Caught between a rock and shifting plates
So, there’s been an earthquake in Britain.
And a tsunami warning in Indonesia.
At first, I was slightly anxious about going to Jakarta when I finish here. But now it appears that it’s not safe to go home, either.
Perhaps I should just stay on this little island, holed up in my hotel room?
February 28th, 2008 at 4.17pm
yes, it was very weird. I feel really excited to have been in an earthquake, one of things I can tick off the list of things to do before you die (preferably not in an earthquake).
February 28th, 2008 at 4.48pm
blimey, did it affect the *whole* of Britain, then? my friend S felt it in London!
February 28th, 2008 at 4.49pm
PS tsunami vs earthquake. it’s like Natural Disasters Top Trumps.
February 28th, 2008 at 4.56pm
It even came to Macclesfield!
Almost like a very large wagon going down the main road outside.
I was talking on the phone at the time whereas I guess most people would have been in bed and got woken up by the shaking (12:53 AM).
February 28th, 2008 at 5.07pm
true… only my truly rock ‘n’ roll friends will have felt it
“been in bed and got woken up by the shaking”.. isn’t that what happens in TV shows, when someone thinks there’s a burglar downstairs?
February 28th, 2008 at 5.14pm
I slept through it.
February 28th, 2008 at 5.20pm
I was in sheffield so only inches from the epicentre. Well, 60 miles or something. Though when I woke I thought I was in Oxford and had a very srange feeling of dislocation for quite a while. I asked K what was going on but at the time she was in bed 150 miles away.
February 28th, 2008 at 10.18pm
I slept throught it but then I also slept through a big ole earthquake in NZ a couple of years ago, My sister scarpered and left me there - the cow!