Staffordshire « Hypo-theses

Stoke-on-Trent Earthquakes Recorded at Keele

Two more small local earthquakes have occurred in Stoke-On-Trent following on from the two that happened on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Both were magnitude 1.8 and are probably related to old mine workings beneath the city.

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Stoke-on-Trent Christmas Earthquakes 2009

I was convinced that I felt an earthquake last night. I was just drifting off to sleep and must have drempt it as there was no record of our seismometer when I got into work this morning. However, in checking my iPhone for (non-existent) earthquake reports I did come across two local earthquakes that [...]

Extreme Gardening

This weekend I’ve been involved in a bit of geoconservation work a.k.a. extreme gardening. Working with the Staffordshire RIGS group, we were cleaning up a couple of outcrops along the Hamps and Manifold Geotrail at a site called Ladyside Wood (Location 19 on the map below). The parent body of Staffordshire RIGS, UKRIGS (UK [...]

Wrong Rock II

I’ve just finished preparing a presentation I’m giving at the 15th European Meeting of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics of the Near Surface Geoscience Division of EAGE (or Near Surface 2009). I’m so used to talking for a micro-century (~50 minutes) in lectures, it is hard to discipline one’s self to a 15 minute slot. [...]

Ossum’s Hill

Recently I attended a geological walk lead by Mike Allen from the South Peak Estate of the National Trust to have a look at a new geological section that has been opened upon the side of Ossum’s Hill above the Manifold Valley in the Staffordshire part of the Peak District. The geology of the [...]