Fuck, that's what it was. I was fairly certain I was having a heart attack and/or the building was collapsing.

Those epicentres are what, Lincoln and Stevenage?

BBC Breaking News link.

The US Geographical Survey's website reported a quake of the magnitude of 4.7 and said the epicentre was 30 miles (50km) south of Kingston-upon-Hull.

It wobbled the house and woke plenty of people up, but it doesn't look to have caused any major problems so far.

The earth certainly moved though! My first earthquake, and a strangely disquietening experience it was too. Some things are just not supposed to wobble!

The effect those hydraulic rides are trying to achieve, I imagine.

I felt it all the way in London! Never thought it was an earthquake, I was just wondering why my chair was trembling all by itself.

Was it good for you too?

I thought maybe that jan had just gotten new batteries, after a long while.

way down on the south coast and I got nuthin'.
(but I'm fixing to change that Friday!!)

I was asleep.

I'm alive. The house swayed a bit and the windows rattled like billy-o. A car alarm went off. My first thought was that it was a tornado, but I had just woken up. In the end it was all depressingly non-apocalyptic.

Nah, danf, the earth only moves for me when I'm in NYC.

I'm in the Midlands and didn't wake up for it! Bugger! Can't really say I've experienced my first earthquake if it didn't even rouse me from my slumbers.

altolinguistic- I hate that! I'm always having that problem.

Also, if you're driving you don't notice them either, unless they're big enough to break bridges, and then you just think your car's acting funny (or so I've been told- I haven't been driving in any monster ones).

Congrats on the earthquake. I'm glad there weren't casualties- earthquakes where the architecture isn't built for it freak me out. In general I like them though. They're a reminder: You think you're in charge? Not!