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Recent Earthquakes Reported by BGS


UK earthquakes for the last 30 days (generated on Tue Nov 1 15:30:27 GMT 2005)

Year Mo Dy   Hr Mn Secs   Lat      Lon      kmE     kmN     Depth  Mag  Locality                Int  Other information
2005 10 30   20 55  6.5   56.478  -5.690    172.8   737.9     7.3  1.6  ISLE OF MULL,HIGHLAND        

2005 10 24 05 51 33.6 49.727 -0.950 475.7 -18.7 5.0 1.9 OFF CHERBOURG PENINSUL
2005 10 21 20 18 38.5 53.034 -4.040 263.2 350.5 15.4 0.5 BLAENAU FFESTINIOG,GWY 6KM NW OF BLAENAU FFESTINIOG
2005 10 11 18 02 0.5 52.718 -4.097 258.4 315.5 9.3 0.6 BARMOUTH,GWYNEDD
2005 10 08 21 46 2.8 52.434 -1.991 400.6 281.8 10.3 1.7 BIRMINGHAM, W MIDLANDS
2005 10 04 15 37 6.3 51.633 -2.829 342.6 193.1 19.7 1.6 NEWPORT,GWENT 8KM NE OF NEWPORT


Terms used:

Year Mo DyYear, month and day of event.
Hr Mn SecsTime of occurrence of event in hours, mins and secs. Note all times are in UTC. UTC is the same as Greenwich Mean Time.
LatLatitude of the event, positive latitude indicates north.
LonLongitude of the event, negative longitude indicates west. What are latitude and longitude?
kmEUK National Grid Reference in kilometres east of grid origin.
kmNUK National Grid Reference in kilometres north of grid origin. What is the National Grid Reference?
DepDepth of the hypocentre in kilometres.
MagRichter local magnitude of the event. What is magnitude?
LocalityA geographical indication of the epicentral area, usually the nearest town followed by the region.
IntMaximum EMS intensity. 2+ indicates felt, no macroseismic details. 3+, 4+ etc indicates felt at 3 or 4, but no survey carried out. 3, 4, 5 etc describes the maximum EMS intensity produced by the event. What is the EMS intensity scale? What is the difference between magnitude and intensity?


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