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Post by johnofgwent on Feb 25, 2023 8:26:19 GMT
Not for the first time, she slept right through it www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/live-midnight-earthquake-shakes-south-26329331An earthquake of magnitude 4.2 less than a mile down about three miles from the Pot Noodle Mines shook Abertillery and was apparently felt in Birmingham snd Cardiff Bullshit. At the appointed hour i was sat looking in that direction out of the office window and saw and felt sod all except ‘er indoors snoring on the sofa two floors below I’ve never heard of a place called Fochriw but apparently it scared a pet parrot there so much they fell off their perch. |
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Post by Red Rackham on Feb 25, 2023 12:18:26 GMT
LOL, yes indeed I heard about this 'earthquake'. Not quite on the scale of Turkey, but according to reports it supposedly rattled windows in the valleys. Imagine what lefties would be shouting about if we were fracking.
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Post by wapentake on Feb 25, 2023 12:53:13 GMT
Not for the first time, she slept right through it www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/live-midnight-earthquake-shakes-south-26329331An earthquake of magnitude 4.2 less than a mile down about three miles from the Pot Noodle Mines shook Abertillery and was apparently felt in Birmingham snd Cardiff Bullshit. At the appointed hour i was sat looking in that direction out of the office window and saw and felt sod all except ‘er indoors snoring on the sofa two floors below I’ve never heard of a place called Fochriw but apparently it scared a pet parrot there so much they fell off their perch. To be honest John I thought you’d dropped your wallet  |
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Post by jonksy on Feb 25, 2023 13:02:25 GMT
Not for the first time, she slept right through it www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/live-midnight-earthquake-shakes-south-26329331An earthquake of magnitude 4.2 less than a mile down about three miles from the Pot Noodle Mines shook Abertillery and was apparently felt in Birmingham snd Cardiff Bullshit. At the appointed hour i was sat looking in that direction out of the office window and saw and felt sod all except ‘er indoors snoring on the sofa two floors below I’ve never heard of a place called Fochriw but apparently it scared a pet parrot there so much they fell off their perch. To be honest John I thought you’d dropped your wallet LOL |
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Post by johnofgwent on Feb 25, 2023 18:22:18 GMT
Not for the first time, she slept right through it www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/live-midnight-earthquake-shakes-south-26329331An earthquake of magnitude 4.2 less than a mile down about three miles from the Pot Noodle Mines shook Abertillery and was apparently felt in Birmingham snd Cardiff Bullshit. At the appointed hour i was sat looking in that direction out of the office window and saw and felt sod all except ‘er indoors snoring on the sofa two floors below I’ve never heard of a place called Fochriw but apparently it scared a pet parrot there so much they fell off their perch. To be honest John I thought you’d dropped your wallet I bloody wish. But if i dropped a wallet up there it would be nicked and the thief away on his toes before it hit the ground |
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Post by Baron von Lotsov on Feb 27, 2023 14:48:51 GMT
Not for the first time, she slept right through it www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/live-midnight-earthquake-shakes-south-26329331An earthquake of magnitude 4.2 less than a mile down about three miles from the Pot Noodle Mines shook Abertillery and was apparently felt in Birmingham snd Cardiff Bullshit. At the appointed hour i was sat looking in that direction out of the office window and saw and felt sod all except ‘er indoors snoring on the sofa two floors below I’ve never heard of a place called Fochriw but apparently it scared a pet parrot there so much they fell off their perch. I don't know about that one, but there was one time in my life when I experienced a real tremor. It was not very strong, but for a split second you think what the hell was that, and you try and convince yourself that you didn't feel the whole of the house and you are well, move, cos that never happens, except the following day I looked on the news and it was indeed a real one. At the time I thought perhaps something in the house might have fallen off a shelf or something. |
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Post by johnofgwent on Feb 27, 2023 18:29:38 GMT
I have experienced earthquakes, in the very region this one took place, and elsewhere.
The biggest locally lasted perhaps fifteen seconds and shook the office buildings in Cwmbran where i was working. The power cut out and polystyrene and plastic suspended ceiling tiles rained down on our heads. The walls shook and the windows rattled.
Rumour has it the many old mine workings contribute to transmission of seismic events. I don't know if this is true it’s just a claim i heard …
But This was nothing compared to the Adriatic coast of Italy in 81.
You may have picked up details of a far more recent one in the same area about 18 months ago. The road to Florence from Rimini winds through a collection of hairpin bends and the landscape resembles the end of Michael Caine’s ‘Italian Job’ although i think that was filmed elsewhere.
A whole village clinging to a rock outcrop was condemned and abandoned as it once again fell victim to seismic movement. The fault line runs from the hills all the way to Ancona. In 81 on our honeymoon Moira and I stood on a hill overlooking the harbour at Ancona. Directly beneath us hundreds of feet down at the waters edge stood statues and a small shrine you could easily imagine a villager’s nubile daughter being dragged screaming to, and there being chained for sacrifice to the kraken on the incoming tide.
Within the hour the side of the hill, the shrine and all its artwork was rubble in the sea.
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