Hopefully all the UK regulars on here are ok and undamaged.

It's about 20 miles from us ... woke 't missus up, so of course she
woke me up, I just told her she was dreaming and it was just a big
lorry ... ;)

Woke us up in Rushden.

HOuse shook for a good minute!

I slept through it, if it happened here at all.

f.ck me it shook like a good 'un

On 27 Feb, 02:30, "Lee_D" <newsgroupsNOS...@NOSPAMlrproject.com>
wrote:

Big  shakeup for us near boston, woke us all up, adrenaline pumping.
Mind you, the big trucks rumbling past are nearly as bad, but not so
severe, and not as long lasting.

The earth moved for us

Lizzy

I'm glad that was an earthquake - i thought i was going mad!

I spent a good 5 mins peering out of the windows as I thought that
somebody had knocked once on my back door really loundly, and something
had fallen over outside.

Bit disappointing for an earthquake really :(

I remember a small one which happened when i was a lad playing out in
the garden at home. Felt just like the whole world dropped down by about
a foot - which is more like it!

I was on the couch watching telly. Heard something go "bump" upstairs
and felt the couch do a weird wiggle. That was about it.

Lee_D typed:

My ex lives in Lincoln, only a few miles from the epicentre near Market
Rasen.  She says the whole house shook, even the furniture, as if a massive
vehicle had passed on the road.  All OK for her with no damage - could have
been worse.

Market Rasen Quake Relief Fund

At 01:00 on Wednesday 27 February, Britain's worst quake for 25 years
hit Market Rasen, Lincolnshire measuring 5.3 on the Richter scale and
causing untold disruption and distress. The tremor decimated the area
causing approximately £30 worth of damage. Several priceless
collections of mementoes from Cleethorpes were damaged beyond repair.

* Residents of Market Rasen and neighbouring Lincoln and Grimsby were
woken well before their giros arrived
* Several priceless hedges were damaged
* Three areas of historically and scientifically significant litter
were disturbed

Local radio stations reported thousands of people wandering confused
and bewildered among the debris, trying to come to terms with the fact
that something interesting has happened in Lincolnshire.

One Lincoln resident, Ashleigh-Marie Dutton, a 17 year old mother-of-
three said "It was such a shock, little Chardonnay came running into
my bedroom crying. My youngest two, Tyson-Morgan and Aguilera-Amy
slept through it. I was still shaking when I was watching Trisha and
Kilroy later that morning." Apparently though, looting did carry on as
normal. The British Red Cross have so far managed to ship 800 crates
of Sunny Delight to the area to help the stricken masses. Rescue
workers are still searching through the rubble and have found large
quantities of personal belongings including Benefit Books and
jewellery from Elizabeth Duke at Argos and bone china from Poundland.

HOW YOU CAN HELP
This appeal is to raise clothing and food parcels for those
unfortunate enough to be caught up in it. Clothing is most sought
after. Items required include blankets for stricken racehorses at the
Market Rasen track and baseball caps, hoodies and other clothing from
TKMaxx.

£5 buys a fish dinner and blue pop for a family of four
£10 can take a family to Cleethorpes for the day
25p buys a biro for filling in a spurious compensation claim
£20 buys Grimsby Town FC

PLEASE ACT NOW!!!!
Simply email us by return with your credit card details and we'll do
the rest! If you prefer to donate cash, there are collection points
available at your local branches of Argos, Aldi and Clinton Cards.
Please do not send tents for shelter, as Market Rasen racecourse will
not allow camping.

OP was Sarah Hartwell
nice bit of work and done very quickly
Derek

Being serious for a moment, the local newspapers latched onto the
initial location figures, and don't seem to have realised that the
geologists have been refining them. Early locations given on various
websites are as far apart as Walesby and Sudbrooke.

The USGS plumps for a field just to the east of Holton-cum-Beckering,
not far from the road between Market Rasen and Wragby, and says the
horizontal error is a possible 6.8 kilometres.

The European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre centres their estimate
about 2.5 kilometres SW of the former nuclear weapons store at the RAF
Faldingworth site.