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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/6602677.stm

There's the link your looking for.

Quote from mcintyrej :

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/6602677.stm

There's the link your looking for.

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no difference O.o

Sounds fun. A little fun for the weekend.

Earthquakes are fun as long as they aren't too big. Saw this on the news while eating breakfast seemed to cause some damage which shocked me abit that we can have them bad enough for damage.

I thought it was an earth tremour as it isn't a plate boundry and for earth quake needed to be due to plate tectonics?

Quote from Greboth :

I thought it was an earth tremour as it isn't a plate boundry and for earth quake needed to be due to plate tectonics?

I thought that too. we are no where near the plate edges
And looking at the Geo survey site it happened in the middle of the channel.

The Geological Survey site is SO funny!

Quote :

The felt reports described “the whole house shook and vibrated for approx 5 seconds”, “our animals were very disturbed and my son's large fish tank wobbled and the water splashed from side to side”, “a glass of water on my desk was still rippling from the event a few seconds later” and “it lasted for approaching 10 seconds causing our houses to shake”.

That sentence just made me laugh.

hmm and?
i remember the last earthquake here, my damn house was shaking for quite a few seconds (and its rather big and build in the 70's afaik, so i was kinda scared) but after all nothing really bad/big happend.
im just glad we dont have these huge earthquakes like in the US.

4.3 just a laugh for a geologist :P

(in radio today here they said 4.7 a tiny one too )

Earthquakes like this can happen everywhere, so England prepare your phone -lines

When I did AS Geography (I failed but that's not the point) I was told that the Channel has thousands of earthquakes/tremors a year which obviously we don't feel. This one just happened a bit closer to the coast.

Some information:

UK earthquakes for the last 30 days:
http://www.earthquakes.bgs.ac. ... events/recent_events.html

Euro-mediterranean earthquakes for the las 2 weeks:
http://www.emsc-csem.org/index.php?page=home

World earthquakes for the last 10 days (over 4.0 magnitude):
http://www.ign.es/ign/home/geo ... na=3&cantidad_dias=10

Here in Spain for the las 10 days (many tiny ground movements, nothing special):
http://www.ign.es/ign/es/IGN/Sismologia10Espana.jsp

I've studied about Earthquake resistant design (ERD), and for what I know, here in Europe we shouldn't worry much about our security, at least in most of the cases

eh kent gets one but what about s****hopre at lest we could have a small one.

Quote from faster111 :

eh kent gets one but what about s****hopre at lest we could have a small one.

:doh:

Oh yes, Im sure an earthquake is really fun...

earthquakes in England.