Geography in the News

Saturday 28th April 2007

 What is Karol from Dover talking about?

Just before the earth shook there was a deep rumbling noise and the whole of our street shook in an east-west motion.

The seagulls went crazy and in parts of Dover the electricity is off.

This morning at 8.18am there was an earthquake measuring 4.3 on the Richter Scale, 7.5 miles off the coast from Folkestone in Kent in the English Channel.

 Find out all about it here…

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6602677.stm

Look at pictures…

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/6603129.stm

Possible wider impacts…

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/dorset/6603547.stm

Wacth a movie here…

 http://blip.tv/file/get/Adtastic2001-KentEarthquake809.wmv

Videos from Sky

http://news.sky.com/skynews/video/fullscr?videoRef=http://skynews-clips.videoloungetv.com/public/skynews/latest/flash/analysis_280407_1000.flv

http://news.sky.com/skynews/video/fullscr?videoRef=http://skynews-clips.videoloungetv.com/public/skynews/latest/flash/quakeshots_280407_1000.flv

http://news.sky.com/skynews/video/fullscr?videoRef=http://skynews-clips.videoloungetv.com/public/skynews/latest/flash/damage_280407_1100.flv

http://news.sky.com/skynews/video/fullscr?videoRef=http://skynews-clips.videoloungetv.com/public/skynews/latest/flash/eyewitness1_280407_0900.flv

Check out here to find out recent earthquakes – you’ll be suprised!

http://tsunami.geo.ed.ac.uk/local-bin/quakes/mapscript/home.pl

Other news

What impact are YOU having on the planet? Statistics from the Human Footprint programme shown on Channel 4 are avaiable. There is also a nice human footrpint calculator to have a play with…

http://www.channel4.com/science/microsites/H/human_footprint/index.html

In your lifetime you will comsume

* 4239 toilet rolls

* 845 tins of baked beans

* 1 million litres of water in baths

* 24 trees to make the books and newspapers you read

* 10,000 bars of chocolate

 Which record has been broken this month?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6598953.stm