Recent Earthquakes Reported by BGS

Earthquakes in and around the British Isles for the last 30 days
(generated on Sat Nov 8 22:30:02 GMT 2008)

Year Mo Dy Hr Mn Secs Lat Lon kmE kmN Depth Mag Locality Int Other information
map 2008 11 03 09 53 42.3 56.375 -5.502 183.8 725.8 14.2 2.5 OBAN,ARGYLL AND BUTE 3 FELT OBAN...

map 2008 10 26 18 06 26.0 52.213 -2.582 360.2 257.4 13.6 3.5 BROMYARD,HEREFORDSHIRE 4 FELT HEREFORDSHIRE...

map 2008 10 24 23 21 37.6 52.761 -2.491 366.9 318.3 3.2 1.8 TELFORD,SHROPSHIRE

map 2008 10 14 02 23 45.6 62.269 1.513 582.3 1381.5 26.4 4.1 NORWEGIAN SEA 275KM NE OF LERWICK

map 2008 10 10 04 28 39.3 56.829 -5.557 183.0 776.5 12.5 3.5 GLENFINNAN,HIGHLAND 4 FELT GLENFINNAN...

Terms used:

Year Mo Dy

Year, month and day of event.

Hr Mn Secs

Time of occurrence of event in hours, mins and secs. Note all times
are in UTC. UTC is
the same as Greenwich Mean Time.

Lat

Latitude of the event, positive latitude indicates north.

Lon

Longitude of the event, negative longitude indicates west. What are latitude and
longitude?

kmE

UK National Grid Reference in kilometres east of grid origin.

kmN

UK National Grid Reference in kilometres north of grid origin. What
is the National Grid Reference?

Dep

Depth of the hypocentre in kilometres.

Mag

Richter local magnitude of the event. What
is magnitude?

Locality

A geographical indication of the epicentral area, usually the nearest
town followed by the region.

Int

Maximum 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?

A map
of the latest UK events