http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12056634 

It will be interesting to hear if it has had any effect on the Lake District mines.

Dave

Even with a shake that small, considering the epicentre was in Coniston, I'd be staying out of any mines for a couple of weeks, and let things settle/drop as they want to.

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Coniston is always on the move even without a little earthquake.

Maybe they mistook it as an earthquake, maybe it was some big movement in the Coniston Copper Mines?

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Maybe they mistook it as an earthquake, maybe it was some big movement in the Coniston Copper Mines?

Says it was felt on the Isle of Man which is 50 miles away, so seems unlikely it was just something in the mine, no matter how big.

Noooooo 😉

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Mebee they just felt the aftermath of too many pints of Bluebird...

Come on then who's "digging" with bang in Cumbria then :angel:

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It was Mark Weir up at Honister playing with some new Dynamite he got for christmas !

Noooooo 😉

You're expecting me to detect subtle humour before 8am ?
Nope.

It does make you think about the trips you could have in there if only some of those pesky floors would clear out of the way though. Top to bottom without your feet ever touching the ground...

It does make you think about the trips you could have in there if only some of those pesky floors would clear out of the way though. Top to bottom without your feet ever touching the ground...

Technically your feet rarely touch the 'ground' in Coniston 😉

One of the interesting places to see if the earthquake has altered would be its namesake: "earthquake passage"...ever changing without an earthquake! Some years ago I guided a mineralogist and vulcanologist from the B.G.S. through the mines. They were collecting evidence for a technical paper to support their theory that mineralization at Coniston occurred much earlier than previously reported. We visited many areas but it was only in earthquake passage that they voiced any concern...staying a very short time and commenting that though the many fractures and major stresses were geologically very interesting it was a certainty for massive collapse that would have repercussions even at the surface and can we move on now!

Must admit that I was a bit disappointed today that during a walk on the Coniston fell-tops there was no Earthquake cracks in the hard frozen Low Water or Levers Water.

Jeff

Earthquake Passage is probably my favourite part of Coniston, mainly I suspect for the way it makes you mutter 'oh bloody hell' when you first realise what's going on with the wall. 🙂

I will be heading in very soon to assess the damage..The Colonel has offered to de-rig any route I fancy doing following my recent back surgery as going up will be too hard.. a downhill trip is on the cards 😉

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Take care in there Kate / Colonel... some of it is shakey enough never mind if there's been a recent earthquake 😮

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I will be heading in very soon to assess the damage..The Colonel has offered to de-rig any route I fancy doing following my recent back surgery as going up will be too hard.. a downhill trip is on the cards 😉

I did?? 😮
Well guess who is carrying the ropes up there.. (clue: not me :lol: )

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I wonder how it may have affected earthquake passage?

I wonder how it may have affected earthquake passage?

Read the thread!

As one of the first people into Earthquake passage we put in some tell-tales to check if there was any movement as it looked, of course, like it might go at any moment.

Over two years and a previous tremor - it didn't move!

That's not to say it won't go now. All I can say it was in our minds as we moved around in the bottom of the stope some 100' below it.

Incidentally - has anyone been down there lately? - off the end of the passage, descend several pitches, across the stope and then down the slope to the flooded bit right at the bottom.

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I wonder how it may have affected earthquake passage?

I reckon Volcanoe junction should be ok....

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