Just before 1:00am in the morning UK time, I was playing on PGR 4 on the XBox 360 when all of a sudden, I heard a loud roar and the whole room appeared to shake for a couple of seconds. As we've had a lot of high wind lately, I initially thought that this might have been a strong gust. I had a look out of the window back and front and it seemed very eerie and still outside, no sign of any wind at all.

I thought nothing more of it and went back to play on the XBox. I guessed that I'd probably imagined it as I was getting tired by this point. I just started to play again when in walks my wife (who looked like she'd seen a ghost!) "What was that?" she said.  After I realised I hadn't imagined it, we initially thought it could have been an explosion or a plane crash. I looked outside again, and by this point, half of the street were out in their dressing gowns staring around in disbelief! That's when I realised it had been an earthquake.

We we're both a little shook up and we went downstairs and put TV on and sure enough, breaking news was that an "Earth Tremor" had been felt across many parts of the UK. It later was revelead that the epicentre had been near Lincoln and it measured 5.2 on the richter scale.

In talking to people today, it has amazed me how few actually noticed it. Obviously, I was awake so I was more likely to, but I'm sure it would have woke me had I been a sleep. It was the weirdest thing I've ever experienced. I can't even begin to imagine how awful it would be in a stronger one.

This was something I imagined I would never experience, so if we can have an earthquake in England, who knows, maybe it'll be Boro's year in the FA Cup! (something else I thought I'd never experience!)