Anyone out there whom can give me a good answer, or explain to me what is going on, and why - if so - I do not have to worry???

E-mail me, please!:

March 4th 1999 there was a quake that hit the Isle of Arran, Western Scotland. The biggest since 1927 they said. But seismologists say there is no reason for people to worry as earthquakes are actually becoming less frequent. (???) At this time there was no reports of any injuries or other damage to property.

My interest for the area wakened up, and found a map on the WEB showing earthquakes in Northern England and Scotland. Just east of the borderline between England and Scotland, and
about stright north of London, on Dogger Bank, I found mapped down an earthquake of magnitude 6,1 (!) which was dated to June 7th, 1934. Another one hit Inverness in Scotland in 1901 but was not that large, only 5.0. Finally a 5.4 mag. in Northern Wales as recently as 1984.

Even if quakes are being less frequent (?) I still wonder when we are going to have a 6.0 or bigger out there in the North Sea in between all the platforms....

Following report received as a response from Alaska:

Few years ago, the palatforms run by xxx in the Ekofish field area had to be raised. The oil production from the field had lowered the reservoir pressure which resulted in the gentle subsidence of the entire earth column (+-3000m) a total distance of about 5-10m. The details are somewhat hazy. (Why? bc)

The same phenomenon occured in the Long Beach area of Los Angeles back in the 1930's. There the surface dropped over 10m in places. This was all due to oil production.