Earthquake Off The Scarborough Coastline

[SherryBea]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-38505158

Tsunami?

[ToraToraTora]

3.8?? that's a decent jam tart! barely noticable.

[Mamyalynne]

You asking or telling us Sherry?

[dannyk13]

Not strong enough to cause a tsunami

[-Talbot-]

3.8 ... The Toon Army create a bigger earthquake every other Saturday.

[Baldric]

Gotta laugh,

///"The oil went all over the carpet in the kitchen"///

Carpet ??? in a kitchen!!

[dannyk13]

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/tsunami/Most tsunamis are caused by underwater earthquakes, but not all underwater earthquakes cause tsunamis - an earthquake has to be over about magnitude 6.75 .

[SherryBea]

mamylynne -usually a question mark denotes a question.......

[Mamyalynne]

Understood , ta - No.

[SherryBea]

danny yes I agree, it was a bit tongue in cheek but like Andy's bikini post seems to have got lost in translation xx

[Baldric]

Maybe more than one word in the question would have made things clearer.

[Mamyalynne]

I may now have nightmares of Andy in a bikini fighting against a raging tsunami.

[Buenchico]

You need to remember that seismic activity is measured on a logarithmic scale, not a linear one.

For example, a tremor with a magnitude of 5 is 10 times as strong as one with a magnitude of 4. Then a tremor/quake with a magnitude of 6 is 10 times as strong as one with a magnitude of 5, and so on. (So going from a magnitude of 4 to a magnitude of 6 requires the seismic shock to be 100 times as strong).

Taking the figures of 3.8 (reported off Scarborough, from your link) and Danny's figure of 6.75 (for a Tsunami to occur), shows that this morning's tremor was roughly one thousandth of the strength needed to cause a Tsunami. I reckon the good folk of North Yorkshire should be safe enough!

[ladybirder]

Carpet in the kitchen is bad Baldric but not as bad as carpet in the bathroom!

Sorry Sherry, back to the question. Tsunami? Nowhere near.

[-Talbot-]

I've got carpet on my ceiling.

[anotheoldgit]

I think that we can safely say this was 'NOT' a terrorist attack.

I put it down to that fracking fracking.

[anotheoldgit]

Baldric

/// Carpet ??? in a kitchen!! ///

Never heard of kitchen carpet Baldric, Flotex is a very good one.

http://austinscarpets.co.uk/flotex-c-29.html.html

Other makes and suppliers are available.

[DTCwordfan]

oh, well, I suppose that's caused £3 million worth of improvements to Hartlepool.

[RandyMarsh]

Geoff Boycott's mum sorted it out.

[jourdain2]

I was at my hairdresser's in Scarborough this afternoon and a client had mentioned it, so we knew about it. No-one had felt anything. Sorry, non-event here.

[jourdain2]

^^^One or 2 of the hairdressers were excitedly discussing a tsunami, but Scarborough has huge cliffs. Nothing happened anyway.