A New Start. It has been a while. I haven’t blogged in over a year. The perceived and actual stress of my job, my workload, the death of my mother, all got to me. It directly and indirectly affected my health, culminating with a short enforced sabbatical in the cardiac unit of the Royal Stoke University Hospital last summer. Well, I am happy to report...

Here is the seismogram of the M8.3 Chilean earthquake of September 16, 2015 recorded at Keele University, UK. Occurring about 230km north of Chile’s capital, Santiago, the coast of Chile is prone to large subduction related earthquakes such as this, including the largest earthquake ever recorded, M9.5 in 1960. More information from the USGS.

A moderate (for the UK) M3.8 earthquake occurred last night near Oakham in Rutland, England. The recording above made at the University of Keele on our 6TD seismometer shows the three-components of ground motion (up-down; north-south; east-west) and nicely shows the arrival of P-waves and S-waves. Our record from our SEP-1 school’s seismometer is...

Magnitude 4.1 earthquake in the Bristol Channel. Seismogram recorded at Keele University. Probably associated with the Bristol Channel Fault System or one of the NW-SE strike slip faults that offset it. Map from PESGB with approximate epicentre highlighted. [Update] The Bristol Channel Fault System is a major fault zone along which it is thought...

M6.4 earthquake strikes 171 km West of Irákleion, Crete, Greece

Today’s September 24, 2013 66km NNE of Awaran, Pakistan Earthquake M7.7 recorded at Keele, UK. Epicentral distance around 55°. More details from the USGS