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Geology, Palaeontology & Archaeology / earthquake
« on: 01/05/2007 12:05:49 »
earthquakes are not only fault related but can be associated with large land slides and volcanic eruptions as gas/magma builds up below the surface (probably not in this case!) I'm not sure what the exact cause was, it would depend on the depth of the 'quake. If it is deep and tectonically related it is probably to do with the fault reactivation associated with the Alpine orogeny.. there are loads of Alpine collision related faults along the south coast and channel. :-)