Earthquake near the Marsworth Reservoirs

[Tanglewood]

An earthquake measuring 3.6 has been recorded near the Reservoirs at Marsworth on the Southern Grand Union,  anyone know anything 

 

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000bjlf/map

[Tanglewood]

[Higgs]

 

No,          really.  

        not 

[bizzard]

I remember the tremor that happened just north of B.Stortford a few yoears ago. It was in the early hours. I was asleep and suddenly dreamt I was in the Crazy Cottage at the Southend on sea Kursal on the ''Cake Walk''. My bed must have been shimmering.

[Higgs]

 

There was one felt in Derby, some years ago. It felt like being a bit woozy. 

 

 

[Martin Nicholas]

BGS seem to disagree on the epicentre. More like LEIGHTON BUZZARD, BEDS.

[Machpoint005]

3.6 Richter is 4/5ths of naff-all.

 

 

[IanD]

1 hour ago, bizzard said:

I remember the tremor that happened just north of B.Stortford a few yoears ago. It was in the early hours. I was asleep and suddenly dreamt I was in the Crazy Cottage at the Southend on sea Kursal on the ''Cake Walk''. My bed must have been shimmering.

First night of my first ever visit to Japan I had terrible jetlag, with this weird nightmare about the bed jumping up and down and trying to throw me out. At breakfast the following morning I found it was the biggest earthquake they'd had for several years, and thirty floors up the bed *had* been trying to throw me out...

Edited September 8, 2020 by IanD

[cuthound]

One of the girls I used to work with was holidaying in New Zealand when they had their big earthquake in 2011.

 

She was driving when it occurred and stopped the car to see what was wrong with it. Only when she got out of the car did she realise that the shaking and vibrations were nothing to do with the car! ??

[StephenA]

BGS show it as being here:

 

[zenataomm]

I recall one in that exact same area reported in the early 80s.

I heard about it because my Father was living at Aston Clinton at the time which is a few locks down the Aylesbury cut.

 

So if that's two in 40 years I guess it means, errr ....... summat. Yes you heard right.

 

[tree monkey]

2 hours ago, Machpoint005 said:

3.6 Richter is 4/5ths of naff-all.

 

 

What scale of naff-all are you using, metric or imperial 

[TheBiscuits]

11 minutes ago, tree monkey said:

What scale of naff-all are you using, metric or imperial 

 

4/5ths must be imperial. Otherwise it would be 0.8 naff-alls or 8 centi-naff-alls

[tree monkey]

23 minutes ago, TheBiscuits said:

 

4/5ths must be imperial. Otherwise it would be 0.8 naff-alls or 8 centi-naff-alls

Fair point, I missed that, it could be the American standard though and we all know how messy it can get using that

[Machpoint005]

3 hours ago, tree monkey said:

What scale of naff-all are you using, metric or imperial 

 

2 hours ago, TheBiscuits said:

 

4/5ths must be imperial. Otherwise it would be 0.8 naff-alls or 8 centi-naff-alls

 

Since the Richter scale is logarithmic, "neither" is the correct answer, but since naff-all is zero, it is dimensionless anyway.

 

3.8 is 10% of 4.8, which is 10% of 5.8, which is 10% of 6.8, which is starting to feel like a real earthquake (ie when it is 1000 times bigger).

[Man 'o Kent]

I think it might not be an earthquake at all, just the owner of the boat that I am involved with trying to move the scenery again!

[blackrose]

6 hours ago, IanD said:

First night of my first ever visit to Japan I had terrible jetlag, with this weird nightmare about the bed jumping up and down and trying to throw me out. At breakfast the following morning I found it was the biggest earthquake they'd had for several years, and thirty floors up the bed *had* been trying to throw me out...

Indeed. I lived in Tokyo for 10 years so used to experience them regularly.

[cuthound]

14 hours ago, Man 'o Kent said:

I think it might not be an earthquake at all, just the owner of the boat that I am involved with trying to move the scenery again!

 

Are you helping out Timothy West then? ??

[Man 'o Kent]

1 hour ago, cuthound said:

 

Are you helping out Timothy West then? ??

Whats he supposed to have done then?

[cuthound]

1 minute ago, Man 'o Kent said:

Whats he supposed to have done then?

 

Single handedly turned boating into a "contact sport". ?

[sirweste]

As I now work from home I felt this yesterday, was bizarre feeling the shudder and hearing the ceiling creak / crack. I'm moored pretty much dead between the two quoted centres just south of Slapton at Lock 32

[Izz]

I felt my boat rock and thump on the bank. Thought it was a big gust of wind. Totally forgot about it until lunchtime when someone told me there'd been an earthquake.