An earthquake has been reported in Cornwall. The micro-earthquake occurred in Constantine, near Falmouth, during the Queen’s Jubilee weekend.
New data from the British Geological Survey (BGS) have revealed that the quake occurred on Friday 3 June at 7.13pm. It was a shallow earthquake, only 5 km deep. Most earthquakes are shallow and their depth is usually 10 km on average.
The tremors of a shallow earthquake are usually more intense than deep earthquakes. However, this particular earthquake had only a magnitude of 0.1, equivalent to a hand grenade. Earthquakes with a magnitude of less than 2.5 are not usually felt, but can be recorded with seismographs.
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There are hundreds of thousands of similar small earthquakes each year around the world, including in Cornwall. But the county is also accustomed to the tremors caused by human activities in the Redruth area. Read more about the earthquakes induced here.
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