Earthquakes In Ireland and the UK

WolfeIRE

Following on from the 2.7 magnitude quake in Co Clare in May a lot more people have become aware of the potential for seismic activity in Ireland and the UK.

Here is the latest info regarding quakes in Ireland and the UK over the past 30 days. The latest took place Saturday at 12.33pm in Scotland. It measured 1.5 on the Richter Scale.

LOCHALINE,HIGHLAND 1.5 305 mi (491 km) 03/07/2010 12:33 Map
DONCASTER,S YORKSHIR 2.0 319 mi (514 km) 30/06/2010 01:35 Map SCUNTHORPE,N LINCS 1.9 335 mi (539 km) 28/06/2010 21:34 Map WARMINSTER,WILTSHIRE 1.5 293 mi (472 km) 25/06/2010 20:55 Map BIRMINGHAM,W MIDLAND 2.3 287 mi (461 km) 21/06/2010 06:02 Map GAINSBOROUGH,LINCS 2.7 332 mi (535 km) 19/06/2010 11:17 Map DUMFRIES,D AND G 0.8 269 mi (432 km) 07/06/2010 18:34 Map DUMFRIES,D AND G 2.3 269 mi (433 km) 07/06/2010 18:33 Map NORTHERN NORTH SEA 2.7 611 mi (984 km) 07/06/2010 17:06 Map

WolfeIRE

Small 1.1 magnitude quake in the Lleyn Peninsula on June 30

struck shortly before 1am.

WolfeIRE

as an add on to our Ireland UK quake watch, the rumblings in California continue:

California hit by moderate earthquake

Thursday, 8 July 2010 07:39
The US Geological Survey has said a moderate earthquake measuring 5.4 on the Richter Scale hit the Southern California desert region overnight, but no serious damage or injuries were reported.
The quake was centred about 200km east of Los Angeles.
It caused tall buildings in downtown Los Angeles to sway and tremors were felt as far away as San Diego to the south.
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It was followed by a series of aftershocks and was the latest in a flurry of small to moderate temblors to hit Southern California in the months since a magnitude 7.2 shock erupted along the US-Mexico border on Easter Sunday.
Geologists have been studying whether the Easter quake made seismic activity along more dangerous fault lines - such as the Whittier and San Andreas faults - more or less likely.

WolfeIRE

Two to report

One from Cardigan Bay in the Irish Sea and one near the Isle of Skye, measuring 1.2 and 1.3 on the Richter Scale respectively.

KNOYDART,HIGHLAND 1.3 335 mi (539 km) 14/07/2010 11:09 Map CARDIGAN BAY 1.2 160 mi (258 km) 12/07/2010 18:45 Map
CARDIGAN BAY TREMOR

Chile have had three big earthquakes today, getting bigger each time, 5.2 6.5 6 .9
Also Alska have had two 5.6.
Imagine living in an Earthquake zone, must be very hairy,:eek:

http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php?area=pac&lang=eng

WolfeIRE

WolfeIRE

NORTHEAST FRANCE 2.3 361 mi (581 km) 22/07/2010 14:29 Map ENGLISH CHANNEL 1.4 318 mi (512 km) 20/07/2010 20:35 Map

Mr Benevolent

The Earth is always geologically active, for anyone who's thinking of worrying, don't bother!

WolfeIRE

WESTERN FRANCE Magnitude 4.0

2010-07-25 16:34:17.446.33 N 0.44 E 2ML4.0 FRANCE

a magnitude 4 earthquake occurs on average every two to three years in Ireland and the UK.

The last big earthquake to hit Ireland and the UK was in 1990, when a 5.1 tremor hit Bishop’s Castle, Shropshire. Homes in Folkestone, Kent, were damaged on April 28 this year when a magnitude 4.3 earthquake struck a few miles away in the English Channel. One woman was taken to hospital with a neck injury. A 2.7 quake hit county clare in early May, the first tremor to the hit the SW region since records began

Full moon today I think, so we may get some large Earthquakes around the globe today.

Also, saw something interesting on Spaceweather.

http://www.spaceweather.com/

WolfeIRE

BOLTON, LANCASHIRE 1.8 265 mi (426 km) 27/07/2010 02:56 Map

WolfeIRE

STROUD, GLOUCESTERSH 2.7 265 mi (426 km) 31/07/2010 00:39 Map KINTAIL, HIGHLAND 1.5 344 mi (554 km) 30/07/2010 22:17 Map

A MINOR earthquake measuring 2.7 on the Richter Scale struck the county just over nine miles from Stroud last week.

The British Geological Survey reported that the tremor occurred at Alkington, near Berkeley, around 11.40pm on Friday, July 30.

Seismologists say we experience around five earthquakes of this size in the UK every year.

Britain’s largest recorded tremor measuring 5.1 on the Richter Scale hit Bishop’s Castle in Shropshire in 1990.

WolfeIRE

CARDIGAN BAY,WALES 1.6 180 mi (290 km) 22/08/2010 19:51 Maphttp://www.earthquakes.bgs.ac.uk/recent_events/20100822185124.5.html

LevelSpirit

Anything less than a 4 and a fart would shake the house more.

WolfeIRE

KINGUSSIE,HIGHLAND 1.8 357 mi (575 km) 26/08/2010 08:01 Maphttp://www.earthquakes.bgs.ac.uk/recent_events/20100826070135.9.html

WolfeIRE

TADCASTER,N YORKSHIR 1.6 316 mi (509 km) 28/08/2010 17:12 Map GLENELG,HIGHLAND 1.1 346 mi (557 km) 27/08/2010 14:16 Map

WolfeIRE

LEYBURN,N YORKSHIRE 1.6 299 mi (482 km) 31/08/2010 10:20 Map

WolfeIRE

CENTRAL NORTH SEA
September 01, 2010
Time: 05:45:55.7
Lat./Lon.: 57.016 1.974
National Grid: 641.2 km E, 798.7 km N
Depth: 15.0
Magnitude: 3.5

WolfeIRE

BANGOR,GWYNEDD
September 01, 2010
Time: 22:10:35.8
Lat./Lon.: 53.176 -4.193
National Grid: 253.5 km E, 366.6 km N
Depth: 15.2
Magnitude: 1.1
Intensity: 2
FELT IN LOCAL AREA

WolfeIRE

KENDAL,CUMBRIA
September 03, 2010
Time: 08:13:50.7
Lat./Lon.: 54.250 -2.662
National Grid: 356.9 km E, 484.0 km N
Depth: 9.7
Magnitude: 2.4
Intensity: 3
FELT STAVELEY,KENDAL

WolfeIRE

DONCASTER,S YORKS
September 07, 2010
Time: 23:21:42.0
Lat./Lon.: 53.452 -1.138
National Grid: 457.2 km E, 395.4 km N
Depth: 4.7
Magnitude: 2.2
Intensity: 3
C/F,FELT ROSSINGTON

nacho libre

Is it possible we could ever get an earthquake on the scale of the recent one in New Zealand?

muckish

Amazing aerial video of fault trace left after the recent NZ earthquake.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Npqx3WmNkv4

WolfeIRE

NORTHERN NORTH SEA
September 13, 2010
Time: 10:31:18.7
Lat./Lon.: 58.690 0.825
National Grid: 563.7 km E, 981.4 km N
Depth: 10.3
Magnitude: 2.5
200KM SSE OF LERWICK

ENGLISH CHANNEL
September 11, 2010
Time: 15:12:49.3
Lat./Lon.: 49.435 -0.358
National Grid: 519.0 km E, -50.3 km N
Depth: 0.0
Magnitude: 2.5
POSSIBLE EXPLOSION?


ABERDARE,MID GLAMORGAN
September 12, 2010
Time: 05:14:56.1
Lat./Lon.: 51.713 -3.399
National Grid: 303.4 km E, 202.6 km N
Depth: 9.9
Magnitude: 1.3

Not

http://www.independent.ie/world-news/europe/london-at-risk-of-being-hit-by-a-killer-quake-2341261.html

Looks like London is overdue a big one :eek:

goat2

In terms of saying when is the next one going to be, all we can do is say that something that has happened twice probably will happen again." what a load of bullony, just because it happened twice, means it will happen again, if he is so great, how is it that he has not foretold the others that have caused numerous deaths and damage

WolfeIRE

goat2 wrote: »

all we can do is say that something that has happened twice probably will happen again." what a load of bullony

there goes Clare's chances of a 3rd all ireland so:(

WolfeIRE

MILTON KEYNES
September 27, 2010
Time: 05:32:16.9
Lat./Lon.: 52.052 -0.799
National Grid: 482.3 km E, 240.0 km N
Depth: 3.8
Magnitude: 1.9

NEWTONMORE,HIGHLAND
September 25, 2010
Time: 23:17:25.8
Lat./Lon.: 57.086 -4.326
National Grid: 259.1 km E, 801.8 km N
Depth: 7.1
Magnitude: 1.7
12KM W OF NEWTONMORE

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NEWTONMORE,HIGHLAND
September 25, 2010
Time: 23:17:25.8
Lat./Lon.: 57.086 -4.326
National Grid: 259.1 km E, 801.8 km N
Depth: 7.1
Magnitude: 1.7
12KM W OF NEWTONMORE[/QUOTE]


jeebus, for a second there I read it as mag 7.1, dept 1.7

me heart!!!

WolfeIRE

the first since Sept 28

WORKSOP,NOTTS
October 15, 2010
Time: 05:49:53.5
Lat./Lon.: 53.257 -1.051
National Grid: 463.3 km E, 373.8 km N
Depth: 5.4
Magnitude: 1.7

WolfeIRE

KNUTSFORD,CHESHIRE 1.2 22/10/2010 02:22 Map

BEESTON,NOTTS 1.9 21/10/2010 23:30 Map

Unconfirmned reports of earthquake harrogate North Yorkshire.

Still looking for confirmed reports.

confirmed on sky news

WolfeIRE

also felt strongly in Ripon, n yorkshire

WolfeIRE

WolfeIRE wrote: »

also felt strongly in Ripon, n yorkshire

have you heard what size? Im just seeing 'small'

just heard 4.0

WolfeIRE

may have been centred in the north sea jake so the mag 4 would not have been felt as strongly on land

WolfeIRE

A small earthquake has been recorded in North Yorkshire less than a fortnight after a 3.5 magnitude quake hit Cumbria.

The UK Geological Survey says the 3.7 magnitude earth tremor was centred west of Ripon in North Yorkshire and took place at 9.03PM (GMT). Reports suggest the tremor was also felt in parts of Cumbria, Greater Manchester and West Yorkshire.

Northern England is situated on a fault zone known as the Craven Fault. The Craven Fault is a series of geological fault lines (including the North Craven Fault, the Mid Craven Fault, and the South Craven Fault) which run along the southern and western edges of the Yorkshire Dales, formed at the underlying boundary of the Askrigg Block.

US Geological Survey report on tonight's quake HERE

An earthquake measuring 3.5 on the Richter scale was recorded in Cumbria and Lancashire on 21 December. People described hearing and feeling the earth moving "for well over a minute" at just after 11pm.


Earthquakes are quite common in Ireland and the UK but most go unnoticed. The most significant earthquake to affect Ireland took place in May 2010 when a magnitude 2.7 tremor hit Lisdoonvarna in County Clare. The quake, intensity level 3, is the most severe quake to hit the Republic of Ireland in recent years. It also was the first tremor or earthquake to be recorded in the west of Ireland in modern times.

The only other recorded earthquake to hit the country in 2010 occurred on January 9th when a tremor measuring 1.6 on the Richter scale struck the Inishowen Peninsula in Donegal.

An earthquake measuring 5.5 on the Richter scale, the largest ever recorded in Ireland, hit Dublin in 1984. Aftershocks from the quake measured up to 4 on the Richter scale.

For more on UK and Ireland earthquakes visit our seismic monitor page.

WolfeIRE

2.2 magnitude earthquake in western Scotland on Monday. Felt in Torridon (Scottish Highlands). There are about 15-20 earthquakes that exceed magnitude 2.0 in Ireland and the UK every year.

Bellis perennis

Was there an earthqauke in/near Ireland last night (01/12/2011)?
At around 23:30 my husband and I heard a loud bang and the house shook. We live in a rural area and not near a main road with heavy traffic. No quarries or roads being built nearby, a door didn't slam shut etc. Thinking it may have been a minor earthquake.

WolfeIRE

Where do you live?

Bellis perennis

Outside Tallow, Co. Waterford.

megatron989

Bellis perennis wrote: »

Was there an earthqauke in/near Ireland last night (01/12/2011)?
At around 23:30 my husband and I heard a loud bang and the house shook. We live in a rural area and not near a main road with heavy traffic. No quarries or roads being built nearby, a door didn't slam shut etc. Thinking it may have been a minor earthquake.

You ever see that movie paranormal activity?

WolfeIRE

Thanks. I will check it out for you and let you know. Could you PM me your email address please.

maquiladora

Bellis perennis wrote: »

Was there an earthqauke in/near Ireland last night (01/12/2011)?
At around 23:30 my husband and I heard a loud bang and the house shook. We live in a rural area and not near a main road with heavy traffic. No quarries or roads being built nearby, a door didn't slam shut etc. Thinking it may have been a minor earthquake.

Doesn't sound like an earthquake. Sounds more like a sonic boom from an aircraft.

WolfeIRE

No seismic activity has been recorded in this area in decades. Cannot find any record of fracking activity in the area either so Maq's suggested cause may not be far off the mark.

Have a query in to the BGS and DIAS. Am expecting a call back shortly. Will update accordingly.

Bellis perennis

I had not thought about sonic boom Maquiladora, good suggestion though. However, with concorde gone there is probably no way of finding out about any other supersonic jet flight path.

If Wolfe can confirm an earthquake then that would solve it. Otherwise, I don't think we will ever know what it was which would be more annoying than anything else. I will ask our nearest neighbour if they heard/felt anything.

WolfeIRE

Doesn't look like there was any earthquake at that time or early on Friday. I have no idea what that loud bang was. Maybe Su Campu will be able to find out what aircraft were overhead Tallow at 11.30pm last night.

Seismogram from the Dublin Mountains, 01-12-11



Seismogram from Valentia, Kerry

Bellis perennis

Thank you very much WolfIRE for going to the effort to get this info. It is greatly appreciated. At least it can be ruled out.

Apologies to hassle you further but who/what is Su Campu?

WolfeIRE

Bellis perennis wrote: »

Thank you very much WolfIRE for going to the effort to get this info. It is greatly appreciated. At least it can be ruled out.

Apologies to hassle you further but who/what is Su Campu?

No prob:) Am interested in the topic so it's my pleasure. Su Campu is a member of this forum and an aviation enthusiast.

Bellis perennis

Thank you

maquiladora

There were F-15 jets from Lakenheath training yesterday but I don't know where. Maybe if they were out at sea and one went supersonic and the sound reflected off clouds to the south coast or something? Heh it's all I can think of. Could be a some top secret aircraft either.