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  • Are yesterday's earthquakes tomorrow's disasters?
  • Creating 'virtual seismometers' deep inside the Earth
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  • Is earthquake activity related to the Moon or Sun?
  • Is earthquake activity increasing? | April 2010

2012

  • Islay Earthquakes February 2012

2011

  • English Channel | Magnitude 3.9 | 14 July 2011
  • Blackpool earthquake | Magnitude 1.5 | 27 May 2011
  • Lorca south-east Spain | Magnitude 5.2 | 11 May 2011
  • Blackpool earthquake | Magnitude 2.3 | 1 April 2011

Great Tohoku earthquake

Tohoku epicentre
  • Tohoku-oki tsunami of 11 March 2011 | One year on
  • Great Tohoku earthquake (north-east Honshu, Japan) | Magnitude 9.0 | 11 March 2011
  • Aftershocks Great Tohoku earthquake (north-east Honshu, Japan) 2011
  • Could a Tsunami hit the British Isles?
  • Tohoku, Japan earthquake FAQs | Magnitude 9.0 | 11 March 2011
  • Tsunami sediments study and satellite mapping | Japan fieldwork 2011
  • The Tohoku-oki tsunami of March 11th 2011 – one year on

Christchurch

Collapsed building
  • Christchurch, New Zealand earthquake | Magnitude 6.3 | 21 Feb 2011
  • BGS geologist caught up in Christchurch earthquake
  • Christchurch EEFIT mission

British Isles

  • Glenuig, Highland earthquake | Magnitude 3.5 | 23 Jan 2011
  • Ripon, North Yorkshire earthquake | Magnitude 3.6 | 3 Jan 2011

2010

British Isles

  • Coniston, Cumbria earthquake | Magnitude 3.5 | 21 Dec 2010

Haiti

Haiti epicentre
  • Haiti earthquake | Magnitude 7.0 | 12 January 2010
  • Damage from the Haiti earthquake viewed from above

Contact

Contact Brian Baptie for further information.

See also
  • Earthquakes website
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  • Have you felt a UK earthquake?

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