A comprehensive historical catalogue of seismic events recorded within the proximity of the moor.
This historical collection details seismic events that have occurred in the vicinity of Dartmoor, providing a structured overview of earthquake records. Every entry in this dataset includes event timing, magnitude, and epicentre location, calculated by distance to the granite upland geography. Access these historical records to understand the documented seismic history associated with this region of South West England.
Ancient granite uplands studded with tors and steeped in prehistoric mystery
Dartmoor National Park is a granite upland in southern Devon, South West England, protected since 1951 as one of Britain's original national parks. Covering 954 square kilometres, it represents the largest area of granite in Britain, with the landscape characterized by exposed granite hilltops known as tors that rise from expansive moorland, peat bogs, and blanket bogs. The highest points are High Willhays at 621 metres and Yes Tor at 619 metres, both in the northern moor. The park is managed by the Dartmoor National Park Authority, with land ownership shared among private landowners, the Duke of Cornwall, the Ministry of Defence, water companies, the National Trust, and the Forestry Commission. Dartmoor is distinguished by its extraordinary concentration of prehistoric remains, particularly from the late Neolithic and Bronze Age periods, making it one of the most archaeologically significant landscapes in the United Kingdom.
Review Dartmoor records by date, magnitude, depth, reported place, and distance
Examine earthquake records around Dartmoor National Park, a 954 km² terrestrial upland park in the United Kingdom with major waters; Event positions are shown with dates, magnitudes, depths, localities, sources, and park distances. The map does not assign nearby epicentres to Dartmoor's limits or treat hills, valleys, rivers, bogs, forests, and grasslands as proof of seismic cause, danger, or future activity.
This page describes catalogued earthquakes associated with the park by epicentre location and distance. It does not establish causation, assess current danger, or predict future earthquakes.
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