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Tuesday 28th April 2009
Dunno what the title is . . .
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Today was notable for the 'earthquake' (can we even call it that?!) that occured at about 11:22. It was all very odd . . . I was sat at my desk, at work, just working away, as you do. Then, at about 11:20 (by my reckoning but what's a couple of minutes here and there?), there was this rumbling sound and the building I was in started shaking . . . almost as if an HGV or some other large vehicle was passing close by. This lasted for about a second or two and I didn't think much of it but then the building seemed to lurch (perhaps it was almost an up/down movement) in a very unsettling manner. My first thought was, "Christ, has something just blown up in the basement or something?" and then I thought, "This building suddenly doesn't seem so solid," and then everyone was like, "What the hell was that?" and much frantic searching of the internet followed. Word soon spread that the 'quake' had been felt throughout the campus and not just where I was. The British Geological Survery web-site soon (within the hour) reported an earthquake measuring 3.7 (Richter scale, blah di blah) somewhere off the coast, not far from Ulverston. So yeah . . . that was kind of weird. Of course, it pales into insignificance against the kind of quakes that effect other parts of the world. That's the thing with the UK: you don't need to worry much about natural disasters . . . hmmm . . . unless you consider a few inches of snow a 'disaster'. |
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