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The tremor began at around 1:30 am on 7 June 1931 with its epicentre located at the Dogger Bank, 60 miles (97 km) off the Yorkshire coast in the North Sea. The effects were felt throughout Great Britain as well as in Belgium and France. [3] The earthquake resulted in damage at locations throughout eastern England.
The 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake, ... Centred 15 km north of Napier, ... The most noticeable land change was the uplifting of some 40 km 2 of sea-bed to become dry ...
This is a list of earthquakes in 1931. ... New Zealand, Hawke's Bay, North Island: IX ... Dutch East Indies, Flores Sea: 6.0:
The 1931 Dogger Bank earthquake took place below the bank, measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale and was the largest earthquake ever recorded in the United Kingdom. Its hypocentre was 23 kilometres (14 mi) beneath the bank, and the quake was felt in countries all around the North Sea, causing damage across eastern England.
3 May 1931 Manchester, England 53.50 −2.35 VII 3.7 Small but damaging earthquake [2] [5] 7 June 1931 Dogger Bank, North Sea 54.08 1.50 VII 6.1 Strongest recorded instrumentally. See 1931 Dogger Bank earthquake. [2] [5] 16 July 1940 Kilsyth, Scotland 56.00 −4.00 VII–VIII 3.7 House gable collapsed at Carronbridge [2] [5] 12 December 1940
A 6.1 magnitude earthquake struck the United Kingdom at 1:30 in the morning and remains the strongest tremor to affect the UK since measurements were first recorded. The epicenter of the quake was at the Dogger Bank, a shallow offshore sandbank in the North Sea roughly 65 miles (105 km) east of Bridlington, Yorkshire.
East Coast residents were jolted Friday by a 4.8-magnitude earthquake centered near Lebanon, New Jersey, with weak rumblings felt as far away as Baltimore and the Massachusetts-New Hampshire border.
see 1931 Zangezur earthquake: 39.2 46.0 2,890 6.5 M w [32] June 7, 1931: 00:25 offshore, Yorkshire, North Sea, United Kingdom see 1931 Dogger Bank earthquake: 54 1.48 6.1 M L (Musson, 1994) largest instrumentally recorded earthquake to have affected the United Kingdom USGS August 10, 1931: 21:18 Near Fuyun, Xinjiang, China see 1931 Fuyun ...