Earthquake!!

[Brown, Jon Brow]

Kashmir 2005
http://images.kenyonhill.com/dd/Images/19-Top-Right-5374.jpg

San Fransisco 1989
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/38483000/jpg/_38483469_sanfran_238.jpg



Kent 2007
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42859000/jpg/_42859269_crygallery_getty.jpg
Look! She has lost her shoes. :bigcry:


And it gets worse
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42859000/jpg/_42859275_streetgallery_getty.jpg

[Ian McC]

All over the South East women were asked " Did the earth move for you darling?"

[veeten]

funny. :p :

[Mark in Oshawa]

an Earthquake in Kent? Boy....just cant imagine how gentle that must have been....

[BDunnell]

It's the lead item on the news in the UK. I ask you. Mind you, I suppose it is newsworthy that train services were, for once, not disrupted.

Love the photos!

[Hazell B]

All over the South East women were asked " Did the earth move for you darling?"

:D

News 24 were talking to person after person via mobiles, none of whom said anything very interesting or informative. They chatted about people looking at walls and car alarms going off :mark:

Lazy, boring reporting. I was forced to watch Saturday Kitchen over breakfast :rolleyes:

[BDunnell]

:D

News 24 were talking to person after person via mobiles, none of whom said anything very interesting or informative. They chatted about people looking at walls and car alarms going off :mark:

Lazy, boring reporting. I was forced to watch Saturday Kitchen over breakfast :rolleyes:

You know that if you'd tuned in an hour later, you would have just watched the same thing over again, as if it was on continuous loop. Not good.

[DonnieDarco]

It was a 4.7. No, a 5. No wait, it was definitely a 5.5. Or maybe a 4. Perhaps it was a 4.3.

Sky gave us all of these within the space of one hour :D

[BDunnell]

It was a 4.7. No, a 5. No wait, it was definitely a 5.5. Or maybe a 4. Perhaps it was a 4.3.

Sky gave us all of these within the space of one hour :D

The main number is of course '0' — the number of people who were killed. '1' is the number of people injured. I think these indicate the significance of the event far more adequately.

[DonnieDarco]

You know that, I know that - we all know that - except Sky :D

[Schultz]

My heart goes out to the people of Kent. God knows what they are going through at this terrible moment.

Sometimes I reckon the news agencies really back themselves into a corner with this kind of story. The initial reports are of an earthquake and they either back the story, or palm it off as an insignificant event. But if they choose the former option, it's like they have no choice but to keep following the story as if it is that major event, before slowly backing away to try nd save face.

[f1icemen]

LOL!! i remember around 5 years back when we had an earthquake about 2 miles from where i live
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2328911.stm

to be honest i was in bed and i was woken up by being thrown out of my bed.. i sat on the floor saw the whole bedroom shaking thought WTF then went back to bed !!!

the next morning people were inspecting little teeny weeny cracks on the floor saying that was the earthquake LOL!!!

goodness knows how the country would react if a freak of natural destruction hit us big time

[Sleeper]

LOL!! i remember around 5 years back when we had an earthquake about 2 miles from where i live
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2328911.stm

to be honest i was in bed and i was woken up by being thrown out of my bed.. i sat on the floor saw the whole bedroom shaking thought WTF then went back to bed !!!

the next morning people were inspecting little teeny weeny cracks on the floor saying that was the earthquake LOL!!!

goodness knows how the country would react if a freak of natural destruction hit us big time
You mean like a tornado through the middle of Birmingham. ;)

[slinkster]

hehe I thought the same thing when I saw it on the news yesterday... you hear about these monster earthquakes in other parts of the world... we get a tremor and it's like the apocalypse!

I'm sure it's all very distressing, expensive etc... but come on!

The Dudley one a few years back... I remember that, woke me up from my sleep. They're scary, but if things like this freak us out, we'd never last elsewhere in the world where major earthquakes are common place.

[jim mcglinchey]

:D

News 24 were talking to person after person via mobiles, none of whom said anything very interesting or informative. They chatted about people looking at walls and car alarms going off :mark:

Lazy, boring reporting. I was forced to watch Saturday Kitchen over breakfast :rolleyes:

On the news last night they boasted " The Earthquake,as it happened, caught on CCTV" and it showed you the inside of a corner shop, so you expected to see the room shake, shelves overturning and people fighting to keep their balance, but no, the exciting bit was the camera being knocked off by the earthquake and we saw nothing but static. Gripping!

[GridGirl]

I live in Gornal where the epicentre of the Dudley earthquake took place. I was up at the time, and to be honest an earthquake of 5.0 was such a none event.

I really cant see why the Kent earthquake got so much press coverage. I guess it was because it was in the south. :s

[LeonBrooke]

Wow, I feel so sorry for you if something so insignificant is so newsworthy. I used to sleep through about four of those per night when we lived in Wellington when I was a baby :p :