Guest 699- Registered: 3 Jun 2010
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anyone over thanet last sunday around 2pm ?, a relative told me there was a small earthquake measuring 1.9 on that day a few miles off the coast in the sea
Guest 643- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Erm .... could it have been this Ron?
From Kentonline.
A team of bomb disposal experts from the Royal Navy have blown up a German mine after it was dredged up by a fishing boat off the coast of Sheerness.
The Second World War parachute mine contained 1,500 pounds of high explosive and initial attempts to destroy it on Saturday failed.
Navy divers used mine-lifting airbags to bring the device to the surface before towing it six miles east of Sheerness and two miles off Warden Point.
A one-mile safety zone was set up around the site while the controlled explosion took place.
The four-man Navy team which is part of Southern Diving Unit 2 (SDU2), was led by petty officer diver John O'Brien.
Their work regularly involves clearing Second World War ordnance from the beaches and waters around the southern and eastern part of England.
Lieutenant Dan Herridge, the officer commanding SDU2, said: "Due to the amount of high explosive in the mine, which posed a significant risk to public safety, it was necessary for the mine to be lifted and taken to a safe location to be dealt with."
Monday, April 09 2012
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Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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Even if the RN had detonated the mine underneath the seabed, it wouldn't have caused an earth-tremor. But because they used airbags to lift it to the surface, even this hypothesis falls short.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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Something funny going on here. We here in London heard a loud bang last night about 10pm...then there is all this...
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/mystery-explosion-heard-across-midlands-182338273.htmlIgnorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 703- Registered: 30 Jul 2010
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I wonder if the large boom was more to do with the effect that two rapidly approaching Typhoon jets had on the helicopter pilot's physiology
Nice to know they are on the ball though.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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this all takes me back to when i lived in ilford and the flat started to reverberate following a muffled bang.
the dog went beserk and insisted in a barking way that i investigate the cause.
we went out and i noticed that a flashing light in the distance was not working, until then i had not realised it was the canary wharf tower.
upon returning i realised that my t.v. was tuned to a cable channel that broadcast from there.
the chap reading the news was covered in plaster dust, such british stoicism that he carried on.
Guest 683- Registered: 11 Feb 2009
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An earthquake in Thanet? Was there much improvement?!!!
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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Widespread destruction Mark. £2.50's worth of damage.
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Guest 743- Registered: 28 Feb 2012
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maybe thishttp [URL] [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-17699357URL]
Guest 743- Registered: 28 Feb 2012
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lol can never work them url thingys out
Guest 703- Registered: 30 Jul 2010
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Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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This just will not do. I am certain it was a fair time later when we heard the (what I hope could be the only big) bang.
I would have been out with the mutt 'till seven pm or so.
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