Date (Creation)

1975

Identifier

http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13480080

Maintenance and update frequency

irregular Irregular

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

• Geology

BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences

• Earthquakes
• Seismology
• Earthquake magnitude

dataCentre

• UK Location (INSPIRE)

Keywords

• NERC_DDC

Access constraints

otherRestrictions Other restrictions

Other constraints

no limitations

Other constraints

The dataset is made freely available for access, e.g. via the Internet. Either no third party data / information is contained in the dataset or BGS has secured written permission from the owner(s) of any third party data / information contained in the dataset to make the dataset freely accessible.

Use constraints

otherRestrictions Other restrictions

Other constraints

The copyright of materials derived from the British Geological Survey's work is vested in the Natural Environment Research Council [NERC]. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a retrieval system of any nature, without the prior permission of the copyright holder, via the BGS Intellectual Property Rights Manager. Use by customers of information provided by the BGS, is at the customer's own risk. In view of the disparate sources of information at BGS's disposal, including such material donated to BGS, that BGS accepts in good faith as being accurate, the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) gives no warranty, expressed or implied, as to the quality or accuracy of the information supplied, or to the information's suitability for any use. NERC/BGS accepts no liability whatever in respect of loss, damage, injury or other occurence however caused.

Other constraints

There are no restrictions on the use that may be made of the dataset, although an appropriate copyright acknowledgement must be made when any part of the dataset is reproduced. Either no third party data / information is contained in the dataset or BGS has secured written permission from the owner of any third party data / information contained in the dataset to make the dataset freely available without any use constraints - inclusion of any third party data / information will affect the copyright acknowledgement that needs to be made.

Spatial representation type

vector Vector

Metadata language

EnglishEnglish

Topic category

• Geoscientific information

Geographic identifier

BRITISH ISLES [id=139000]

Date (Creation)

1979

Geographic identifier

CHA

Date (Revision)

2009

Geographic identifier

ENG

Date (Revision)

2009

Geographic identifier

IE

Date (Revision)

2009

Geographic identifier

IOM

Date (Revision)

2009

Geographic identifier

IRL

Date (Revision)

2009

Geographic identifier

NIR

Date (Revision)

2009

Geographic identifier

SCT

Date (Revision)

2009

Geographic identifier

WLS

Date (Revision)

2009

Begin date

1500

End date

1969

Supplemental Information

Early data assembled by Roy Lilwall. PUBLICATION: BGS REPORT WL/94/04. Although there has not been a published update of the catalogue since 1994, the data file has been kept up to date with regards to earthquakes occuring post 1994, revisions have been made to existing entries and some historical events only recently discovered have been added.

Unique resource identifier

OSGB 1936 / British National Grid (EPSG::27700)

Distribution format

• ESRI Shapefile ( 1994 )

OnLine resource

BGS Homepage ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )

The BGS Homepage is an entry point to the BGS data services.

Hierarchy level

dataset Dataset

Other

dataset

Statement

The catalogue of UK Historical Earthquakes was compiled by BGS staff over the course of 20 years of research into macro seismic readings (felt reports). An index of the earthquakes was created and stored in the corporate database and made openly available to users in the early 2000s.

File identifier

9df8df51-6314-37a8-e044-0003ba9b0d98 XML

Metadata language

EnglishEnglish

Hierarchy level

dataset Dataset

Date stamp

2026-03-28

Metadata standard name

UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version

2.3

Dataset URI

http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13480080