Earth Tremors in Kent

[Louby]

Sky are reporting Earth tremors felt in coastal parts of kent.

No links at the moment.

Folkstone area and Deal

[Soaring Hawk]

BBC have also reported that a number of calls have come in from people in Kent reporting tremors felt at approximately 08:15.

[tornadica]

felt in deal this morning, whole house shook. looked up on BGS and nothing reported

[Louby]

Seems to have been felt along the Suffolk, Essex and East Sussex coast as well.

[Mondy]

Keep refreshing this link peeps: http://www.earthquakes.bgs.ac.uk/recent_ev...ent_events.html

[geri2k]

Here is another one http://tsunami.geo.ed.ac.uk/local-bin/quak...ipt/demo_run.pl

[Mondy]

Richter 4.7

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recent.../us2007bsal.php

[Louby]

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recent...gion/Europe.php

[Guest Viking141]

European Monitoring station now reporting 5 on the Richter Scale centered 7km SE of Ashford. Reports suggest telephonelines, gas and electricity supplies all cut.

[Kent Snow]

Was sound asleep when it happened. Quite a surprise to awake to all the news coverage.

[Louby]

http://www.earthquake-news.net/index.php

Oh kent police now say it was a 5.4, at this rate it will be 9 by the end of the day!

[Rustynailer]

I would rather a 4.7 every so often, than the Earth storing energy up and giving a massive quake like other parts of the world.

I have been in a 5.4 earthquake b/w, i thoroughly enjoyed the experience, the scare factor adrenalin rush was unmatchable.

Saying that i would like to point out that 5.4 is all i would like to go up too, please no higher....

Russ

[geri2k]

There has been quite a few around the world between yesterday and today, is that normal?

[Louby]

There has been quite a few around the world between yesterday and today, is that normal?

http://www.earthquake-news.net/past7days.php

here is for the past week, and yes quite normal.

[Mondy]

Which will be to blame?

Global warming or Al Qaeda?

[Bobby]

Quite big for the UK. What's the biggest ever UK quake?

Amazing to think that this quake is well over a 100 million times less powerful than the Indian ocean quake in 2004. (I believe)

[Mark Bayley]

BBC news report

News report

[rhip]

Was at work this morning, sat in a chair, having a coffee, and the chair started moving side to side! Lasted for about 5-6 seconds and there was a dull rumbling noise, quite scary. Apparently Folkestone has got quite a few chimneys down and gas main problems. Certainly woke a few people up, but thankfully no major problems, but it will give us something to talk about for a few days!

[Noctilucid]

Was awake at the time but didnt feel it, will be on alert for after shocks

We did feel the Dudley earthquake down here in NE London, it made quite a racket as things in draws and on shelves rattled.

Joe

[Nick F]

Nothing felt here, but we're 30+miles from the epicentre. Also we live pretty close to a railway line which can rumble through the ground when trains pass, so could miss-take a tremor for that if it did.

[VillagePlank]

Didn't feel anything but heard what sounded like mine-blasting to the very far East of here

[Nick F]

I imagine the earthquake in East Kent was caused by a slippage along a fault line in the bedrock. There is apparently some well-known fault lines running through the Dover Straits, remembering back my days of learning geology of the area. I guess the Channel Tunnel and Dungeness Nuclear Plant were designed to withstand a certain amount of movement of the ground in this respect, if they weren't i'd be worried!

[Greyowl]

BGS are saying 4.3 now

[xxsnowflakexx]

Its been worrying as we have a house and family right there in Folkestone. Been on the phone to the local shopkeeper who went to look at the house for us, apparently our street is closed and few chimneys down although the next street has most chimneys down and someone died from shock. Seen pics of the nearby streets on the news.

[Mondy]

http://www.earthquakes.bgs.ac.uk/recent_ev...ert_info_uk.htm

This is the largest event detected in the region since a magnitude 4.4 ML earthquake in 1950. Large earthquakes have also occurred in the region in the historical past in 1382 (magnitude 5. , 1580 (magnitude 5. and 1776 (magnitude 4.1).

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