2008 Market Rasen earthquake

2008 earthquake epicentred in Market Rasen, Lincolnshire October 2024 September 2019 2008-02-27 00:56:47 usp000g02w 13214978 2008 Market Rasen earthquake St Mary Magdalene Church, Waltham on the Wolds - geograph.org.uk - 800737.jpg Scaffolding covering the spire of the village church in Waltham on the Wolds after the earthquake Scaffolding covering the spire of the village church in Waltham on the Wolds after the earthquake 2008 Market Rasen ShakeMap.jpg Map showing epicentre (star) and shaking intensity Map showing epicentre (star) and shaking intensity 2008 2 27 y 00:56 5.2 l y4.8 b y 18.6 km 0 53.404 N 0.331 W inline,title United Kingdom VI One injured £30 million (2008 GBP)Equivalent to £50 million ($65 million USD) in 2025 en-UK On 27 February 2008 at 00:56:47.8s GMT an earthquake occurred at Market Rasen, Lincolnshire, England. According to the British Geological Survey the earthquake registered a reading of 5.2 on the Richter scale, with its epicentre 2.5 mi 0 north of Market Rasen and 15 km 0 south-west of Grimsby.Market Rasen Earthquake 27 February 2008 00:56 UTC 5.2 ML http://www.earthquakes.bgs.ac.uk/earthquakes/reports/market_rasen_27022008/market_rasen_27022008_intro.htm British Geological Survey 8 December 2011 https://web.archive.org/web/20080309224139/http://www.earthquakes.bgs.ac.uk/earthquakes/reports/market_rasen_27022008/market_rasen_27022008_intro.htm 9 March 2008 The duration of the earthquake was confirmed as roughly 10 seconds.Fran Yeoman Earthquake hits Britain, 5.3 magnitude The Times 27 February 2008 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article3442675.ece https://archive.today/20080510155458/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article3442675.ece dead 10 May 2008 27 February 2008 London Spread of effect The tremors were felt across a wide area of England and Wales, from Hampshire in the south to Newcastle upon Tyne in the north, and as far west as Bangor, Northern Ireland. They were also reported in the Netherlands, Belgium, and the far north of France. Structural damage was recorded in some areas, including one case where a chimney collapsed and injured a person in Wombwell, South Yorkshire. Cause The earthquake was caused by the sudden rupture and motion along a strike-slip fault, 18.6 km 0 beneath Lincolnshire. Earthquake motion occurred over a time span of ~2 minutes but it was most intense and was felt at the surface for just 10 to 30 seconds; maximum vertical ground motion at the epicentre of the earthquake was only ~1 mm. The observed focal mechanism implies either sinistral motion on a N–S or dextral motion on an E–W oriented strike-slip fault. The nine aftershocks observed, ~5 km 0 SSW of the main earthquake event, point to an approximately N–S oriented fault. From the 5.2 l y magnitude of the main earthquake, a motion of a few centimetres along a ~2.5 km mi -long mid fault rupture is derived.84 4 974–1002 Wells Donald L. Kevin J. Coppersmith New empirical relationships among magnitude, rupture length, rupture width, rupture area, and surface displacement Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America Seismological Society of America 1994 10.1785/BSSA0840040974 1994BuSSA..84..974W 10561127 http://www.bssaonline.org/cgi/content/abstract/84/4/974 subscription 2 March 2008 29 February 2008 https://web.archive.org/web/20080302150121/http://www.bssaonline.org/cgi/content/abstract/84/4/974 dead The energy released was 3.98 trillion joules (equal to the detonation of ~950 tonnes of TNT).Earthquake Power Calculator http://convertalot.com/earthquake_power__calculator.html 29 February 2008 convertalot.com Unlike typical earthquakes worldwide, the earthquakes of Northern Europe are intraplate earthquakes, meaning they are not close to tectonic plate boundaries.10.1016/j.quascirev.2004.06.015 24 3–4 241–304 Cloetingh S. P. A. Ziegler F. Beekman P. A. M. Andriessen L. Matenco G. Bada D. Garcia-Castellanos N. Hardebol P. Dezes D. Sokoutis Lithospheric memory, state of stress and rheology: neotectonic controls on Europe's intraplate continental topography Quaternary Science Reviews 2005 2005QSRv...24..241C Most intraplate earthquakes in northern Europe, including the British Isles, are thought to be driven by distant tectonic stresses—a combination of E–W North Atlantic Ridge and N–S African plate regional stress fields, and local mantle conditions.10.1144/0016-764903-014 161 1 19–29 Bott Martin H. P. Martin Bott Jacqueline D. J. Bott The Cenozoic uplift and earthquake belt of mainland Britain as a response to an underlying hot, low-density upper mantle Journal of the Geological Society 2004 2004JGSoc.161...19B 129807173 http://jgs.lyellcollection.org/cgi/content/abstract/161/1/19 subscription10.1016/S0277-3791(00)00074-3 19 14–15 1469–1493 Firth Callum R. Iain S. Stewart Postglacial tectonics of the Scottish glacio-isostatic uplift centre Quaternary Science Reviews 2000 2000QSRv...19.1469F Indeed, the motion on the strike-slip fault responsible for the earthquake is compatible with a local NW–SE stress field; a product of the E–W and N–S regional stress fields. Only a minority of earthquakes in the UK are related to post-glacial rebound e.g. the minor earthquakes (<3.5 l y) of western Scotland, where glaciers ~1 km thick existed during the peak of the last ice age. Effects thumb|Collapsed chimneys were the primary damage reported across the earthquake area, as seen here in Gainsborough. The earthquake resulted in structural damage to many homes and businesses in the epicentral area. Buildings as large as apartment blocks were reported to have shaken for up to 30 seconds afterwards. Birds and pets became highly agitated.Julian Kossof Earthquake hits UK The Daily Telegraph 27 February 2008 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/02/27/nquake227.xml 27 February 2008 https://web.archive.org/web/20080303044209/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2008%2F02%2F27%2Fnquake227.xml 3 March 2008 dead There were no deaths, but a 19-year-old man in Wombwell, South Yorkshire suffered a broken pelvis when a piece of chimney fell through the roof onto his attic bed.Earthquake hits much of England BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7266136.stm 27 February 2008 27 February 2008 https://web.archive.org/web/20080303001201/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7266136.stm 3 March 2008 liveUK rocked by strongest earthquake in over 20 years TV3 New Zealand 27 February 2008 http://www.tv3.co.nz/News/Story/tabid/209/articleID/47542/cat/41/Default.aspx 27 February 2008 https://web.archive.org/web/20080302013830/http://www.tv3.co.nz/News/Story/tabid/209/articleID/47542/cat/41/Default.aspx 2 March 2008 live The earthquake was felt by people as far south as Bournemouth, where it was felt as a mild but noticeable vibration, and as far away as Bangor, Northern Ireland, where it woke people. Police in the Midlands received more than 5,000 telephone calls in an hour from members of the public regarding the earthquake. The earthquake caused power cuts in some areas. A church in March, Cambridgeshire reported that, since the earthquake, water had been coming up from the ground into the cellar at a rate of 10 impgal L per hour.Mystery of 'holy' water's source BBC News 26 March 2008 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cambridgeshire/7314447.stm 26 March 2008 https://web.archive.org/web/20080331041012/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cambridgeshire/7314447.stm 31 March 2008 live The spire of St Mary Magdalene church at Waltham on the Wolds in Leicestershire was damaged and was to be rebuilt at a cost of £100,000.Scaffolding due this week Save Our Spire! http://saveourspire.org.uk/?p=9 10 March 2008 13 January 2009 26 August 2011 https://web.archive.org/web/20110826182705/http://saveourspire.org.uk/?p=9 dead Also damaged were the spires of St Andrew's Church in Haconby, St Andrew's Church in Witham on the Hill and St Vincent's Church in Caythorpe,14 September 2012 Steeple damage closes St Vincent's Church in Caythorpe http://www.granthamjournal.co.uk/news/local/steeple-damage-closes-st-vincent-s-church-in-caythorpe-1-4265406 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20121012173817/http://www.granthamjournal.co.uk/news/local/steeple-damage-closes-st-vincent-s-church-in-caythorpe-1-4265406 12 October 2012 5 October 2012 Grantham Journal all three in South Kesteven. The cost of insurance payouts was estimated to be around £30 million,https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1580015/British-earthquake-to-cost-30-million.html British earthquake to cost £30 million Britten Nick 27 February 2008 18 March 2018 0307-1235 with the majority of damage being done to chimneys, roof tiles and by falling masonry. Magnitude The tremor was the largest earthquake to affect the UK since the 1984 Llŷn Peninsula earthquake, which measured 5.4 on the Richter scale.http://www.lincolnshireecho.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=156130&command=displayContent&sourceNode=242285&home=yes&more_nodeId1=156139&contentPK=19996286 Lincolnshire Echo Lincolnshire earthquake "one of biggest ever" 27 February 2008 The British Geological Survey gave the earthquake a reading of 5.2 ML, while the United States Geological Survey reported it measured 4.8 Mb.Magnitude 4.8 – England, United Kingdom United States Geological Survey 27 February 2008 https://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/eqinthenews/2008/us2008nyae/ 27 February 2008 https://web.archive.org/web/20080302034721/http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/eqinthenews/2008/us2008nyae/ 2 March 2008 live The French Atomic Energy Commission estimated the magnitude was 5.4 ML.Alerte Sismique Commissariat à L'Energie Atomique (CEA) 27 February 2008 http://www-dase.cea.fr/evenement/evenements.php?type=alerte&identifiant=20080227-005651 27 February 2008 https://web.archive.org/web/20080302150723/http://www-dase.cea.fr/evenement/evenements.php?type=alerte&identifiant=20080227-005651 2 March 2008 live fr Aftershocks A total of nine aftershocks were recorded. The largest, measuring 2.8 on the Richter scale, occurred around five weeks after the initial event, on 5 April at 13:57 GMT.Market Rasen aftershocks British Geological Survey 14 April 2008 http://www.earthquakes.bgs.ac.uk/earthquakes/reports/market_rasen_27022008/market_rasen_27022008_aftershocks.htm 14 April 2008 https://web.archive.org/web/20080406143536/http://www.earthquakes.bgs.ac.uk/earthquakes/reports/market_rasen_27022008/market_rasen_27022008_aftershocks.htm 6 April 2008 dead Responses thumb|Many churches were damaged by the earthquake and temporarily closed. Firefighting crews were called out to 50 incidents and one fire as a result of the quake.27 February 2008 Earthquake felt across much of UK http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7266136.stm 18 March 2018 news.bbc.co.uk Building Control & Street Force officers worked quickly to assess damage in the area around West Lindsey,West Lindsey responds to earthquake incident https://www.marketrasenmail.co.uk/news/west-lindsey-responds-to-earthquake-incident-1-1177757 18 March 2018 marketrasenmail.co.uk 19 March 2018 https://web.archive.org/web/20180319084553/https://www.marketrasenmail.co.uk/news/west-lindsey-responds-to-earthquake-incident-1-1177757 dead and West Lindsey District Council also urged people to call their telephone number if people were concerned about damage to their homes. Trent Street in Gainsborough was closed to traffic whilst a local builder assessed if properties were structurally safe, after 1 family was evacuated from their house following concerns about collapses. Significance The BGS described the earthquake as an "extremely large earthquake in UK terms but not large in world terms". Approximately 200 earthquakes occur in the UK every year, approximately 175 of which are too weak to be noticed by humans. See also Geography of the United Kingdom List of earthquakes in 2008 List of earthquakes in the British Isles London–Brabant Massif Notes References External links Minor earthquake shakes England Report from the British Geological Survey Earthquake information by the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre Earthquake information by the United States Geological Survey Report from BBC News Report from Sky News Location of epicentre on Google Maps Report and video https://web.archive.org/web/20080302104426/http://www.doncasterfreepress.co.uk/free/Earthquake-hits-Doncaster--readers39.3818724.jp 2 March 2008 from the Doncaster Free Press England 2008 England Earthquake Earthquake Category:West Lindsey District Category:2000s in Lincolnshire Category:2000s in South Yorkshire Category:February 2008 in the United Kingdom