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Earthquakes In Ireland and the UK

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,996 ✭✭✭✭gozunda


    Wolfe_IRE wrote: »
    http://www.quakes.bgs.ac.uk/earthquakes/recent_uk_events.html

    A number of tremors in the english channel during the past few days being classified as possible explosions by the British Geological Survey.

    Explosions of what exactly would be interesting. The English Channel was the site of ordnance dumping over the last 90 years....


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,039 ✭✭✭force eleven


    gozunda wrote: »
    Explosions of what exactly would be interesting. The English Channel was the site of ordnance dumping over the last 90 years....

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Richard_Montgomery

    Lot of speculation about this WW2 wreck,if it exploded....


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 309 ✭✭Wolfe_IRE


    The tremors, which have now been taken off the BGS site with the exception of one, were centred north of Jersey Island


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,565 ✭✭✭Pangea




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 610 ✭✭✭Neworder79


    Wow I think felt a tremor from that. First time I've ever felt the ground shake and door rattle, very mild and brief. Thought it was a heavy vehicle but there was no sound nearby.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,134 ✭✭✭✭maquiladora


    DATE 20/02/2014
    ORIGIN TIME 13:21:30.2 UTC
    LOCATION 51.361 -4.184
    DEPTH 5 km
    MAGNITUDE 4.1
    LOCALITY BRISTOL CHANNEL

    The epicentre of this earthquake was approximately 18 km north of Ilfracombe in North Devon and around 30 km southwest of Swnasea in South Wales. The earthquake was widely felt in North Devon and South Wales.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,068 ✭✭✭Iancar29


    The fracking activists are gonna have a field day with this!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,055 ✭✭✭Red Nissan


    Iancar29 wrote: »
    The fracking activists are gonna have a field day with this!

    And why not? Fracking is like taking a revolver with one bullet in it, pointing at your own head and repeatedly squeezing the trigger.

    You WILL blow your head off, at least we know the worst nuclear reactors do, fracking has even more serious potential, a poisoned land will be OK again in some 20,000 years, opening a fracture to the earth's core might be permanent.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,134 ✭✭✭✭maquiladora


    Iancar29 wrote: »
    The fracking activists are gonna have a field day with this!

    I think this one was a normal intraplate quake. Over in Oklahoma though there has been a earthquake swarm over the past few days that does very much seem to be linked to drilling.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,068 ✭✭✭Iancar29


    Red Nissan wrote: »
    And why not? Fracking is like taking a revolver with one bullet in it, pointing at your own head and repeatedly squeezing the trigger.

    You WILL blow your head off, at least we know the worst nuclear reactors do, fracking has even more serious potential, a poisoned land will be OK again in some 20,000 years, opening a fracture to the earth's core might be permanent.

    My point was that they can't just pin one random quake on fracking ( Of which id be against myself near any populated areas) .Exactly what maq has said , if it was a continuous swarm then id be wondering.

    Just how we can't pin one severe storm on Climate Change.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 194 ✭✭daelight




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,134 ✭✭✭✭maquiladora


    M6.9 on the mid-Atlantic ridge.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,421 ✭✭✭✭Rikand


    Tis fairly kicking off out there alright. Whole scatter of tremors out with it

    http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php

    2ylttaq.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,996 ✭✭✭✭gozunda


    Rikand wrote: »
    Tis fairly kicking off out there alright. Whole scatter of tremors out with it

    http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php

    2ylttaq.jpg

    Any potential for tsunami type event from mid Atlanric ridge?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 627 ✭✭✭JeffK88




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,184 ✭✭✭Elmer Blooker


    M6.9 on the mid-Atlantic ridge.
    But will it get rid of the Azores high? Something drastic is needed to shift it!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 137 ✭✭Zack Morris


    I wonder have we moved further away from North America because of it?


  • Registered Users Posts: 353 ✭✭Daffodil.d


    just got a tsunami alert. quake in snug sandwich Islands. waw too low to affect us but still relevant


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,996 ✭✭✭✭gozunda


    Daffodil.d wrote: »
    just got a tsunami alert. quake in snug sandwich Islands. waw too low to affect us but still relevant

    As in South Georgia et al? At least you have some very nice high mountainous areas if you ever need them ...


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  • Registered Users Posts: 353 ✭✭Daffodil.d


    they just dropped the alert. One to watch though. They're more concerned about another one off the coast of Japan


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