Two new seismic stations are being built in Surrey this week, to record the earth's movements in the wake of recent tremors. Seven earthquakes were detected by the British Geological Survey (BGS ...

There are more than 100 seismograph stations across the UK which measure earthquakes Gwynedd has been revealed as one of the UK's earthquake hotspots. A new map published on National Richter Scale ...

The safe operation of EDF Energy’s nuclear power stations, a fleet of 14 Advanced Gas-cooled Reactors (AGRs) which provide about 15% of the UK’s electricity, is crucial to ensuring enough electricity ...

Houses in parts of the UK were left shaking this morning after an earthquake hit off the coast of Shetland. The British Geological Survey said a magnitude 4.9 earthquake struck around 11 miles ...

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Staying at home has led to a notable reduction in the hum of ground vibrations in the UK generated by human activities such as air and road traffic and industrial work, geoscientists have said.

Google’s Android Earthquake Alerts program is a globe-spanning earthquake early-warning system that uses billions of phone ...

In April and May this year, two small earthquakes struck the UK near the town of Blackpool. Suspicion immediately fell on hydraulic fracturing, known as fracking – a controversial process to ...

Each station captures data about how much the earth moves and vibrates during a temblor and how much energy moves out from the hypocenter, or the site of an earthquake under the planet's surface.

On the afternoon of January 12, 2010, a magnitude-7.0 earthquake struck about 16 miles west of Haiti’s capital of Port-au-Prince. Among the most significant seismic disasters recorded, more than ...