1979年节礼日早晨4点钟,在苏格兰南部和英格兰北部突然发生了一次地震,这是大多数英国人没有预料到的事情,更重要的是,这次地震突然发生在几乎两个世纪以来地震活动相对平静的地区。这次节礼日地震为里氏5级,发生在卡莱尔北部10公里的地方,震源深度8公里,是1979年夏天开始的地震序列中最大的一次。在英国发生地震,比人们一般了解的更经常。在过去一千年中报道了四十多次十分剧烈的地震,诸如1884年科尔切斯特地震、1580年 At four o’clock in the morning of 1979, at four o’clock in the morning, an earthquake suddenly struck southern Scotland and northern England, something unexpectedly unexpected to most Britons. More importantly, the earthquake suddenly occurred in almost two centuries of earthquakes Relatively calm activities in the area. The Boxer Day earthquake was magnitude 5, occurring 10km north of Carlisle, with a focal depth of 8km, the largest of the seismogenic sequences that began in the summer of 1979. Earthquakes in Britain are more often than people generally know. More than 40 very dramatic earthquakes have been reported over the past millennium, such as the 1884 Colchester Earthquake, 1580