Bray Earthquake 4:@17am?

Calibos

Bray Earthquake 4.17am ???????!!!!!!!

Or a train?? (Not far from Railway line but never felt the house vibrate like this before)

frantic190

Girlfriend said that her room shook, Glasnevin, North Dublin. #

One or two others mentioned it on Twitter too:

https://twitter.com/search/realtime?q=earthquake%20dublin&src=typd

Absoluvely

Sorry, that was me. I knew I shouldn't've finished off that curry last night.

Also, try the Wicklow or Geography forum.

Konata

In Drumcondra and was actually woken by some furniture making noise in my room approx. 10mins ago. Could be connected!

Holysock

I'm in greystones and my house was shaking for a few minutes. Don't have a clue what it was.

Calibos

5.5 on the richter scale!!

http://quakes.globalincidentmap.com/

Konata

Jaysus. I'm moving to Japan in September so have been gearing myself up for earthquakes but didn't think I'd experience my first one in Ireland!

Calibos wrote: »

5.5 on the richter scale!!

http://quakes.globalincidentmap.com/

4.6 now.

EDIT: Down to 4.3

k1m

Madness! I'm in Bray n the house shook a good bit. ha didn't know what was goin on :P

Abhainn

I timed it at 4:17am.
Both of us woke at the same time, thought at first it was a huge lorry. Then both our 7 and 4 yr old ran into room really frightened.
Room and furniture rocked a bit
Thought it was 4+ on the scale. Experienced at 5.2 in Cyprus a few years back

DOCARCH

Right in the centre of the Irish Sea. Mag 3.9, according to USGS.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/usb000h7yc#summary

El Horseboxo

Holysock wrote: »

I'm in greystones and my house was shaking for a few minutes. Don't have a clue what it was.

Well it wouldn't have been an earthquake. They only last for seconds.

Supercell

There was a 3.8 off the coast of Wales at 04:16 so ye were not all imagining it
I slept through it

http://www.loughlinstown.com/wxquakeUK.php
Here a linky to the exact loaction in the Irish Sea - http://goo.gl/maps/DmKnw

Supercell

News article on the BBC website - Llyn peninsula earthquake: Residents woken by tremor of 3.8 magnitude

fr wishy washy

Felt it here too

JJJJNR

That wasnt an earthquake. .

mike65

You know someone is going to try and link this to fracking.

Super-Rush

141_Oscar_Mike wrote: »

According to RTE tremors were felt as far as Carlow

I was awake til 7 and felt nothing.

shootie

I'm on the N. Wexford coast and I definitely felt it this morning. I remember waking up in utter confusion at the noise, thought at first it was a line of tractors passing by or something. Didn't think it was an earthquake till I seen it all over Facebook.

degrassinoel

slept right through it, there was one in the 80's (possibly just tremors or aftershocks of a bigger one elsewhere) that i slept through as well.. hope the next one i sleep through too

Captain Chaos

It woke me up around 4:20. I thought it was a low flying plane, they do fly low over the house sometimes around 5-6 am. Then the doors rattled in the frames and my wall mounted TV moved and the wall vent rattled for about 15 seconds then stopped. I thought I was lucid dreaming and went back to sleep and heard on the radio this morning that it was an earth quake.

Solair

The one thing that worries me about that is that the world's oldest operating nuclear power plant, Wylfa sits out not too far from Hollyhead.

I'm not sure giving it a good seismic shake is such a wonderful idea. Sooner that thing is retired the better!

MurdyWurdy

I lived in New Zealand for years with regular earthquakes during the night so slept through this! If it was 5.5 that would have usually woken me up - has it been downgraded?

EDIT: I see RTE are saying it was 3.8. Pfft, not worth waking up for!

Captain Chaos

MurdyWurdy wrote: »

I lived in New Zealand for years with regular earthquakes during the night so slept through this! If it was 5.5 that would have usually woken me up - has it been downgraded?

It was listed as 3.8 8km down but some sources say it was 4.2

Solair

Captain Chaos wrote: »

It was listed as 3.8 8km down but some sources say it was 4.2

That's a massive difference in power as it's a logarithmic scale.

http://www.convertalot.com/earthquake_power__calculator.html


3.8 = 31,622,780,000 Joules -
4.2 = 125,892,500,000 Joules -

To put it into ESB terms 4.2 is 34 970 kWh

Quite a lot of energy when you consider it's released over a few seconds.

I take the equivalent of a horse tranquiliser every night to help me sleep, so felt noting

Always miss the best stuff...:(

Pherekydes

I wouldn't notice the difference between a 3.8 and the wife's snores.