Earthquake!! In London!

well, it wasn't that huge.
Sorry about the lighting. Ie, there being no light in this video.

also this was the first video i have eve made using the new imovie, so I hope it's not too bad :/

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[Fifalegendxxyy9]

It was quite strong in Hull when it first hit

[Mr89Nef]

i never experienced an earthquake.. but i can imagine it being too scary :S

[Lemonlubes]

Lol i was in london and it happend at 3am and i was like O: but it wasnt strong enough to break glasses over here :(

[mickyp1960]

i live in hartlepool and my mirror vibrated in my bedroom

[kabibimon]

earthquakes can happen in bizarre places.

i lived in hudson ohio which had like a 4.4 earthquake and i was in karate class and we were balancing and everybody stumbled or fell! ohio had never felt an earthquake before that, or at least in a long time. and now i live in india and i actually thought i velt a very slight shaking in my room today. i felt dizzy! luckily both hudson and delhi are not soft soil but hudson is near one of the great lakes (lake erie). earthquakes are sooooo cool! B-)

[nightshot103]

This is so cute.

[auntiegranty]

I live in Surrey. And I live in the top floor of a 4 storey house. At about 12.55 I woke up with my bed shaking. I have never been so scarred. I physically could not move for about 30 minutes and then sat up and watched the TV for the rest of the night. It was shoking the fact I could feel it in Surrey when it was so far away. Weird

[CalifaJohn]

No. Harder ground can travel as one piece. The worst soil is landfill, especially if on a waterfront. The effect is called liquefaction. If you look at the San Francisco earthquake of 1989, the double-deck freeway in Oakland collapsed ("Cypress Structure") while two double-deck freeways of similar construction in San Francisco (closer to the Santa Cruz epicenter) were left standing. The distance from the epicenter is only one factor and not the most significant.

[CalifaJohn]

Dan,

I don't feel the smaller ones if I am driving or walking, but I do when I am sitting still in my upper-floor apartment where the waves are magnified or in neighborhoods that are on unstable ground. (I am in San Francisco)

[dan892k7]

Although the rest of it I understand very well, but wouldn't the Earthquake travel better through harder ground because the soil would absorb it quicker than rock? If so then that makes it even stranger because England get rockier the further North you go, and where I live is actually inside a valley, lol. And I was also closer to the epicentre, lol. It's strange anyway :-/.