Earth Tremor

Utterly bizarre. I was just sitting here in my flat at 12.55am, when the sofa started shaking.

I live on a top floor flat, and the light hanging above me was moving while the rather precarious stack of CDs against one wall started to move. It all went on for about ten seconds.

Turning on Five Live reveals that the tremor was felt across the country - as far afield as Rochdale, Bedfordshire, Norfolk, and, well, London.

I've only ever felt one earth tremor before which was in Athens (i.e. very close to the meeting of some of the earth's tectonic plates). That was an aftershock that I felt in a sixth floor bedroom.

I'd say that this was actually quite a similar force. This time I was on a sofa, last time I was lying on a bed. In both instances it felt like someone bouncing on a bed near me.

Anyway, Sky News now has it as breaking news...

[UPDATE] Here it is (thanks to the magic of Twitter) - a magnitude of 4.7.