Eeep

Just got woken up by an Earthquake! Is now up on BGS website... Was actually rather scary. Not felt by parents in Guildford, but shook Jon in Manchester.

European version: http://www.emsc-csem.org/ since the UK one is being hammered at the moment!

EDIT: http://www.emsc-csem.org/index.php?page=current&sub=indepth&id=AUP14;INFO - if you want to fill in the report, use IE not Firefox... :¬/

Summary:

Magnitude	mb 4.9
Region	ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM
	English Midlands
Date time	2008-02-27 at 00:56:45.6 UTC
Location	53.38 N ; 0.21 W
Depth	26 km
Distances	42 km S Kingston upon hull (pop 302,296 ; local time 00:56 2008-02-27) 13 km W Louth (pop 16,635 ; local time 00:56 2008-02-27) 8 km E Market rasen (pop 3,569 ; local time 00:56 2008-02-27)

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2008nyae.php

Earthquake Details

Magnitude	4.7
Date-Time	Wednesday, February 27, 2008 at 00:56:45 UTC Wednesday, February 27, 2008 at 12:56:45 AM at epicenter
Location	53.321°N, 0.314°W
Depth	10 km (6.2 miles) set by location program
Region	ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM
Distances	50 km (30 miles) S of Kingston upon Hull, England, UK 70 km (45 miles) NE of Nottingham, England, UK 80 km (50 miles) E of Sheffield, England, UK 205 km (125 miles) N of LONDON, United Kingdom
Location Uncertainty	horizontal +/- 6.8 km (4.2 miles); depth fixed by location program
Parameters	NST= 50, Nph= 50, Dmin=291.4 km, Rmss=1.02 sec, Gp= 54°, M-type=body magnitude (Mb), Version=7
Source	USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)
Event ID	us2008nyae

• This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.