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Earth tremor - 17/2/2018.
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Gramaisc
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I didn't notice anything here.
This says 'nothing over 1.5 today', if it's bang up to date - https://earthquaketrack.com/r/england-united-kingdom/recent
The Hawk
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Swansea area I believe.
Gramaisc
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This - https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us2000d3uw#executive - is saying a 4.2 at 14:31:04.
Gramaisc
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It is big for here - UK site said nothing had happened when I looked at it. The US site has a "reports map", but the link doesn't work to get back to it - the furthest report was Chester, so we are right on the edge of people noticing it, by the look of things.
Very slight 'tsunami' in Newquay?
I was probably sat upstairs at this desk at the time, but I noticed nothing. I was fairly attuned after some years in Cyprus, with regular events of this nature. - but I may have tuned it out as just being my neighbours having their usual technical problems with the difficult concept of the door handle.
Laurie61
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Gramaisc
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As long as it doesn't reach Hinkley Point....Newquay surfers would be happy.
Gramaisc
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-43097113
"Early data from the United States Geological Survey measured the quake to be a 4.2 magnitude tremor.
The British Geological Survey said it was in the process of analysing data."
Don't have an earthquake on a Saturday?
"Early data from the United States Geological Survey measured the quake to be a 4.2 magnitude tremor.
The British Geological Survey said it was in the process of analysing data."
Don't have an earthquake on a Saturday?
staffordjas
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Had a message from son down in Worcerster, saying they have just felt a small earthquake there . He thought a lorry was parked outside his house at first with the ground shaking. (Nothing like when he was in a high floor hotel room in Japan and they had a big earthquake ...he thought the cleaner was messing about picking the bottom of his bed up and down at that time, looked out of his window and all the hotels were swaying)
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Laurie61
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BGSVerified account@BritGeoSurvey 2m2 minutes ago
This is the biggest event in the area since the 5.2 magnitude earthquake in 1906.
Gramaisc
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Are some of the smaller ones in the cluster around Merthyr mining-related, perhaps?
BGSVerified account@BritGeoSurvey 2m2 minutes ago
This is the biggest event in the area since the 5.2 magnitude earthquake in 1906.
Laurie61
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I think old mine working collapses have been credited with causing quakes in the past, what about fracking ? Are there fracking sites in the area ?
Gramaisc
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I'm not aware of any fracking in Wales. There is a moratorium there, as there is everywhere else in the British Isles, except England.
staffordjas
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We were out walking at the time, so didn't notice anything. Sons message saying they had felt it came through at 2.55 pm , probably sent a bit earlier but came through as I passed a wi-fi spot.
proactive
Enjoying a drop of red.
Newquay surfers would be happy.
Oh I dunno, at least the water wouldn't be cold.
SketchyMagpie
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Apparently so, didn't notice though I think I was out walking at the time.
Staffordshire earthquake causes rumbling and homes to shake
The quake's epicentre on Wednesday was in Tean but people say they felt it as far away as Yorkshire.
www.bbc.co.uk