Earthquakes In Ireland and the UK

vulcan57

Just got this off a friends page on facebook so not sure how reliable it is.

Mag 3.8 tremor in the English Channel about 20 miles SSE of the Lizard. 49.76 N ; 4.97 W.

18-01-2012 at 18:33

Depth 10 Km


Edit: No mention of this on the British Geological Survey Site.

muckish

vulcan57 wrote: »

Just got this off a friends page on facebook so not sure how reliable it is.

Mag 3.8 tremor in the English Channel about 20 miles SSE of the Lizard. 49.76 N ; 4.97 W.

18-01-2012 at 18:33

Depth 10 Km


Edit: No mention of this on the British Geological Survey Site.

No mention on the USGS site either

its on RSOE Your source was reliable

http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/read/index.php?pageid=seism_read&rid=226539

vulcan57

Jake1 wrote: »

its on RSOE Your source was reliable

http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/read/index.php?pageid=seism_read&rid=226539

Also here.

http://www.emsc-csem.org/#2

http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=251490

This must be the strongest in a while around the UK isn't it ?

vulcan57

On the BGS Site now.

http://www.earthquakes.bgs.ac.uk/earthquakes/recent_events/20120118183225.html#page=summary

muckish

Lots of chat about a tremor being felt in the Northwest last night around 1am. Anything showing on any seismographs?

muckish

just confirmed. http://earthquakes.bgs.ac.uk/earthquakes/recent_events/20120126010334.html#page=summary
mag: 2.2
Buncrana
depth 3km

muckish

It's all happening in the Northwest this week. Aurora sightings and now earth tremors. It's the Natural Sciences Capital of Ireland!!:)

muckish

Reports of an Earth tremor being felt in the Kerrykeel area of Co. Donegal tonight around 9.30pm. This would be on the Lenan Fault line. Same line as the 2.2mag tremor on the 26th Jan 2012. No details on the BGS site yet, but keep an eye out here for confirmation. http://earthquakes.bgs.ac.uk/

Diamond Dust

Minor earthquake in Co Donegal

The tremor had a magnitude of 1.1 and was recorded at 9.20pm in the Inishowen area.
It was picked up by the British Geological Survey's equipment.This latest tremor was of a lesser magnitude than the quake felt in the north of the county on 26 January.
It had a magnitude of 2.2 and was recorded in Buncrana.
The largest quake to hit the country happened in 1951. The magnitude 3.7 tremor occurred sixteen kilometres off the shore of Co Wicklow on the east coast

Harps

A second one at 1.50am, never felt or heard anything here. Both felt nearby in Milford according to this

http://earthquakes.bgs.ac.uk/earthquakes/recent_uk_events.html

Danno

Buncranna is quite an active spot! http://www.laoisweather.com/wxquakeUK.php

bb1234567

What are the chances of a decently strong earthquake hitting Ireland?and have any big ones ever hit us in the past anywhere in Ireland? And what kind of scale of damage would we be talking about in somewhere quite populated such as Dublin after an earthquake of 5 or 6 on the richter scale hits? I'd imagine itd be catastrophic with so many old buildings.

kittyn

bb1234567 wrote: »

What are the chances of a decently strong earthquake hitting Ireland?and have any big ones ever hit us in the past anywhere in Ireland? And what kind of scale of damage would we be talking about in somewhere quite populated such as Dublin after an earthquake of 5 or 6 on the richter scale hits? I'd imagine itd be catastrophic with so many old buildings.

Hi bb,

The biggest quake to hit us recently was a 5.4 on the 19th of July in 1984. It hit at 7.57am, the epi centre was in Wales but to memory not much damage was caused bar stuff fell of the mantel piece in my house

Wine Goddess

kittyn wrote: »

Hi bb,

The biggest quake to hit us recently was a 5.4 on the 19th of July in 1984. It hit at 7.57am, the epi centre was in Wales but to memory not much damage was caused bar stuff fell of the mantel piece in my house

I remember that really well!! I thought that my mum was really shaking me but when I woke up (school hols) she was not there and my Howard Jones RECORD had fallen off my bookshelf.......
No-one had a clue what was going on but it seemed to last a while (well, about 10 secs anyway.......)
It was a really bizarre feeling - I can only imagine how scary a really big one would be........:eek::eek::eek:

yop

Tremors reported in Mayo this morning. Felt it here myself. Was very light but definitely occured! nuts stuff.

Neworder79

yop wrote: »

Tremors reported in Mayo this morning. Felt it here myself. Was very light but definitely occured! nuts stuff.

Lots of reports on radio earlier, some claiming cracked walls and chimneys.

rhonin

yop wrote: »

Tremors reported in Mayo this morning. Felt it here myself. Was very light but definitely occured! nuts stuff.

Yeah felt it here in Sligo town.

rhonin

More info http://www.earthquakes.bgs.ac.uk/earthquakes/recent_events/20120606075800.html#page=summary

Redsunset

:eek: And a 4.0 ,If they get stronger in the future might have to be on tsunami alert:)

yop

Was weird feeling that, never experienced one before, if it was a big earthquake it must have been some feeling!

Neworder79

Looks like close to the Corrib Gas site, wait just waiting for "shell to sea" row in.

yop

If it was in the sea then there may have been more damage

ninebeanrows

4MAG

Hope ya enjoyed your rumble!

Elmer Blooker

redsunset wrote: »

:eek: And a 4.0 ,If they get stronger in the future might have to be on tsunami alert:)

I saw a programme on BBC 3 (or was it 4?) last night about a devastating tsunami in the Bristol Channel in 1607, the weather was fine at the time so it's not believed to have been a storm surge. The cause was probably an under sea 'quake :eek:
http://www.burnham-on-sea.com/1607-flood.shtml

Green Diesel

Pretty sure I felt this in Newport this morning, thought it was a truck at the time.

Storm 10

have a friend in Belmullet who told me that he felt nothing but there was a noise like thunder off the coast.

Pangea

Going by the marine traffic, there was two ships in that location.
I wonder if anyone has contacted them to see did they feel it, they must have, since they were bascially sitting on the epicentre.
http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/

vickers209

http://www.rte.ie/news/2012/0606/earthquake-reported-off-coast-of-mayo.html

MayoForSam

Apparently, it was meant to have knocked over a load of recently footed turf in some local bogs, now that would be annoying .