UK Earthquake Catalogue.
Simple
- Date (Creation)
- 1975
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- Maintenance and update frequency
- irregular Irregular
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
- BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences
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- Earthquakes
- Seismology
- Earthquake magnitude
- UK Location (INSPIRE)
- dataCentre
- Keywords
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- NERC_DDC
- Access constraints
- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- No information on access/use constraints
- 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
- Either: (i) the dataset is made freely available, e.g. via the Internet, for a restricted category of use (e.g. educational use only); or (ii) the dataset has not been formally approved by BGS for access and use by external clients under licence, but its use may be permitted under alternative formal arrangements; or (iii) the dataset contains 3rd party data or information obtained by BGS under terms and conditions that must be consulted in order to determine the permitted usage of the dataset. Refer to the BGS staff member responsible for the creation of the dataset if further advice is required. He / she should be familiar with the composition of the dataset, particularly with regard to 3rd party IPR contained in it, and any resultant use restrictions. This staff member should revert to the IPR Section (ipr@bgs.ac.uk ) for advice, should the position not be clear.
- Denominator
- 10000
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Topic category
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- Geoscientific information
- Geographic identifier
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BRITISH ISLES [id=139000]
- Date (Creation)
- 1979
- Geographic identifier
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CHA
- Date (Revision)
- 2009
- Geographic identifier
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ENG
- Date (Revision)
- 2009
- Geographic identifier
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IE
- Date (Revision)
- 2009
- Geographic identifier
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IOM
- Date (Revision)
- 2009
- Geographic identifier
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IRL
- Date (Revision)
- 2009
- Geographic identifier
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NIR
- Date (Revision)
- 2009
- Geographic identifier
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SCT
- Date (Revision)
- 2009
- Geographic identifier
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WLS
- Date (Revision)
- 2009
- Begin date
- 1700 After
- 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.
Reference System Information
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- OnLine resource
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BGS Homepage
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WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
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- Hierarchy level
- dataset Dataset
Conformance result
- Date (Publication)
- 2011
- Explanation
- See the referenced specification
- Pass
- No
Conformance result
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Explanation
- See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF
- Pass
- No
- Statement
- Summary of twenty years of research into historical British earthquakes.
- File identifier
- 9df8df51-6314-37a8-e044-0003ba9b0d98 XML
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Hierarchy level
- dataset Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-11-13
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
- Dataset URI
- http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13480080
Overviews
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