Earthquake recorded in East Lancashire (From Lancashire Telegraph)
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Earthquake recorded in East Lancashire
8:17am Monday 19th December 2011 in News
By Catherine Pye, Health reporter
EAST Lancashire was hit by an earthquake over the weekend, experts revealed this morning.
The British Geological Survey recorded a quake of 2.2 magnitude at 2.33pm on Saturday, that they say was felt nine kilometres south, south east of Blackburn - in the Darwen area.
Scientists said the epicentre was at at depth of seven kilometres.
A measurement of 2.2. on the Richter scale is deemed as 'minor', not generally felt, but strong enough to be recorded.
There are about 1.3million quakes of a similar magnitude each year worldwide.
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sonny
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8:59am Mon 19 Dec 11
'Kean on getting out..!
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9:00am Mon 19 Dec 11
Cuadrilla began drilling at the end of March 2011, but just days later on 1st April a tremor of magnitude 2.3 on the Richter scale hit the area. This was followed by a second of magnitude 1.4 on 27th May. Locals and environmental campaigners quickly pointed the finger at the hydraulic fracturing, or ‘fracking’ being conducted by oil and gas firm Cuadrilla.
Cuadrilla bowed to the inevitable and temporarily stopped drilling so that an independent assessment could be carried out, their press release saying:
“We take our responsibilities very seriously and that is why we have stopped fracing operations to share information and consult with the relevant authorities and other experts. We expect that this analysis and subsequent consultation will take a number of weeks to conclude and we will decide on appropriate actions after that”
The British Geological Survey (BGS) have since completed their survey, and have said that the correlations between the earthquakes and the time of fracking operations and the proximity of the quakes to the site, all pointed towards the earthquakes being a result of the fracking process.In the meantime, environmental campaign groups like Frack Off will continue to try and raise awareness of the dangers and pressure the Government to change its mind. Only this morning in fact we see stories of more earthquakes
even though early reports suggested it was the Happycyclist dropping his Christmas benefits cheque.
info@frack-off.org.
ossybsting
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9:37am Mon 19 Dec 11
brfcianbrfc
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12:51pm Mon 19 Dec 11
'Kean on getting out..!
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2:04pm Mon 19 Dec 11
brfcianbrfc wrote:**** she said same to me.
My wife said she felt the earth move..
Gaius Grossus
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2:58pm Mon 19 Dec 11
ToffeeGuy
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3:40pm Mon 19 Dec 11
Michael@ClitheroeSince58
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5:25pm Mon 19 Dec 11
'Kean on getting out..! wrote:And me
brfcianbrfc wrote:**** she said same to me.
My wife said she felt the earth move..
makaveli96
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6:41pm Mon 19 Dec 11
Name: Robin
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turd moor
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6:43pm Mon 19 Dec 11
Michael@ClitheroeSingood gosh,she doesn't half get around doesn't she
ce58 wrote:
'Kean on getting out..! wrote:And me
brfcianbrfc wrote:**** she said same to me.
My wife said she felt the earth move..
s_smith
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8:06pm Mon 19 Dec 11
Gaius Grossus wrote:Exactly... in WEST Lancashire. This was 9km SSE of Blackburn. There is no shale gas extraction going on there... so lets keep our nonsensical hysteria over fracking to a minimum shall we?
Ermm, the company accepted that the 2 tremors near Blackpool was related to their activities.
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Neither "earthquake" in the Fylde area caused any damage. Hell, they were barely felt.
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http://earthquakes.b
gs.ac.uk/earthquakes
/recent_uk_events.ht
ml
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That should put things in perspective. There have been three 2.2mag quakes across the country in the last three days and many such more in the last 12 months. The Fylde "quakes" are nothing greater than any of the ones not attributed to fracking.
s_smith
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8:07pm Mon 19 Dec 11
Wishingwell
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8:13pm Mon 19 Dec 11
'Kean on getting out..!
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10:42pm Mon 19 Dec 11
s_smith wrote:The British Geological Survey (BGS) have since completed their survey, and have said that the correlations between the earthquakes and the time of fracking operations and the proximity of the quakes to the site, all pointed towards the earthquakes being a result of the fracking process.In the meantime, environmental campaign groups like Frack Off will continue to try and raise awareness of the dangers and pressure the Government to change its mind.Who do you believe the British Geological Survey(BGS) or Mr Smiths reassurance that 'its nothing to do with Fracking?
Gaius Grossus wrote:Exactly... in WEST Lancashire. This was 9km SSE of Blackburn. There is no shale gas extraction going on there... so lets keep our nonsensical hysteria over fracking to a minimum shall we?
Ermm, the company accepted that the 2 tremors near Blackpool was related to their activities.
.
Neither "earthquake" in the Fylde area caused any damage. Hell, they were barely felt.
.
http://earthquakes.b
gs.ac.uk/earthquakes
/recent_uk_events.ht
ml
.
That should put things in perspective. There have been three 2.2mag quakes across the country in the last three days and many such more in the last 12 months. The Fylde "quakes" are nothing greater than any of the ones not attributed to fracking.
info@frack-off.org.
gazzandste
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10:47pm Mon 19 Dec 11
ianbev26
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7:55am Tue 20 Dec 11
brok
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9:28am Tue 20 Dec 11
"didn,t do any damage in darwen ? that won,t do. paul brown will have nothing to moan about "
Did you mean didn't and won't?
'Kean on getting out..! says...
8:22am Mon 19 Dec 11