Minor Earthquake in Grater Manchester

[Geordiesnow]

Minor earthquake hit Manchester today measured 2.5 on the richter scale. No reports of damage or injuries

BBC link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/6940546.stm

Sorry mods if this is in the wrong area be free to move into the right area.

[Dave Berry]

My boss felt it. He came downstairs and asked me if I felt it. I didn't, as I was on the ground floor, but a wagon went past work so i thought it was that.

The last time we had tremors in 2002 you could really feel them.

[Gray-Wolf]

2002 was a mini swarm of tremors. This one was felt as it was only 3.1miles deep at source and centred in the centre of Manchester (with lots of folk to feel it!)

[kold weather]

That part of the NW seems to get more earthquakes on average then othe rpalces seem to, is there some minor fault running underneath this part which would cause the higher frequancy of stronger (relative) earthquakes?

Edited August 10, 2007 by kold weather

[Geordiesnow]

Moving it into the Science area

You'd barely feel an earthquake of that magnitude, unless you're right on top of it... I think

I don't think so but like you said if you on top of it you probably will but nothing severe.

Saying that i don't know i never experianced an earthquake and i hope i never will.

[saint]

i once felt an earthquake here in st albans-wasnt there an earthquake in the south earlier this year?

saint

[Crepuscular Ray]

i once felt an earthquake here in st albans-wasnt there an earthquake in the south earlier this year?

saint

Not sure how far your memory goes back, but there was a tremor felt in St. Albans in the late 80s (though I can't remember exactly when) - I was on the phone to my brother's gf (me in central London and her in Elstree) and we both felt the Earth shake within a fraction of a second. If I'd not been on the phone to her, I'd have attributed it to the Jubilee Line, but that doesn't go as far north as Elstree. I think they said the epicentre was near Worcester.

There was a quake just off the Kent coast earlier this year, which was a bit larger than this one and caused rather more damage.

[saint]

Not sure how far your memory goes back, but there was a tremor felt in St. Albans in the late 80s (though I can't remember exactly when) - I was on the phone to my brother's gf (me in central London and her in Elstree) and we both felt the Earth shake within a fraction of a second. If I'd not been on the phone to her, I'd have attributed it to the Jubilee Line, but that doesn't go as far north as Elstree. I think they said the epicentre was near Worcester.

There was a quake just off the Kent coast earlier this year, which was a bit larger than this one and caused rather more damage.

yes that is tremor i felt there was some damage here and that is the earthquake earlier inthe year thanks for helping

saint

Edited August 10, 2007 by saint

[Turnedoutniceagain]

Let's get this straight, the UK has tremors - other countries have quakes. In much the same way as my wife has sniffles, I have the flu

[Bobby]

Tremors like this are common in the UK. 2.5 is a very weak earthquake, millions if not billions of times less powerful than the 2004 Indian Ocean one, which was 9.2. It's the equivalent of throwing a grain of sand in a pond compared to a huge boulder.

Yay, 1000 posts.

Edited August 11, 2007 by Magpie

[Cookie]

well done magpie, they kept that one quite about the quake

[Darren Bown]

This was something like the 130th earthquake to hit Manchester since October 2002.

Daz

[Darren Bown]

Just thought you would like to know there was another minor, unfeelable tremor in Manchester again this morning...

Earthquake

[Cookie]

Im suprised thier wasnt one last sunday. when man city beat man united :lol:

I cant bealive how many small ones happen that most of time we dont evern bat an eyelid

[Darren Bown]

As an update from the last one, there have been 4 earthquakes since the one on the 10th, another on the 10th, and 3 yesterday! At least one was felt. I didn't feel anything, although I did wake up at about 1:30 yesterday morning.... so perhaps that was it!

Daz

LINKY QUAKEY!!

[Weather-history]

Manchester area has had another one yesterday, a 2.2 Maybe the start of another swarm of earthquakes for this area.

[Dazza]

Certainly a lot of seismic activity in that area lately, lets not hope that it's bulding up to something much bigger!

[Geordiesnow]

Surpriced i have to say that particular area get loads of earthquakes albeit small and hardley noticetable. Won't like living there i have to admit.

[Cookie]

whats causeing all these quakes? any reason or are they just natural

[Cumulonimbus Tower]

whats causeing all these quakes? any reason or are they just natural

They are natural all right ;-)

The office where i work is 8 floors up in a building built on top of the Victoria to Croydon line. At about ten to one every day we get a rather large goods train go under the building which maked the whole office shake - now that is un-natural.... :huh:

Ned