GBR BGS Modern instrument recorded earthquakes

This layer shows the location of recent (post 1970) earthquakes within the UK. The British Geological Survey (BGS) has been charged with the task of operating and further developing a uniform network of seismograph stations throughout the UK in order to acquire standardised data on a long-term basis. The project is supported by a group of organisations under the chairmanship of the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) with major financial input from the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). The aims of the BGS Seismic Monitoring and Information Service are to develop and maintain a national database of seismic activity in the UK for use in seismic hazard assessment, and to provide near-immediate responses to the occurrence, or reported occurrence, of significant events to its customers and sponsors. A 24-hr on-call service is maintained for this purpose. Almost every week, seismic events are reported to be felt somewhere in the UK. A number of these prove to be sonic booms or are otherwise spurious, but a large proportion are natural or mining induced earthquakes often felt at intensities which cause concern and, occasionally, some damage. In an average year, some 200 earthquakes are detected and located by BGS with around 15% being felt by people. Within the 50-station, high sensitivity monitoring network, 20 strong motion instruments have been integrated. Data from all sensors is available for analysis and interpretation by BGS scientists in Edinburgh, in near real time, through internet links. The high sensitivity network has been expanded to cover the whole country since the 1970's and achieves a detection threshold for magnitude 2.0 earthquakes throughout the land area even in high noise conditions. All earthquakes of magnitude 2.5 and above have been captured since 1979. For more information about earthquakes, visit www.earthquakes.bgs.ac.uk or contact enquiries@bgs.ac.uk. Accuracies of magnitude, location, and origin time variations are largely a function of the seismograph station coverage, which has been improving up to the present day.

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Date (Revision): 2022-04-08T08:24:51

Status: Completed

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
British Geological Survey	Garry Baker	enquiries@bgs.ac.uk	Point of contact

Theme

Hazards
GeoIndex
Modern instrument recorded earthquakes
OneGeology
continent@Europe
subcontinent@Northern Europe
geographicarea@United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
dataprovider@British Geological Survey
serviceprovider@British Geological Survey
DS_TOPIC@geoscientificinformation
DS_DATE@2022
thematic@Geophysics
thematic@Geologic hazards
thematic@Seismology
thematic@Earthquake

Topic category

Geoscientific information

Reference system identifier: CRS:84

Reference system identifier: EPSG:4326

Reference system identifier: EPSG:4258

Reference system identifier: EPSG:27700

Reference system identifier: EPSG:3857

Distribution format

Name	Version

OnLine resource

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