Summary
DATE | 09/06/2018 |
ORIGIN TIME | 22:14:28.9 UTC |
LOCATION | 53.648 -0.055 |
DEPTH | 19 km |
MAGNITUDE | 3.8 |
LOCALITY | GRIMSBY,NE LINCOLNSHIRE |
Felt in NE Lincolnshire, North Lincolnshire, Kingston-upon-Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, West Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, York, Rutland, Leicestershire, Peterborough, Nottinghamshire and Norfolk.
This is the largest earthquake in the area (within 50km) since the magnitude 5.2 ML Market Rasen event on 27 February 2008, which was felt throughout England and Wales. This is a region that has experienced a few earthquakes of this )size, and larger, in the historical past. In 1703, a magnitude 4.2 event occurred near Hull, in 1750 a magnitude 4.7 event occurred in the Southern North Sea (approximately 20 km offshore Mablethorpe) and in 1954, a magnitude 4.2 event occurred near Bridlington.