Looks like there have been some
interesting but unfatal minor earthquakes
across England and Wales tonight …

The first I knew of it was these comments on two separate IRC channels …

#theoffice — smoothwall staff channel:

[00:55] <Dan> what the fuck was that?
[00:55] <Dan> it was like a tremmor
[00:55] <Dan> before an earthquake
[00:56] <Dan> damn, thats got me freeked out
[00:57] <Hellcore> fuck me the house shaking
[00:57] <Hellcore> literally
[00:57] <Hellcore> er
[00:57] <Dan> you felt that?
[00:57] <Hellcore> ?
[00:58] <Hellcore> you felt it too?
[00:58] <Dan> yeah
[00:58] <Dan> fuck!
[00:58] <Dan> what was it?
[00:58] <Hellcore> you winding me up, cos I'm serious
[00:58] <Hellcore> ?
[00:58] <Dan> i'm serious
[00:58] <Hellcore> where are you?
[00:58] <Dan> st albans
[00:58] <Dan> where are you?
[00:59] <Hellcore> birmingham
[00:59] <Hellcore> !
[00:59] <Dan> !!!!

#speccy — random chat channel:

[00:57] <Dunny> fuckin hell
[00:57] <Dunny> the whole house just shook
[00:57] <Fuzzbucket> Fart?
[00:57] * sirclive gets out the air freshener.
[00:57] <Bluebottle> Same here
[00:57] <sirclive> No imagination. Some people.
[00:58] <Bluebottle> Twas him moving around upstairs
[00:58] <Fuzzbucket> Phew!
[00:59] <Dunny> it was probably the old geezer next door moving
        furniture or summats
[01:01] <Fuzzbucket> Oh! There's a thread on b3ta
[01:02] <Fuzzbucket> http://www.b3ta.com/board/3/5/4/7/3/6
        <--- go here - people all over the UK felt a tremor
[01:03] <Bluebottle> not working
[01:03] * Bluebottle fiddles
[01:03] <Fuzzbucket> Just checked the link - it's OK
[01:04] <Bluebottle> Ah, better
[01:04] * Fuzzbucket has a look at the Beeb on TV
[01:04] <Bluebottle> Sheet
[01:04] <Fuzzbucket> No national emergency :)
[01:05] <Bluebottle> The sodding sofa shook
[01:05] <Fuzzbucket> Just now?
[01:05] <Bluebottle> Only thought it was him upstairs 
        cos I heard a noise
[01:05] <Bluebottle> No, when I said
[01:05] <Fuzzbucket> You guys in for an earthquake?
[01:05] <spike1_moist> I didn't feel anything... where are you?
[01:05] <Bluebottle> Thought it was odd...
[01:05] <Bluebottle> Cambs
[01:05] <spike1_moist> not THAT far from londn
[01:05] * Fuzzbucket copies locations from b3ta
[01:05] <Bluebottle> 40 mins drive
[01:06] <spike1_moist> but we do have a few earth tremors
        a year
[01:06] <Fuzzbucket> Gloucester.
[01:06] <Fuzzbucket> Reading
[01:06] <Bluebottle> Bloody hell
[01:06] <Fuzzbucket> Slough,
[01:06] <Bluebottle> Birmingham
[01:06] <Bluebottle> Wigan
[01:06] <spike1_moist> all the people who felt a tremor?
[01:06] <Fuzzbucket> sheffield.
[01:06] <sirclive> No, SHEFFORD.
[01:06] <Fuzzbucket> Tipton
[01:06] <spike1_moist> !match
[01:07] <spike1_moist> pah, stats gone
[01:07] <Fuzzbucket>  no bumps in kent.
[01:07] <spike1_moist> nope
[01:07] <spike1_moist> I'm in kent
[01:07] <Fuzzbucket> Birmigham.
[01:07] <Fuzzbucket>  Wigan
[01:07] <Fuzzbucket> From London to Liverpool?
[01:08] <Bluebottle> Scared now
[01:08] <spike1_moist> where was the epicentre?
[01:08] <Bluebottle> The fucking sofa shook
[01:08] <Fuzzbucket>  i felt nothing
[01:08] <Fuzzbucket> but now i am scared :(

For what it’s worth, I felt nothing — I feel left out now … but with no home insurance claim to make, so I suppose I should consider myself lucky!!