Earthquake in southern Sweden?
At around 05:19 UTC I woke up because the house was shaking. Cats where running around like crazy. It was a slow long movement, slightly slower than when a truck drives by. Very similar to what I have felt in California, so my reaction was immediately that it was an earthquake. Rest of family woke up.
On the radio, they are reporting people calling them. And people call 112 so that it is impossible to call them for real emergencies.
At 05:46, the news agency TT in Sweden report that also in Copenhagen it was possible to feel the movement, but not much more.
Once again we see that people react and want information when things happens. I just checked http://www.krisinformation.se/ where the last information is from Dec 13. Swedish Radio was at 05:53 showing one short text about it. Also Expressen writes about it.
So once again we see that the services that are supposed to report on things could not handle the load. Instead we have to rely on news agencies, and they have about 30-35 minute delay, and rely on TT, and some of them (like Aftonbladet) is so loaded one can not access them.
Updated: At 05:58 Swedish Radio had to ask people to stop calling 112.
Updated: At 06:00 Swedish Radio on the news report that the earthquake was 4.7 on the Richter scale. Enough to create cracks in houses.
Updated: At 06:00 one could on TV4 website directly see the news program where people where interviewed. News from Swedish Television is only available after the transmission.
Updated: Now we’ll see whether the agency in Denmark, Geus, or the organisation in Sweden, SGU, will be the first talking about what happened.
Updated: At around 06:15 more news about the quake started to be published on various news agencies. Reports from said the quake had a centra about 60km east of Malmö, and 9km northeast of Ystad.
Updated: Found information on the website of emsc-csem. Date time 2008-12-16 at 05:20:00.4 UTC, Location 55.56 N ; 13.95 E.
Updated: USGS report a different location, +55° 37’ 13.08", +13° 37’ 13.80".
Updated: The center was about 10.8 km south-east of where I live. Here is a map over the area where I live, as you can see on the map below.