream I had had in the morning until I saw the news, because there was just no frame of reference for my brain to really process it, especially from sleep in the dead of night.

In the daytime I maybe would have guessed but it would have been more scary also because of it.

Using that as a frame of reference I genuinely think that the big quakes some countries get must be just unbelievably scary. The idea the mass of the earth can just shiver, is something you can think of intellectualy but not actually viscerally understand until it happens to you.

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DootingDooterson t1_ja1zlf7 wrote

>There was one about ten years or so ago that was around 4 - 4.5 I think, it happened in the middle of the night

I was playing WoW when this happened at like 1 am or something and I thought my dog was scratching himself under my desk and making it wobble, I told him to stop before I looked, saw he wasn't there, and realised it was my first (and so far only) earthquake.

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BadgerSituation t1_ja1zqwb wrote

They also get tornadoes.

In fact, England gets more tornadoes per square mile/km than any other country in the world.

But they're pissy little things that rarely do much damage.

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