I felt it, went to the computer to find it (using [URL="http://www.data.scec.org/recenteqs/"]my usual link[/URL] ) and of course didn't find anything (waited for 10 minutes).

Thanks for solving this mystery for me!

[QUOTE=Batalov;321675]I felt it, went to the computer to find it (using [URL="http://www.data.scec.org/recenteqs/"]my usual link[/URL] )[/QUOTE]
Try this instead: [url]http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/[/url]

[QUOTE=Uncwilly;321683]Try this instead: [URL]http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/[/URL][/QUOTE]

USGS has updated their site since I last visited. Quite an improvement. The zoom and pan map makes it a lot easier to get perspective on the location. I get their email notices, but there are very many of those. I'm sure I went there after the Japanese Tsunami, though it have been through EQuake3D which gives a graphic representation of quakes by accessing USGS data.

The sort of thing we get excited about :-)
 

[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-21073263[/url]

The epicentre of this one was 10km from where I grew up and where most of my family still live.

[QUOTE=xilman;325138][url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-21073263[/url]

The epicentre of this one was 10km from where I grew up and where most of my family still live.[/QUOTE]

But the quake occurred about 13 km underground.

This is a good thing.

If xilman was speaking of the horizontal dstance to the surface point directly above the epicenter, from Pythagoras we have sqrt(10^2+13^2) = a bit more than 16 km as-the-slanted-drillbit-travels diagonal distance. However, the characteristics of earthquake wave propogation may render that particular measure irrelevant.

[QUOTE=cheesehead;325149]If xilman was speaking of the horizontal dstance to the surface point directly above the epicenter, from Pythagoras we have sqrt(10^2+13^2) = a bit more than 16 km as-the-slanted-drillbit-travels diagonal distance. However, the characteristics of earthquake wave propogation may render that particular measure irrelevant.[/QUOTE]I was.

The only reason that the quake was felt in three counties (Derbys, Notts and Leics) is that those counties meet at a point close to the epicentre.

I've not heard from my family but I doubt they felt anything. The very fact I've not heard from them supports that supposition.

[QUOTE=xilman;325138][url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-21073263[/url][/QUOTE]I point and laugh at your excitement. I have been through much worse (5's and better) and didn't even stop what I was doing.

[QUOTE=Uncwilly;325184]I point and laugh at your excitement.[/QUOTE]That's why I posted it.

I am at uni in Leicester. Lots of people were posting on facebook saying they woke unusually early. One had a poster fall off a wall. I didn't even notice myself.

Not a very big one. I was on the third floor of a victorian building during the Manchester earthquakes a few years back. That was quite noticeable. We got an impromptu break outside because some people were scared lol.

Most people get this wrong (just where is our education?)...

During a major earthquake, should you climb under furniture to try protect yourself, or immediately adjacent to same?