Earthquake of 2.5ml magnitude strikes Mid Devon

BRITISH Geological Survey (BGS) has issued details of an earthquake which struck in Mid Devon today, Monday, November 9.

BGS said that the earthquake of 2.5ML Magnitude struck at a depth of three kilometres at 3.09pm and 44 seconds at Coldridge.

The precise latitude/longitude was 50.838° North / 3.883° West at Grid Reference: 268 kmE / 106 kmN.

It said that at this time, no reports have been received that this event has been felt.

The British Geological Survey is a world-leading independent research organisation providing objective, expert geoscientific data, information and knowledge.

It posted the information about the seismic activity at Coldridge on its social media pages.

The British Geological Survey (BGS) is a partly publicly funded body which aims to advance geoscientific knowledge of the United Kingdom landmass and its continental shelf by means of systematic surveying, monitoring and research.

The BGS headquarters are in Keyworth, Nottinghamshire. Its other centres are located in Edinburgh, Wallingford, Cardiff and London. The current tagline of the BGS is: Understanding our Earth.

The Geological Survey was founded in 1835 by the Board of Ordnance as the Geological Survey of Great Britain, under the directorship of Henry De la Beche.

This was the world's first national geographical survey. It remained a branch of the Ordnance Survey for many years.

In 1965, it was merged with the Geological Museum and Overseas Geological Surveys, under the name of Institute of Geological Sciences.

In 1969, Beris Cox was the first female palaeontologist employed by the IGS.

On January 1, 1984, the institute was renamed the British Geological Survey (and often referred to as the BGS), a name still carried today.

Since 1835, there have been 20 directors of the survey.

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