East Lancashire earthquake goes unnoticed (From Lancashire Telegraph)
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East Lancashire earthquake goes unnoticed
2:35pm Tuesday 20th December 2011 in News
Earthquake The Grey Mare
THE earth moved in East Lancashire over the weekend — but nobody felt it!
Experts revealed the region was hit by an earthquake on Saturday.
The British Geological Survey recorded a quake of 2.2 magnitude at 2.33pm around five and a half miles south, south east of Blackburn — the moorland between Darwen and Haslingden.
Scientists said the epicentre was at a depth of four and a half miles.
A measurement of 2.2 on the Richter scale is deemed as ‘minor’, and is not generally felt, but is strong enough to be recorded.
There are about 1,300,000 quakes of a similar magnitude each year worldwide.
A spokeswoman for the British Geological Survey (BGS) said: “An earthquake measuring 2.2 is a typical British earthquake, and they happen about 20 to 30 times a year.
“We haven’t had any reports of people feeling it, but that’s fairly typical for the size and for the time if day it happened.
“Only about 10 per cent of earthquakes that size are ever felt.”
Staff at the Grey Mare pub in Grane Road, near to the epicenter, said they hadn’t noticed anything unusual.
A spokesman for the pub said: “We had no idea, it was business as usual for us on Saturday.
“The earth didn’t move for us.”
Neither Lancashire Fire and Rescue, nor Lancashire Police, said they were aware of the incident and nobody had called to report anything.
Comments(14)
bikerjohn_uk
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3:19pm Tue 20 Dec 11
Keep Darwen Green
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3:22pm Tue 20 Dec 11
frank
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3:56pm Tue 20 Dec 11
maybe this explains why no one felt it?????
hardly a quake was it? more a rumble from a passing lorry.
harrythehamster
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4:48pm Tue 20 Dec 11
Keep Darwen Green wrote:or a trembling bottom lip
I think it was the sound of a tank sucking in
'Kean on getting out..!
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4:59pm Tue 20 Dec 11
bikerjohn_uk 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. Only this morning in fact we see stories of more earthquakes
No doubt all the "NIMBYs" will be blaming it on fracking...
even though early reports suggested it was the Happycyclist dropping his Christmas benefits cheque.
info@frack-off.org.
Keep Darwen Green
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5:39pm Tue 20 Dec 11
harrythehamster wrote:You're not kidding
Keep Darwen Green wrote:or a trembling bottom lip
I think it was the sound of a tank sucking in
rovergeoff
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5:45pm Tue 20 Dec 11
HelmshoreBoy
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7:19pm Tue 20 Dec 11
But hang on a minute. The LT have already covered this angle!
Doh!
s_smith
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1:26am Wed 21 Dec 11
'Kean on getting out..! wrote:Your point being what exactly?
bikerjohn_uk 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. Only this morning in fact we see stories of more earthquakes
No doubt all the "NIMBYs" will be blaming it on fracking...
even though early reports suggested it was the Happycyclist dropping his Christmas benefits cheque.
info@frack-off.org.
Dusty Snatchmonger
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9:09am Wed 21 Dec 11
gudari
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10:11am Wed 21 Dec 11
gudari
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10:14am Wed 21 Dec 11
wotever
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3:53pm Thu 22 Dec 11
Honest John says...
3:06pm Tue 20 Dec 11