Earthquake, magnitude 4.1, in Bristol Channel 20/02/14

[Peter Mugridge]

OK…. We’ve had the floods, now the earthquake. What’s next? Locusts?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-26277432

The 4.1 magnitude quake happened at about 13:21 GMT and was felt in Somerset, Devon and south Wales.

The epicentre was north of Ilfracombe, Devon, and south of the Gower in Wales and was at a depth of 3.1 miles (5km).

Devon and Cornwall Police said it had received "a few" calls from the North Devon area with one caller describing it as "quite a violent tremor".

The BGS said it had received reports of people feeling the quake in Dartmoor, Bristol, Taunton, Swansea, Llanelli, Exmouth, Barnstaple, Gloucester and South Molton.

 

[DavidBrown]

Somehow, this completely passed me by. Felt nothing whatsoever in Ilfracombe - plenty of others on Facebook have said they did notice it though. Still, there's always the apocalypse to look forward to...

 

[Greenback]

Felt it this afternoon, I thought next door had done something (they are having a lot of renovation work done). It was if the house jumped!

 

[tranzitjim]

Are earthquakes common or rare in that part of the world?

 

[Giugiaro]

There are several tiny fractures around smaller regions that sometimes can make a very quick shake.

I once felt one which had the epicentre at 4 km away from my location and was 3.1 in Richter scale. It felt like someone blew some extra dynamite underground.

[EDIT]

Seismic Map of the British Islands. If someone finds a better one, please post

 

[Southwest]

Earthquake, magnitude 4.1, in Bristol Channel 20/02/14

Caused £1M worth of improvements....sorry guys, just my Friday afternoon humour.

 

[melena]

Felt a tremor from a quake very early one morning up here in east yorks a few years ago. A loud rumbling and house shook like it was on a base of jelly.

 

[michael769]

Are earthquakes common or rare in that part of the world?

Britain has a magnitude 4 quake every 2 years.

 

[Peter Mugridge]

...and about 200 smaller ones every year, most of which nobody would notice as they wouldn't feel any worse than a lorry rumbling past.

Everything in the past 50 days is here:

http://www.earthquakes.bgs.ac.uk/earthquakes/recent_uk_events.html

Ignore the New Ollerton cluster though; this is thought to be old mine workings collapsing.