France earthquake
 

Did the earth move for you St Cirq?? :)

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-a8968481.html

Earthquakes are quite common in Brittany, but most of them are 2's or 3's.

It has been downgraded to a 4.9 but still good enough to get people up in the morning. (Click on the image to see it bigger.)

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I've only experienced one earthquake, in 1992, centred on Roermond. It was a 5.8 and it woke us up 150km away. Funnily enoughtwo of our kids slept through it. Our bed, and that of our eldest were north-south oriented, the other two boys were east west and didn't feel a thing. Nor did our neighbour who was most annoyed to have missed it!

Been to California several times and never felt an earthquake there.

I used to live in Los Angeles when I was a student, so I know what a "real" earthquake is -- everything falling off the walls and the refrigerator moving to the center of the kitchen. The good old days.

That isn't much of an earthquake, hardly international news or that anyone should be worried about anyone. I've lived through many much worse than that as I lived in California for many years. I've lived through worse ones than that in Virginia, actually.

Yes, but it's always "big" to people who are not familiar with earthquakes.

I know it wasn't "big" but it is interesting to hear about it surely? Not everone gets treated to these things on a regular basis, or realises they happen in countries like France.

Didn't feel a thing, heti:) We had one in DC of about the same magnitude as this one a few years before we moved, and it may have been trivial in comparison to some, but it scared the hell out of us!

We were in a caravan in Fitzroy Crossing (a very small town in the far north of Western Australia) during an earthquake That was an interesting experience - cars and caravans jumping up and down.

St.Cirq, they are still repairing the spires of National Cathedral from that earthquake...we are watching VERY slow progress, if any, from our balcony.