Bloody great earth tremor

On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 11:05:23 GMT, "platypus"

Ah bugger must read whole thread :~)

I blame my scrambled brains

 

I didn't notice a thing, although there was a little aftershock around
6am ;~)

 

And I still made it home in time for breakfast ;-)

 

Heh. There, there.

 

You and your sleepw%&^£&£*^£*nocarrier

 

Eh? Earthquake?

What earthquake?

 

Old plate boundaries? The British Isles is a mish-mash of old and new
rocks anyway, with some of the world's oldest rocks in the North of
Scotland, so **** knows what's going on underneath.
--
Dave
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"A scone and tea at half past three
Makes the day a little brighter
Keep your cakes and fancy tarts
And stick them up your shiter."

 

Another thing that I forgot[1] was that The North is rising and the South
is sinking as a result of receding ice from the Ice Age[2].

[1] Well done Radio 4 for reminding me.
[2] We are still in an Ice Age, just not not here.

 

On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:52:04 +0000, prawn wrote:

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ITYM as a result of isostatic equilibrium.

 

Err...student of geology here, firstly 5.2 isn't really very strong,
and it appears to have been on an old fault that got reactivated, as
rocks aren't really very flexible at the surface, and continental
margins don't run in neat straight lines, strain can penetrate a very
long way into continental interiors. For anything more detailed than
that, I would have to ask me lecturers, and the geophysics ones were
all rather busy yesterday (there were media types around filming the
seismograph and asking various questions of at least one geophysics
lecturer)

 

I mentioned that IANA geologist up ^^ there somewhere.

 

Besides, it's isostatic rebound caused by the ice receeding after the
most recent glaciation, so you weren't actually wrong.

 

His pelvis is at the top of your street? **** me!


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