[jekylljuice]

Yeah, I was caught up in this (I mentioned it in the Post Whatever Is On Your Mind thread). I was just drifting off to sleep when my bed just suddenly started shaking, and all around me I could hear the ominous creaking of the entire house shaking along with it. Since it had been a pretty windy day previously, my immediate thoughts were that we were experiencing a hurricane (also a pretty rare occurence in the UK, but they have happened - I like to think that the fact that I was awake during this particular phenomenon makes up for the fact that I slept through the infamous hurricane we experienced in 1987, though then again I was only two years old at the time, so I doubt I'd have been able to appreciate it all that much). Only as it was coming to an end did I realise that it was probably a seismic thing. It was pretty scary, particularly since I've never experienced anything of this nature before, but it didn't last long, and nothing appears to have been too badly damaged around us.