In the 1980's NIREX (old name) identified South Killingholme, Humberside, as a suitable site for Low Level Nuclear Waste Disposal. Given that the epicentre was less than 30 miles away how might the "Market Rasen Earthquake - 27th February 2008" have affected the security of the proposed site?

Jenny, Cleethorpes,

I was sat down when my desk began to rock. Then I saw my bedroom door moving back and forth too. I live on the 9th floor of a block of flats in NW1 London. I was on my own so Ithought i imagined it!! glad to know I wasn't going mad!!

Lucy , London,

the earth moved for my family but not for me i managed to sleep all the way through it. x

donna, scarborough, united kingdom

After a night out in London we returned late to Marlow, where we went to bed just prior to 1AM. Soon after we heard a thud and the bed started to shake. My wife asked me if I was shaking the bed.

"No, I said, if we were home in California I would say that was an earthquake, but we're in England now. England is not earthquake country."

I guess you can blame me for importing earthquakes to the UK.

Jeff Fox, Los Gatos, CA / USA

my daughter and i was still up.id had a few glasses of wine before it stuck.so i thought id imagined it lol till my daughter jumped on my knee scared.shes only eight and she asked if it was a earthquake i said no way we dont have them in yorkshire.how wrong was i!

donna, wakefield,

we are in a small village called Broadwell which is on the borders of Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire not far from Burford, I was asleep when I felt as if this huge wave moved under my bed leaving the bed shaking for a few seconds, I jumped to my feet not knowing what it was and thinking it was only a bad dream, it was only this moring I heard the news that I realised it was an earthquake

leila rezazad, broadwell, Glos

When i finally drifted off, I started to dream that someone was trying to climb through my window and kidnap me....then the earthquake struck...bloody hell (i thought) it wasn't dream!...i screamed at the top of my lungs, and looked around my room..obviously no-one was there. My body was in complete shock and i started crying hysterically. Then my next thought was its the end of the world...i called my friend to say my goodbyes...then my mother ran in to try and calm me down! WHAT A WIMP I AM. I refused to go to sleep for the rest of the night!.....

Rukaya, manchester, england

I was fast asleep when I woke with a start, like something had made me jump. Because I had literally been jerked out of sleep, I was still half dreaming and thought someone had come bursting through the door into my room - I reacted by pulling the covers over my head like a child, lol! When I woke up properly, I sat up and looked at my clock, noticing that it was 1am. I was convinced I had dreamed the whole thing and wondered what had woken me.

When I heard about the earthquake this morning it all made sense.

Suzanne, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire

I too like most people had been asleep when the tremors struck. I am in London, and am amazed how people are claiming we felt nothing. I certainly did!

All of a sudden, it felt like there was an animal running around on the roof. I realised with being on the 9th floor, that this was somewhat unlikely. The scratching got worse and the floor started trembling.

The shaking then got pretty violent and I remember hearing enormous creaks and heaves in the roof and walls. I had been shaken in my bed, and felt like I was on a rocking chair.

I again felt the sensation some hours later. I realised I'd had no drinks apart from milk, and was unable to sleep the rest of the night.

Aneil Sharma, London, England

Here, just a few miles from Coventry, my daughter had retired to bed, having left her husband watching TV. He fell asleep on the sofa and when the earthquake struck with a thunderous bang he did a vertical take-off. His first thought, bless him, was that his wife had fallen out of bed. I don't think they're speaking to each other today.

Hilary Parke, Withybrook, Warwickshire

Cambridge again- didn't feel or hear a thing. Imagination's certainly wonderful.

Ann Keith, Cambridge, uk

I was still awake layed in bed and i felt a trembling sensation in the bed, i thought it was my husband shaking his legs so i smacked him and woke him up, suddenly the room was shaking and i could hear the wardrobes and furniture rattling, i was really scared then it stopped, i soon realised it was not my husbands legs ha ha, he went back to sleep and the kids never woke up in the first place thank goodness, i however spent the next 2 hours petrified it was going to happen again, i recieved a text message from a friend in Barnsley saying they has felt it too i was gob smacked i didnt think we got them over hear, anyway i am now glad i was awake, my cousin slept through it and was disappointed because its the topic of conversation today.

Stacy, Blackpool,

I sat in on a physical geography class taught by an exchange Professor who hails from Midland, England if I remember correctly. He was absolutely fascinating! He said that it would come as a surprise to most people, but in Minnesota and in England earthquakes are very possible and will happen. Earthquakes of the type people really notice aren't common in Minnesota. I couln't remember how common he said they were in England, but I thought they weren't that common. Arizona's earthquake was a magnitude of 2, on the 20th. I've felt mild tremors in Minnesota, but never found out if they were officially diagnosed as an earthquake or not. I'm waiting for the day that all those places in the world that do not make earthquake resistant buildings to have a major disaster whereby, they start flocking to Japan to learn how to design better and safer buildings. Perhaps now is the time for England to do such a thing. I never did if they found a way to protect historic building from earthquakes.

Kyt, Ramsey , USA / MN

cambridge again - I was having midnight spaghetti with my bf. I'm an italian very well used at feeling tremors so I was sure it was an earthquake! The funny thing is that I reacted in a very british way and I said 'Is UK seismic? I didn't know it!' rather than screaming away. The glasses were gently rattling in the cupboard, chairs, table and plates moved as well. Not scary and quite interesting. Not so sure was my bf, who stated that the people downstairs must be having a jolly old time. But then we checked the bbc and the most read story had suddently become an earthquake one from a few months ago. It must have been that people expected the bbc to pick up *instantly*, searched the word and clicked on the first story that came up. It made us think that we all would rather turn to the web oracle than believe their perceptions. yeah!

memole, Cambridge,

Well Johnm in Romford, I was beginning to think I was imagining things but I too felt the quake last night in Colchester! It didn't wake me completely I was just somewhere between sleep and consciousness when I felt the house shake a bit. In the mornign I asked my roomate if she had felt the house shake and she thought I was crazy. I was completely surprised this mronign when my friend from Canada had sent me an email asking if everythign was ok because she heard there was an earthquake! This was my first earthquake experience. Being from the East Coast of Canada I haven't ever felt one before. Hope it was my last though!

Christina, Colchester, Essex

I did'nt know we could get earthquakes in this country, I'm really scared now and I want to leave the country.

Emily Todd, Cambridge, Cambridgshire

I was still awake at around 1am reading. I could hear the communal stairs to my small block of converted flats shaking and then felt my flat shaking to the extent where my bed was shaking against the un-even floor in my bedroom. It was quite frightening as it was deeper and heavier than a passing HGV. I convinced myself it must be an extremely heavy person running up the stairs of my flats, or in the flat above. I got up and double locked my front door! I was relieved and very surprised this morning to hear about the earthquake at 1am! But all the way over here in Romford, Essex?! I put it down to the fact that the building is converted, grade two listed and not a conventional conversion.

John Carey, Romford, Essex

Cambridge - Was asleep in bed and the bed staarted shaking, for arund 6 seconds I joked to my partner that it might be an earthquake only to awake to the news that it was.. When I went outside this morning it had knocked my motorbike over

frank , cambridge, cambs

I woke up to the bed shaking quite violently and heard like a loud wooshing sound come through the house and our french doors rattling. I got up and thought there was very strong gales. The dog was upset and whining so I let him out for a wee, only then did I realise that there was no wind and everything was still. I went back to bed totally confused, but as soon as I woke this morning I said to my husband - I sure there was an earthquake last night!

K Spence, Caistor, Lincolnshire