Earthquake in Leighton Buzzard? What next 2020??’ Shocked residents report ‘houses shaking’ and ‘windows rattling’ after 3.9 tremor strikes in Bedfordshire town which is felt across Home Counties Tremors reported in Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire One local said they ‘felt their whole house shake’ when earthquake struck Some 610,000 people live in the affected area … Read more
Earthquake strikes English Channel with magnitude 3 tremors rocking Sussex coast By Danyal Hussain For Mailonline Published: 10:31 BST, 13 August 2020 | Updated: 10:56 BST, 13 August 2020 A magnitude-3 earthquake has rocked Sussex after hitting the English Channel. The tremor was detected in the sea this morning at 9am, around 30 miles from Eastbourne. … Read more
Google turns Androids into ‘mini seismometer’ by alerting users of an earthquake before it strikes Google is alert Android users of an earthquake minutes before it strikes The firm generates alerts from using over 700 seismometers in California Google is set to ask users in Google search if they felt a nearby quake By Stacy Liberatore For … Read more
Rare ‘boomerang’ earthquake is tracked across the Atlantic ocean for the first time – shedding light on the kind of devastation these events could wreak on land With a boomerang earthquake the path of the quake runs back at a faster rate Researchers used underwater monitoring stations to track a earthquake in 2016 The team … Read more
Earthquake in Alaska: Tsunami warning after enormous 7.8m tremor strikes off coast The shallow quake hit at 6.12am Wednesday and triggered a tsunami warning It hit around 500 miles southwest of Anchorage and 60 miles south of Perryville By Emer Scully For Mailonline Published: 08:10 BST, 22 July 2020 | Updated: 08:17 BST, 22 July … Read more
Powerful 6.6-magnitude earthquake strikes off Indonesia The earthquake hit the Java Sea off the Indonesian coast on Tuesday morning The Bureau of Meteorology has said there is no threat of a tsunami No injuries have been reported and the earthquake was felt 800km away in Bali By Eliza Mcphee For Daily Mail Australia Published: 01:11 … Read more
Japan launches new 223mph bullet train that can ‘escape’ to safety in the event of an earthquake The N700S serves the Tokaido Shinkansen line which connects Tokyo with Osaka and Kobe It became the world’s first high-speed line when the first bullet trains began running on it on October 1, 1964 The train has an … Read more
Central California is rocked by a 5.8 magnitude earthquake and more than TEN aftershocks triggering a rock slide just two days after a 4.6 quake in the same area The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake struck at 10.40am and was centered 60 miles (96.5 kilometers) northwest of Ridgecrest in the Owens Valley region It … Read more
Powerful 7.5-magnitude earthquake hits southern Mexico and triggers tsunami warning as buildings shakes and hundreds flee their homes A 7.5 earthquake hit the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca on Tuesday morning One person died in the Oaxaca city of Crucecita The tremor eclipsed the September 19, 2019 earthquake in the central state of Puebla that … Read more
A strange ‘swarm’ of small earthquakes in California that lasted nearly four years was triggered by fluid spilling into the fault system from underground reservoirs, scientists say. The naturally occurring injection of underground fluid drove the earthquake swarm near Cahuilla in Southern California, which occurred in bursts around the region from early 2016 to late … Read more