Hypocentre

Hypocentre a.k.a.
Dr Ian G. Stimpson. Seismologist, geophysicist and structural geologist at Keele University, U.K.
You can contact me at hypocentre [at] gmail [dot] com.
All opinions are mine and do not necessarily represent those of my employer.
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Nantwich Earthquake 31/01/2010

There was a small earthquake just south of Nantwich, Cheshire on January 31st, 2010 which we recorded here at Keele.

The earthquake magnitude has been determined by the Geological survey to be 1.3

The tremor is most likely related to subsidence or collapse due to dissolution of salt. The bedrock here is the Wilkesley Halite and in [...]