3.9EQ close to English Channel Tunnel

Special alert by BGS of 3.9 at 10km depth, co-ordinates put it very close to English Channel tunnel. Anybody know how EQ proof the tunnel is.

www.earthquakes.bgs.ac.uk...

Also earlier at 7.00am a 4.5 at 15km between Cherbourg and Le Havre

hisz.rsoe.hu...

Think we are trying to cut ties with France Lol!

Rainbows
Jane

hope the channel tunnel does not flood,hundreds of illegal immigrants will get wet.either that or people escaping britain will be washed back

Thanks for this info. I don't know enough about EQ's to post an opinion, but I do find it interesting and not just a little scary that these things do seem to be happening more often in places that we haven't often heard of them happening before. And yes I know, "its all because of the internet and the availability of information", but that doesn't make any less interesting or disturbing!

S&F

Thanks for your comments guys.

Rainbows
jane

i wonder if there was any impact on the chunnel at all???

i certainly wouldnt want to be going through there when there was an earthquake happening

how far inland does the tunnel go, and if the worst happened would that part of the country be flooded. doesnt bear thinking about.

this was posted onto youtube yesterday:

if you haven't got 20 minutes go to 7:30 ish and have a look at what he sais about Europe... interesting!

David Kerridge, from the BGS, said it was the biggest incident of its kind in the area for nearly 300 years. He said: "This is the largest earthquake in this area since a magnitude 4.5 event in 1734."

here's what the bbc are saying

so no this not normal... neither was the mini tsunami on the south coast and earthquake on Dartmoor a few weeks ago

reply to post by truthseeker10


The tunnel starts at Folkestone on the south coast, so doesnt go very far inland.

Just had a look at the BGS site and the French EQ was registered as far north as Galloway! (not being fascetious...but for quick info for those that don't know....it's in Scotish borders!) It was picked up all the way up the West coast of UK....even my dearly beloved Anglesey!

www.earthquakes.bgs.ac.uk...

Just looked at Dutchinsense vid....very interesting, although some of the graphs he was showing I am sure the activity in some was down to weather.....just saying.

Rainbows
Jane

Originally posted by spolvil
i wonder if there was any impact on the chunnel at all???

i certainly wouldnt want to be going through there when there was an earthquake happening

edit on 14/7/2011 by spolvil because: (no reason given)

Hee Hee I was going to use 'chunnel' in my headline...but thought better of it as some of our international friends here wouldn't have a clue what I was talking about, or I'd get comments about my spelling!

Rainbows
Jane

BTW, forgot to mention in my original post that there is a fault line that goes right up the channel! Can't find a link to show it at the mo.

Rainbows
Jane

How the English Channel was formed

Here we go a good basic link to how the Channel was formed (since we broke away from France ) and a bit at the bottom about the problems they 'could' have encountered building the Chunnel.

www.theotherside.co.uk...

Rainbows
Jane

I see this today on BGS. Most of the time quakes in the English channel get marked up as explosions! WWII bombs I think is the culprit.

In answer to your question about fault lines here in the UK, I found this Site with an image of fault lines.

Originally posted by boo1981
I see this today on BGS. Most of the time quakes in the English channel get marked up as explosions! WWII bombs I think is the culprit.

In answer to your question about fault lines here in the UK, I found this Site with an image of fault lines.

Thanks for that link! Wish I could make the map 'stand up' so to speak!

Rainbows
Jane

reply to post by angelchemuel


I was thinking the same. I am going to try find a better one for you and link it here.

Originally posted by boo1981
reply to post by angelchemuel

 

I was thinking the same. I am going to try find a better one for you and link it here.

Thank you.....I have been trying to get some decorating done, and typical....this happens today!
Somebody has mentioned on another site/forum that this could be one in the same EQ......anybody's thoughts on this? I personally think it's 2 seperate ones.

Rainbows
Jane

PS...they also thought it could be a WWII unexploded bomb that caused it!...don't think so going by some 'posters' on this site comparing EQ's with bomb magnitudes! It would have to have been a nuclear one!

reply to post by doubledutch


Brilliant vid thanks for sharing.. just wanted to add that we are susceptible to Tsunamis (especially Southern Britain) hence why our Nuclear power stations, like Dungeness (10ish miles from Folkstone) on the Sussex coast have Tsunami bunds..

It is worth noting the defences at Dungeness are designed to protect the station from a 1 in 10,000 year event... But, here is the interesting part if you research Tsunamis in Southern Britain over the last 300 years it really seems we overdue another major one.

Not the biggest in centuries. There was a 4.3 in the region 4 yrs ago.

The magnitude 4.3 tremor struck at 0819 BST and experts said its epicentre was a few miles off the coast in the English Channel.

news.bbc.co.uk...

Originally posted by truthseeker10
how far inland does the tunnel go, and if the worst happened would that part of the country be flooded. doesnt bear thinking about.

To flood anywhere inland, the tunnel entrance would have to be below sea level.

Water doesn't flow up hill.

reply to post by doubledutch


Great video , many thanks ,

deserves its own thread in my opinion.

thanks

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