The BBC is consuming its news slot this morning with hearsay about a
4.7 quake in SE England. There is some talk of an explosion. A viewer
sent in a picture of a seismograph that looks more like an explosion
to my untutored eyes.

The NEIC list says earthquake though. (Only just made it on -the
criteria is that outside the States, they do not list quakes under
4M.) http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/...quakes_all.php

As a corollary to that, the item was on as I switched my TV on just
now. The picture was dire and I was thinking: "Interference.... what
does that mean. I'll have to see what the great Weatherlawyer had to
say previously on the subject." (Not having a database or a good
memory.)

"Weatherlawyer" wrote in message
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The BBC is consuming its news slot this morning with hearsay about a
4.7 quake in SE England. There is some talk of an explosion. A viewer
sent in a picture of a seismograph that looks more like an explosion
to my untutored eyes.

The NEIC list says earthquake though. (Only just made it on -the
criteria is that outside the States, they do not list quakes under
4M.) http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/...quakes_all.php

Try here...
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/...ion/Europe.php

The European Seismological Service reports a 5.0 Earthquake.
Why does Europe have its own monitoring service, when everyone looks at
USGS?

Visit this page for spoken announcements of all quake reports:
http://satellite.ehabich.info/index_speak.html

Eric Habich
http://ehabich.info

"Russel Sprout" schrieb im Newsbeitrag
...

"Weatherlawyer" wrote in message
oups.com...
The BBC is consuming its news slot this morning with hearsay about a
4.7 quake in SE England. There is some talk of an explosion. A viewer
sent in a picture of a seismograph that looks more like an explosion
to my untutored eyes.

The NEIC list says earthquake though. (Only just made it on -the
criteria is that outside the States, they do not list quakes under
4M.)
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/...quakes_all.php

Try here...
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/...ion/Europe.php

On a tatty piece of sub-ether Russel Sprout at said...

"Weatherlawyer" wrote in message
oups.com...
The BBC is consuming its news slot this morning with hearsay about a
4.7 quake in SE England. There is some talk of an explosion. A viewer
sent in a picture of a seismograph that looks more like an explosion
to my untutored eyes.

The NEIC list says earthquake though. (Only just made it on -the
criteria is that outside the States, they do not list quakes under
4M.) http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/...quakes_all.php

Try here...
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/...ion/Europe.php




The location fix from the USGS put it just offshore, S of Dymchurch. So
it's likely the explosion was as a result of the earthquake, not a cause.
--
Rob C. Overfield
Hull

Robb C. Overfield wrote:
On a tatty piece of sub-ether Russel Sprout at
said...

"Weatherlawyer" wrote in message
oups.com...
The BBC is consuming its news slot this morning with hearsay about a
4.7 quake in SE England. There is some talk of an explosion. A
viewer sent in a picture of a seismograph that looks more like an
explosion
to my untutored eyes.

The NEIC list says earthquake though. (Only just made it on -the
criteria is that outside the States, they do not list quakes under
4M.)
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/...quakes_all.php

Try here...
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/...ion/Europe.php




The location fix from the USGS put it just offshore, S of Dymchurch.
So it's likely the explosion was as a result of the earthquake, not a
cause.

BGS interview on the TV indicated that the offshore feature that produced
the event is well known....

"Erich Habich" wrote in message
...
The European Seismological Service reports a 5.0 Earthquake.
Why does Europe have its own monitoring service, when everyone looks at
USGS?

Visit this page for spoken announcements of all quake reports:
http://satellite.ehabich.info/index_speak.html

Eric Habich
http://ehabich.info

Terribly sorry OB, nice site - duly bookmarked.

Erich Habich wrote:
The European Seismological Service reports a 5.0 Earthquake.
Why does Europe have its own monitoring service, when everyone looks at
USGS?


Or more importantly perhaps, why does everyone look to America when we are in
Europe, and have our own services.

However, I noted that lots of people called the fire brigade because their
chimneys had fallen down. Assuming that nobody had a fire burning at that hour
of the morning, and at this time of year, I wondered why they did not phone
their builder and their insurance company (in any order). By the time they
managed to do so, the builders were probably all too busy with those who did.


--
Gianna

http://www.buchan-meteo.org.uk
* * * * * * *

"Gianna" wrote in message
...
Erich Habich wrote:
The European Seismological Service reports a 5.0 Earthquake.
Why does Europe have its own monitoring service, when everyone looks at
USGS?


Or more importantly perhaps, why does everyone look to America when we are
in
Europe, and have our own services.

However, I noted that lots of people called the fire brigade because their
chimneys had fallen down. Assuming that nobody had a fire burning at that
hour
of the morning, and at this time of year, I wondered why they did not
phone
their builder and their insurance company (in any order). By the time
they
managed to do so, the builders were probably all too busy with those who
did.


--
Gianna

The Met Office usually gets quite a few calls in these situations. I was on
the night shift during the 2002 quake and the EMARC bench
(http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/publicsector/emarc/) had a number of enquiries
from the emergency services and the public, much to the initial puzzlement
of the duty staff.

Jon.

On 28 Apr 2007 01:16:34 -0700, Weatherlawyer
wrote:

The BBC is consuming its news slot this morning with hearsay about a
4.7 quake in SE England. There is some talk of an explosion. A viewer
sent in a picture of a seismograph that looks more like an explosion
to my untutored eyes.


-----

I don't suppose this made the 'national' news since it happened more
than 100 miles from London

9 January 2007
Earthquake rocks island of Unst

A STRONG earthquake - one of the largest of its kind in a decade - has
been felt on the Shetland island of Unst.

The earthquake, measuring 4.8 on the Richter scale, was felt at about
1:50am on Sunday. The epicentre was said to be about 130 miles
north-east of Shetland.

Gianna wrote:
Erich Habich wrote:
The European Seismological Service reports a 5.0 Earthquake.
Why does Europe have its own monitoring service, when everyone looks
at USGS?


Or more importantly perhaps, why does everyone look to America when
we are in Europe, and have our own services.

However, I noted that lots of people called the fire brigade because
their chimneys had fallen down. Assuming that nobody had a fire
burning at that hour of the morning, and at this time of year, I
wondered why they did not phone their builder and their insurance
company (in any order). By the time they managed to do so, the
builders were probably all too busy with those who did.

Walking around today it was the fire service that was tasked with making
these chimneys safe. They had the "reach" to get to these largely victorian
chimneys (Folkestone seems to have a chimney style all of it's own. Often
top heavy or needing to be braced with wrought bars to keep them up in
normal conditions, let alone earthquakes!) and the transport and
organisation to make, what some has said, 500 damaged homes safe.
I have seen some stunning ladders and other equipment weilded by the fire
brigade today. Insurers were dealing with out and out emergencies only and I
don't think the local builders would have coped to be honest. To reach up 4
or 5 floors needs either a fire service ladder or a builders scaffold. If
you need to make these peoples homes safe for re-occupation then it's not
going to be feasable to scaffold them all is it?
Quite a day! First thought was truck in side of house, then low level Mach
1+ aircraft directly overhead, then I actually looked for the mushroom
cloud. So much energy released in those few seconds... I didn't think of
earthquake till last. Then realised the double bang was the gap (half a
second?) between S and P waves meant we had to be right over it near
enough....

Another thing to tick off the "Things to Experience" list. Hoping for
aftershocks... I am ready to take notice of it now. When it happens out of
the blue like that it's over so quick (this is going to sound strange) you
miss it...

Les




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