The BBC reports today that a small earthquake was registered in Cumbria last night.
The tremor registered 2.1 on the Richter scale so was hardly a dramatic event, the equivalent of a geological fart perhaps. Given all the water that has been moving around in the recent spate of bad weather, a bit of ground movement is not even that surprising. And let’s face it; the flooding has been far more dramatic and newsworthy of late.
The thing about earthquakes in Cumbria that bothers me is that our government allows the burying of nuclear waste deep in the Cumbrian hills. That makes seismic activity in the region something we should all be a little more nervous about.
2.1 this time, 3.6 in December 2010 – 20 tremors a year overall – interesting statistics! What will the next one be? What risk is posed to us all by the burying of nuclear waste in the vicinity? Is it as negligible as the authorities would encourage us to believe?
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The tremor registered 2.1 on the Richter scale so was hardly a dramatic event, the equivalent of a geological fart perhaps. Given all the water that has been moving around in the recent spate of bad weather, a bit of ground movement is not even that surprising. And let’s face it; the flooding has been far more dramatic and newsworthy of late.
The thing about earthquakes in Cumbria that bothers me is that our government allows the burying of nuclear waste deep in the Cumbrian hills. That makes seismic activity in the region something we should all be a little more nervous about.
2.1 this time, 3.6 in December 2010 – 20 tremors a year overall – interesting statistics! What will the next one be? What risk is posed to us all by the burying of nuclear waste in the vicinity? Is it as negligible as the authorities would encourage us to believe?
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