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Recent Earthquakes Reported by BGS

Earthquakes in and around the British Isles for the last 30 days (generated on Tue Feb 9 17:30:04 GMT 2010) 

     Year Mo Dy   Hr Mn Secs   Lat      Lon      kmE     kmN     Depth  Mag  Locality                Int  Other information
map  2010 02 07   13 17 47.6   51.956  -4.281    243.3   231.1     7.9  1.2  RHOS,CARMARTHENSHIRE         7KM SE OF RHOS

map  2010 02 04   13 32 12.1   51.194  -4.527    223.5   147.0    17.6  2.1  BRISTOL CHANNEL              10KM EAST OF LUNDY

map  2010 02 02   15 22 51.7   56.237  -3.732    292.7   706.3     2.3  1.6  BLACKFORD,PERTH/KINROSS      

map  2010 02 02   08 32 31.1   56.242  -3.770    290.3   706.9     2.5  1.8  BLACKFORD,PERTH/KINROSS  3   FELT BLACKFORD

map  2010 02 01   08 19 49.3   53.384  -4.481    235.0   390.4     6.5  1.1  ISLE OF ANGLESEY             

map  2010 01 31   19 08 57.9   53.034  -2.514    365.5   348.7     7.3  1.3  NANTWICH,CHESHIRE            

map  2010 01 28   06 17 54.7   53.016  -2.166    388.9   346.6     1.4  1.8  STOKE-ON-TRENT,STAFFS        

map  2010 01 27   07 51 21.7   55.056  -7.392     55.8   586.8     9.2  1.7  COUNTY DONEGAL,IRELAND   3   FELT COUNTY DONEGAL

map  2010 01 27   00 42 12.2   53.023  -2.180    387.9   347.3     1.7  1.8  STOKE-ON-TRENT,STAFFS        

map  2010 01 26   20 47 51.4   55.078  -7.387     56.3   589.2    10.7  1.5  COUNTY DONEGAL,IRELAND   3   FELT COUNTY DONEGAL

map  2010 01 20   16 18 27.5   56.008  -5.843    160.5   686.1     5.8  1.9  JURA,ARGYLL AND BUTE           

map  2010 01 20   13 37 02.2   52.549  -3.957    267.3   296.4     7.7  1.4  FURNACE,CEREDIGION

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?