 Location of the Dogger Bank The Dogger Bank earthquake of 1931 is the strongest earthquake ever recorded in the United Kingdom since measurements began, and measured 6.1 on the Richter Scale. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1300x1700, 372 KB) Location of the Dogger bank. ...
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1931 (MCMXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link is to a full 1931 calendar). ...
An earthquake is the result from the sudden release of stored energy in the Earths crust that creates seismic waves. ...
The Richter magnitude test scale (or more correctly local magnitude ML scale) assigns a single number to quantify the size of an earthquake. ...
The tremor began at around 1:30am on June 7, 1931 with its epicentre located on the Dogger Bank, 60 miles (100 km) off the Yorkshire coast in the North Sea. The effects were felt throughout Great Britain and in Belgium and France. June 7 is the 158th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (159th in leap years), with 207 days remaining. ...
1931 (MCMXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link is to a full 1931 calendar). ...
The epicenter or epicentre (ancient Greek: επίκεντρον) is the point on the Earths surface that is directly above or below the center of a localized explosive event or point of seismic energy release. ...
Location of the Dogger Bank Dogger Bank (from dogge, an old Dutch word for fishing boat) is a large sandbank in a shallow area of the North Sea about 100 km off the coast of the United Kingdom. ...
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The North Sea is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean, located between the coasts of Norway and Denmark in the east, the coast of the British Isles in the west, and the German, Dutch, Belgian and French coasts in the south. ...
The earthquake resulted in damage at locations throughout eastern England. The town of Filey in Yorkshire was worst hit with the spire of a church being twisted by the tremor. Chimneys collapsed in Hull, Beverley and Bridlington, and Flamborough Head suffered crumbling of parts of its cliffs. Rather less seriously, in London the head of the waxwork of Dr Crippen at Madame Tussauds fell off. Statistics Population: 6560 Ordnance Survey OS grid reference: TA115807 Administration Borough: Scarborough Shire county: North Yorkshire Region: Yorkshire and the Humber Constituent country: England Sovereign state: United Kingdom Other Ceremonial county: North Yorkshire Historic county: Yorkshire (East Riding) Services Police force: North Yorkshire Police Fire and rescue: North Yorkshire Ambulance...
Hull or Kingston upon Hull is a British city situated on the north bank of the Humber estuary. ...
Arms of Beverley For other uses, see Beverley (disambiguation). ...
Bridlington beach, from the North Pier Bridlington is a town in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. ...
The chalk tower near Flamborough Head. ...
This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ...
Taken pre-1910. ...
Madame Tussauds and the London Planetarium Madame Tussauds is a famous wax museum in London with branches in a number of major cities. ...
The location of the earthquake in the North Sea meant that damage was significantly less than it would have been had the epicentre been on the British mainland. It was also reported that a Hull woman died as a result of a heart attack caused by the quake.
The tremor caused a tsunami that caused floods on the east coast of Britain. More recent excavations of North Sea sand dunes discovered an underground layer consisting of nothing but sea shells that was almost certainly created by a tsunami. The tsunami that struck Malé in the Maldives on December 26, 2004. ...
The hard, rigid outer calcium carbonate covering of certain animals is called a shell. ...
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