This Is Guernsey

By Aimee Le Cocq

Student Patrick Ogier, one of the island’s top tennis players. (0456580)

STUDENT Patrick Ogier was shaken but not stirred by yesterday’s earthquake.

The 20-year-old, who lives in Nottingham, was awake and watching TV when it hit at about 1am.

‘It was quite a strange feeling. You don’t expect this sort of thing in Nottingham. It lasted for between five and 10 seconds. It started off quite slight, but then you couldn’t ignore it. It was quite a shudder. Nothing was damaged, but my TV was shaking.’ He said that he and his housemates went outside where many of his neighbours had gathered.

‘We hoped there would be a stronger one afterwards,’ he said. ‘The whole thing was disconcerting, but not frightening. We did the very British thing afterwards and had a cup of tea.’

Mr Ogier, 20, said he had been told that within minutes of it happening someone had set up a group on social networking website Facebook entitled ‘I survived the earthquake’.