BGSseismology

If you’re looking at live station data or recent earthquakes on our website this weekend they won’t be updating while our main data centre gets an essential upgrade. This wont effect detection and analysis of earthquakes which will continue using our backup data centre.

We have an ongoing fault with one of our data centres affecting many of our webpages, including those about earthquakes, and those showing data from seismic stations. We are still recording and analysing seismic data, we just cant display it publicly for the moment.

@beechspider Hi, you can submit a felt report at earthquakes.bgs.ac.uk/questionnaire/…. Any earthquakes we detect are posted on earthquakes.bgs.ac.uk/earthquakes/re…

Anyone looking at our live seismic data from today (earthquakes.bgs.ac.uk/helicorder/hel…) and wondering what's happening this mornings 6.7Mw earthquake in Panama is clearly visible on almost all stations, shown here arriving on our stations in England, Scotland and the Channel islands.

We've detected a 2.4ML earthquake near Wigan, Greater Manchester, this afternoon. No felt reports so far. Full details on our website (earthquakes.bgs.ac.uk/earthquakes/re…) where felt reports can also be left. image shows the arrivals on nearby BGS stations.

We're all ready to welcome you to the #BGSOpenDay today! See you soon!

Today we’ve started construction of our newest permanent station, BEDF in Suffolk. This is the cement pour for the base of the vault.

To put today's 3.8ML earthquake in Shropshire into historical context this map shows previous earthquake activity in the area.

Given it's size this has been clearly resolved across many of our stations in England and Wales. You can look at the data from all our stations at earthquakes.bgs.ac.uk/helicorder/hel…, and summitted felt reports are always appreciated!

We detected a 2.1ML earthquake on the Isle of Arran at 0759 this morning, here seen arriving on our stations in Scotland and Northern England. More details available on our website- earthquakes.bgs.ac.uk/earthquakes/re….

Seismometers that we deployed last week near Pitlochry, Perthshire and Tarland, Aberdeenshire as part of the project picked up the waves that had travelled through the Earth from the M6.8 #earthquake in Argentina yesterday, over 10,000km away! @BGSseismology

A second real time temporary station as part @PICTS_project going in, this one near Tarland, Aberdeenshire.

This is a new temporary station we’ve deployed east of Pitlochry as part of @PICTS_project. The data is already coming into our servers, but it may take a few days before it shows up on our website.

Anyone looking with confusion at our station data today in the very long period (earthquakes.bgs.ac.uk/helicorder/hel…) you're seeing this mornings Nicaragua earthquake (6.7Mw) as it arrives across the UK.

We’re in Surrey this week removing stations GATW, HORS, STAN and RUSH. Station BRDL will become a permanent station. This small dense array was used to study the Newdigate earthquake swarm of 2018, with its removal delayed by COVID.

Here's an image of last nights Walsall earthquake as recorded on some nearby stations. Thanks to everybody whose taken the time to submit a felt earthquake report- earthquakes.bgs.ac.uk/questionnaire/…

BGS SEISMIC INFORMATION:  WALSALL, WEST MIDLANDS  22:59 UTC  2.8 ML    DATE: 21 February 2022 ORIGIN TIME: 22:59 29.7s UTC LAT/LON: 52.549° North / 1.972° West GRID REF: 401.90 kmE / 294.61 kmN DEPTH: 7 km MAGNITUDE: 2.8 ML INTENSITY: 3 EMS LOCALITY: Walsall, West Midlands

The M3.6 quake in the Central Graben of the North Sea on 26 January is one of a number of M3+ events in the vicinity of the Elgin, Franklin and Shearwater fields in recent years including a M4.2 in 2019. @BGSseismology

Here's the event as it arrived on our stations in Scotland (EDI, ESK, ESY, LINV) and England (EDMD, LBWR).

SEISMIC INFORMATION: CENTRAL NORTH SEA 31 JANUARY 2022 3.6 ML DATE: 31 January 2022 ORIGIN TIME: 14:37 18s UTC LAT/LON: 56.985° North / 1.834° East GRID REF: 632.91 kmE / 794.72 kmN DEPTH: 14km MAGNITUDE: 3.6 ML LOCALITY: Central North Sea (approx 235km east Aberdeen)