I was having trouble sleeping so I did what I always do. I got up to do 30-60 minutes nerding then go back off. Except the whole world got shaky. which means I got all adrenaline rushed – and now I am awake!

Daisy has been waking up all night since 11 but actually was a asleep in our bed (instead of me) when it happened and has no idea. Ruth said “oh I just ignored it…. AN Earthquake???, no I missed that” and is back asleep. I think henry will have just rode it out in the hammock.

and the BBC news website is now down! that’s just inconsiderate.

I think we just had an earth tremor…. or a very heavy cat jumping up and down….

the whole house just wobbled… (12:58am and yes I am awake… don’t ask!) News 24 Don’t know yet…

01:04 update: BBC Radio says its all over Northwest, Midlands and Chelmsford… quite a specific reference there…

01:07 BBC News 24…. still no news… news website…. tremor is west midland…

it didn’t half wobble you know. it must have been at least a 0.4 on the richter scale (which suggests it will be a 4!). Still real people use the moment magnitude scale

01:15 Don’t know why the call it news24? the newsreader is just on a loop I’m sure… although at the last news headlines she looked at bit flusterd….. false alarm she’s talking about the euro…

the real time monitring of earthquakes doesn’t have it on it’s map yet…

01:19 BBC24 know!!! as far north as Darlington…who’d of thought? Darlington someone had a phone…oh and some place called London as well.

01:22 The BBC website has moved it “Reports of tremor felt across central and southern England”

01:28: The Radio said it was 13 miles south of Hull .. that’s Grimsby not very southern really. as we all know the south starts at Crewe.

01:32 OK the Beeb have said it’s 4.7 I’m going back to bed before any aftershocks. shake me from my desk….

Oh and I’ve just found the nerdy information about the wobbly thing you can even see the field it was in (+/- 4 miles!)

01:48 I was going to bed until Jemma Harrison, 22, in Bury, Greater Manchester, said:

“It was really bad. I was fast asleep and woke up and the room was shaking and there was a loud bang and alarms were going off.”

Sorry I don’t quite believe you Jemma. yes you where 30 miles closer than me. but really does this mean the town of Bury is now a buzz with people all wondering around in a daze?

Natasha Cavey, in Tipton in the West Midlands, said:

“All my cupboard doors flew open and the whole house shook, it was unreal. I can’t believe it.”

I paid good money for B&Q to fit those doors and they are so not level!

the BBC are collecting these ‘stories’

02:40 the British Geological Survey reckon it was 5.1 which makes it biggest since 1990, I’m not sure who gets the final shout on how big it was because the Americans are still saying 4.7. It is quite a big descrepency. 5.1 is about 2.9 times more powerful than 4.7 the scale is all logarithmic you see.

02:57: you could just spend all night (like me) reading different people say different things. The Register are at bit snobby about this all. and reckon the European stuff is better. currently we still have earth quake of the day yesterday had a 7.1 in Indonesia.

07:40 : The BBC really need to stop making it obvious they have a southern bias. it was felt south in London and far north in Huddersfield; Huddersfield is only about 20-25miles north of where it happened.

All these things this weekend haven’t stopped me reading papers you know…

The Guardian I can now just point you to my clippings

but still I’m going to mention, Home schooler’s flee from Germany which is amazing if not for the fact that Laws set-up by Hitler are still being used to oppress people. and it’s nice to see the government still being advised by big business on things they don’t know about… despite being told it was silly and practically impossible they want ISPs to workout how to block illegal downloads.

The Times today had a few nice stories. Richard Hammond is still not really fixed, he has mind issues and can’t park cars that well. Most people arn’t too keen on a state wide DNA Database, You’ll have to guess where I stand on that one. 5 Million adults have never been north of the watford gap, and one 1 in 5 from the south have been to Liverpool, and finnaly ‘we’ apparently want to get rid of public toilets and pay pubs to let us use theirs instead, while we are there lets get shop security guards to provide policing for inner cities…

and I know it’s the New York Times and we don’t live there… but just look what happens if you go all DNA crazy… People don’t take tests to find things out, incase it effects there health insurance or the chance of getting a job ; nice.