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We had an earthquake last night… an earthquake!  In England!!!  Obviously it wasn’t up to the standards that other countries suffer them, but it happens so rarely here that it’s big news when it does.  The last time I remember feeling an earthquake was in 1984.  But that was mild in comparison with last night, well more like this morning.  It was close to 1am.

There I was, lying in bed minding my own business, drifting off to sleep.  Gary was snoring away next to me.  The next thing there was this loud rumbling sound followed by, what felt like, the bed shaking.  Gary almost leapt out of bed and went to the window, where he said he could feel the window vibrating.  This felt like it went on for about five minutes but apparently it was only 30 seconds or so.  At first he thought someone had broken in, followed by the comment that it couldn’t be an earthquake because it would have set off all the car alarms, so it must have been something overhead.  Needless to say, after feeling and hearing that, I found it even more difficult to go to sleep and lay awake for most of the night.

The earthquake was all over the news this morning.  According to tv and news website reports, the epicentre of the quake was 8km east of Market Rasen,Lincolnshire and 22km south of Grimsby and was a 5.2 on the Richter Scale.

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