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The UK is surprisingly active when you look, but fortunately at a low level mostly. I guess if there were a fault line through the channel tunnels path then that could be interesting but I think its all chalk under the channel (it was mentioned recently on a TV programme "Coast")

This show the more significant ones but the dates are puzzling 😀 as they go back to the 1300's

Significant British Earthquakes
 
#9
Reason I remember this is because before the tunnel was built an American news features show ran this lengthy piece on the protests against the tunnel. The people in the area were dead set against it, which I found curious because in America politicians fight tooth and nail to get projects built in their districts for the jobs.

A spokeswoman for one of the protest groups said that there was an earthquake in the area in the 1300s and that was one of the reasons they opposed it, (along with a long list of other things).

The TV showed the protestors as somewhat silly, I don't know if that is accurate or not.

Anyhow your link shows the 1300s earthquake, but also mild earthquakes in nearby Dover in the 1500s, Normandy, (near Calais, the French outlet), in the 1800s and even at the British outlet in Folkestone in 2007. So maybe the lady wasn't all that loony after all. 😀

Apparently the quakes were nothing huge, but when you mentioned British earthquakes that old TV show just popped up in my mind.
 
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Charles Darwin said:
I felt the '02 one but I was living no more than 3 miles from the epicentre.
It was quite disconcerting.

I suppose they extrapolated the magnitude of the old medieval 'quakes from the damage they did according to witnesses at the time.
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I can imagine it was.

The ones I remember are one from the mid 80's (it would be the Lleyn peninsula one... it was a Sunday I think... the day we all went to the Liverpool Garden Festival) and one around 5 years ago which was a bit scary. I guess it was very local, I was just going to say 🙂 but the Market Rasen one would fit the time and what I think was the year and month. Its a fair way from here though. Something woke me and I remember standing up and feeling unsteady, the whole house going to and fro. It brought many out of their houses wondering what was going on.
 
#15
For those who live in central and south Europe (active seismic zone), this magnitude is 😴 In our country, which is not so affected than Italy or Greece, we feel at least 4-5 similar earthquakes per year. But we have a strict Eurocode building rules...of coarse, we hope they will not be tested in practice 😎


Is there any earthquake proof standard in UK for public buildings?
 
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supernet said:
For those who live in central and south Europe (active seismic zone), this magnitude is 😴 In our country, which is not so affected than Italy or Greece, we feel at least 4-5 similar earthquakes per year. But we have a strict Eurocode building rules...of coarse, we hope they will not be tested in practice 😎


Is there any earthquake proof standard in UK for public buildings?
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Our quakes might be boring to you but just sometimes boring is good! ;-)
 
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