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UK Earthquake Catalogue.

Earthquake catalogue of all known UK events greater than magnitude 4 ML, and greater than 3 ML, post 1700. The catalogue covers the offshore areas as well as mainland UK, covering an area between 10 degrees West to 4 degrees East and 49 degrees to 62 degrees North. This includes all of Ireland and some earthquakes in northern France that were also felt in the UK. Earthquakes outside this area are also included if they were felt in the UK.

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Date (Creation)
1975
Identifier
http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13480080
Distributor
  British Geological Survey - Enquiries
The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South , EDINBURGH , LOTHIAN , EH14 4AP , United Kingdom
0115 936 3142
0115 936 3276
Custodian
  British Geological Survey - Enquiries
The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South , EDINBURGH , LOTHIAN , EH14 4AP , United Kingdom
0115 936 3142
0115 936 3276
Distributor
  British Geological Survey - Enquiries
Murchison House, West Mains Road , EDINBURGH , LOTHIAN , EH9 3LA , United Kingdom
0115 936 3142
0115 936 3192
Originator
  British Geological Survey - Enquiries
Murchison House, West Mains Road , EDINBURGH , LOTHIAN , EH9 3LA , United Kingdom
0115 936 3142
0115 936 3192
Point of contact
  British Geological Survey - Enquiries
Murchison House, West Mains Road , EDINBURGH , LOTHIAN , EH9 3LA , United Kingdom
0115 936 3142
0115 936 3192
Maintenance and update frequency
irregular Irregular
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • Geology
BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences
  • Earthquakes
  • Seismology
  • Earthquake magnitude
  • UK Location (INSPIRE)
dataCentre
  • UK Location (INSPIRE)
Keywords
  • NERC_DDC
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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
  • 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

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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.

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Distributor
  British Geological Survey - Enquiries
The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South , EDINBURGH , LOTHIAN , EH14 4AP , United Kingdom
0115 936 3142
0115 936 3276
Distributor
  British Geological Survey - Enquiries
Murchison House, West Mains Road , EDINBURGH , LOTHIAN , EH9 3LA , United Kingdom
0115 936 3142
0115 936 3192
OnLine resource
BGS Homepage ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )

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

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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
Point of contact
  British Geological Survey
Murchison House, West Mains Road , EDINBURGH , LOTHIAN , EH9 3LA , United Kingdom
+44 131 667 1000
Dataset URI
http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13480080
 
 

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