Earthquakes In Ireland and the UK

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....

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....

Wolfe_IRE

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

Pangea

Earthquake off Donegal coast today 2.7
http://earthquakes.bgs.ac.uk/earthquakes/recent_events/20121121090818.html#page=summary

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.

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.

Iancar29

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

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.

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.

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.

daelight

Broken lamp casualty - http://www.westerndailypress.co.uk/Reports-earthquake-Devon-investigated/story-20669492-detail/story.html

Devonstation you might say..?

maquiladora

M6.9 on the mid-Atlantic ridge.

Rikand

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

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

gozunda

Rikand wrote: »

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

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

Any potential for tsunami type event from mid Atlanric ridge?

JeffK88

Nope none issued

http://www.breakingnews.com/item/2015/02/13/northern-mid-atlantic-ridge-4/

Elmer Blooker

maquiladora wrote: »

M6.9 on the mid-Atlantic ridge.

But will it get rid of the Azores high? Something drastic is needed to shift it!!

Zack Morris

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

Daffodil.d

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

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 ...

Daffodil.d

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