Showing posts with label uk earthquake. Show all posts
Showing posts with label uk earthquake. Show all posts

Wednesday, 27 February 2008

How was it for you?

Unfortunately, I was fast asleep at 1am, and missed all the excitement... Would be great to have some comments with your experiences of the UK's biggest earthquake since 1984 though!

There are lots of articles on the BBC website, and several video clips showing interviews with a seismologist and with various eyewitnesses (including Matt, a former Swanwick student who is now at university in Hull!) and one video clip filmed by some students as the earthquake happened.

Particularly interesting is this article which looks at how and why small-scale earthquakes occur in the UK, despite us being quite a long way from any of the major plate boundaries.

The British Geological Survey have a press release on their website which includes seismographs of from this morning's earthquake, and a questionnaire for people to contribute their experiences to the studies of the earthquake that the BGS are carrying out.

A little bit ironic that I had had a dicussion with my Yr9 group yesterday about the fact that we have little in the way of tectonic activity in the UK though!