Lincolnshire's 'Rasen' Earthquake 2008
Shaking The earthquake tremor itself literally kept my cottage in the air for 10 seconds. Worrying bits of masonry and flashing could be heard dancing down the roof from the chimneys and the taller house next door. The next few days the roads were chicanes around ladder trucks removing unsafe chimney pots. I had swept the back yard the day before the quake, the day after I had to do it again and was shocked to get 1/2 a dustbin of mortar, sand & brickdust. It occurred close to 2am, so I was expecting it to be a precursor to a larger quake at sunrise. In the week preceding there had been a lunar eclipse. TradeMiraculously the antiques trade recieved very little damage - the rows of fine china figurine ladies hadn't danced off shelves; the lines of lead crystal and quartz victorian decanters sat just still enough; even the racks of condiment pots, thimbles, books and lampstands came through unscathed. The chimneys, some tall Tudor, alot massive Georgian and victorian, didn't fair so well, with the Lloyds building the worst hit with residents on holiday - the fire brigade taking away what was left of the old pots. The remainder being found in the rooms as the owners returned. FunnyOne of the funniest stories was told by a lady at a cafe a few days later. Apparently she'd had a new dishwasher installed on the day of the quake, and put it on for the first time before retiring to bed, awaking with the whole house shaking later in the night. A  (see photos) Luckily I'm a renter.... Officially the town recieved little damage, but one storey of scaffold costs £1,000 per week...The Co Op, Butcher's & Red Cross' Shops, five storey Restauraunt, Rodney Hotel, St. Mary's, Pet shop, Travel Agent, Health Food Shop, Old Hospital all needing weeks of quiet repair.  | |
Earthquake WatchingArea Of Higher Earthquake Danger!
Actual Distance at this scale Moon would be 9 monitors away! ---------> If You Can See Your Lands, It Is Under The Moon - Beware of Earthquakes. If it is in Sunlight Aswell Be Doubly Aware.. Eclipse Times Eclipses don't always mean earthquakes in the same way as getting run over by a Mack truck doesn't always mean a trip to the morgue. There is a chance that you'll keep out the way of everything and emerge Buster Keaton like unscathed. But in reality any list of Big Earthquakes shows a correlation to the forces of gravity exerted by the Sun and Moon. At eclipse these forces are doubled, playing straight through the Earth. Apogee - Perigee TimesEven the watery seas show a curious lag of a day or more between what is maximum gravity and the waters maximum heights. Magma acts in much the same way, and the lag between a heavenly body passing directly overhead, to a volcano blowing it's top (or a fault moving) can be up to a week. Thus blowing the proof of the statistics, at least for those with short attention spans. Occasionally a hotspot is so primed that it blows prematurely a lunar month, or few days before maximum gravity. Tide TimesScientists seem to be forever measuring cracks and faults, their noses pressed to seismographs and charts, all the time claiming pre-diction isn't possible. Whilst every day quakes happen at Sunset, Moonset, Sunrise, Moonrise.... at Full Moon it's the moment a fault gets pulled perpendicularly open with the Sun one side and the Moon the other; at New Moon the Massifs get pulled by the combined gravities, so Capes, Islands and Bulky Mountains (vulcanics) are in more danger. And it isn't just predictable - it's obvious on infra-red as the hot wierd cloud and gas formations take shape over stressed areas. Composed of steam from the crystallisation water of the rocks, often giving stripes from the heating / cooling cycles, it is best seen through one of the Meteo Satellites.. Infa-Red Satellite Intellicast Met Office The Earthquake Cloud can be seen as hot spots - Salta in Argentina, the Tajik Kush, Guam are near ever presents. Occasionally a more ominous or intense plume can be seen from the hotspot, indicating fault break down. A quake is a near certainty when this is seen. Occasionally whole faults can be seen glowing in strait lines- it is often one of the ends that will give the quake. Little mattress Visible Cloud   Earthquake Cloud at 53N (As Grímsvötn Volcano blew in Iceland) ....and a more startling  Ploughed Field, also over Horncastle A Few Random Quakes..
 The odd quake that falls out of the regular tidal pattern quite possibly broke down and gave off steam - but the physical jolt took some time to squeeze out - either just caught on jagged rock, baulked by magma, or even an intense high pressure system. Sun / Moon PositionTriangulo de VidaMany earthquake drills in the west include the 'drop, cover, hold' technique. Originally part of the Nuclear Survival code, it is particularly poor, and even dangerous to use during large earthquakes. The only survivors in collapsed buildings have been found in pockets formed by supporting furniture. Large stout old wooden, and metal safes and cabinets are strong enough to keep the cieling off should it collapse. Getting down next to these takes advantage of any pockets that may form. During one quake, the only natural spaces were next to and inbetween crushed desks, not underneath. Some of the worst injuries have been found in stair wells, where the stairs disengage and the risers become a large multiple buzz saw. Running outside into a rain of roof tiles and power cables isn't recommended anyway, whilst standing in doorways is only safe for mild quakes. Volcanoes Magma explosions generally relieve pressure, and their earthquake swarms are localised at such times. However, large volcanoes don't often erupt, but they do glow like LEDs on the IR map when their fault line is under strain, and are handy marks of just how much a line is suffering. Popacatlpetl is a good example, with the fault stretching to the bottom of the US New Madrid, and out to the 80's Mexico epicenter in the Pacific. If by a New Moon no quake action has relieved the hole, then some type of eruption is to be expected. There are around ten earthquake stations for each continent, from various countries. RSS Feeds are a customisable way of seeing how the Earth is shaping-up. Addendum The 9.0+ Japan earthquake of 3/11 was set up late 2010 with large movement at Taiwan, Ryukyu and West Guam, on three seperate occassions. The north pole moved suddenly from north Canada to Siberia - magnetite in Mongolia is being reseated northwards opening faults. The loss of ice at the poles is reshaping the area too. With the Pacific plate push then having uninterrupted access to East Japan, gradually the whole of Eastern Asia started  |
With the largest earthquake underneath British soil for some time, the racecourse town of Market Rasen found itself close to the epicentre, a 5.2 quake Feb 27th 2008, the local paper not really doing justice to the event. Not that there's that much to damage in the town. It was felt 
