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.
dataset
https://map.bgs.ac.uk/arcgis/services/GeoIndex_Onshore/hazards/MapServer/WMSServer?
name: Hazards map theme
description: The wms layer for 'GeoIndex modern and historical recorded earthquakes' is held within the 'Hazards' theme WMS layer which this URL connects to.
function: download
http://mapapps2.bgs.ac.uk/geoindex/home.html?layer=BGSModernEq
name: GeoIndex modern instrument recorded earthquakes
function: information
http://mapapps2.bgs.ac.uk/geoindex/home.html?layer=BGSHistEq
name: GeoIndex historical earthquakes
function: information
http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13605448
eng
Data visible at all map scales.
geoscientificInformation
publication
2008-06-01
Seismicity
Seismographs
Seismic monitoring
Earthquakes
Seismic event
revision
2011
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1.7800
60.8600
49.7700
revision
2009
GBN
creation
1979
GREAT BRITAIN [id=139600]
2014-01
creation
2000
asNeeded
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.
publication
2011
false
See the referenced specification
publication
2010-12-08
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See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF
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