Map based index (GeoIndex) modern and historical recorded earthquakes

This layer of the map based index (GeoIndex) shows the location of earthquakes within the UK. The historical catalogue has been compiled, in general, from macroseismic observations (ie felt effects). Before 1700, only earthquakes with magnitudes of 4.0 ML or greater are included. After 1700, all known events with magnitudes of 3.0 ML or greater are included together with some other, smaller ones. Accuracies of magnitude, location, and origin time vary with the quality of information available for this period as they do for instrumental measurements in the post 1970 period. In that case, variations are largely a function of the seismograph station coverage, which has been improving up to the present day.

Date (Creation): 2000

Identifier: http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13605448

Distributor

British Geological Survey - Enquiries

Environmental Science Centre, Nicker Hill, Keyworth , NOTTINGHAM , NOTTINGHAMSHIRE , NG12 5GG , United Kingdom

0115 936 3143
0115 936 3276

Point of contact

British Geological Survey - Enquiries

Environmental Science Centre, Nicker Hill, Keyworth , NOTTINGHAM , NOTTINGHAMSHIRE , NG12 5GG , United Kingdom

0115 936 3143
0115 936 3276

Maintenance and update frequency: asNeeded As needed

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Geology

BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences

Scottish SDI
Seismicity
Seismographs
Seismic monitoring
Earthquakes
Seismic event
UK Location (INSPIRE)

dataCentre

Keywords

NERC_DDC

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Spatial representation type: vector Vector

Denominator: 10000000

Metadata language: EnglishEnglish

Topic category

Geoscientific information

Geographic identifier

GBN

Date (Revision): 2009

Geographic identifier

GREAT BRITAIN [id=139600]

Date (Creation): 1979

End date: 2014-01 Before

Supplemental Information: Data visible at all map scales.

Unique resource identifier: OSGB 1936 / British National Grid (EPSG::27700)

Distribution format

Geographic Information System ()

Distributor

British Geological Survey - Enquiries

Environmental Science Centre, Nicker Hill, Keyworth , NOTTINGHAM , NOTTINGHAMSHIRE , NG12 5GG , United Kingdom

0115 936 3143
0115 936 3276

OnLine resource: GeoIndex Onshore: Modern instrument recorded earthquakes ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )

OnLine resource: GeoIndex Onshore: Historical earthquakes ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )

OnLine resource: GeoIndex - Hazards data theme ( OGC:WMS )
Service endpoint for GeoIndex - Hazards data theme service; this link is intended for client access.

OnLine resource: GeoIndex - Hazards data theme ( OGC:WMS-1.3.0-http-get-capabilities )

Hierarchy level: dataset Dataset

Other: 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: GeoIndex is a publically-accessible map-based index to the datasets that BGS have collected or have obtained from other sources. All datasets presented are derived from the BGS corporate data holdings.