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Did the earth move for you last night?

If you were fast asleep you may have missed it, but my whole home shook from side to side as Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire experienced its biggest earthquake for years.

The tremor was big enough to shake whole houses and wake most people up from their sleep.

The shock wave was felt as far away as Leiciester and at 1.14am as i write this, there is no local or internet news reporting.

27th February 2008 at 1.04am Derbyshire in the East Midlands experienced a large earthquake.

Log on and tell us about your expediences of the earth tremor.

I don't believe it.
Yes the earth did move for me last night and i screamed with fright. I honestly thought a bomb had exploded somewhere.

It was an amazing thing.

So strange an experience; i have never been in an earthquake before and i was amazed at how powerful it was. Felt like a giant rocking the walls back and forth!

I slept through the after shock which was around 4am time.

It was quite interesting too to see the worldwide reaction on the web - within minutes the US Geological site had around 400 reports of the incident.

Felt it here bigtime

I'm so dissapointed that i slept through it. everyone was so exxcited abou tit and i never even felt it!

hell i thiught it was tyhe central heating boiler blowing up!!!!!!
got up in the morning and bled all the radiators!!!!

Well we've had the earthquake, we've had the floods and recently the snow too - whats next Locusts?