Explosions off the Coast of France?

Explosions detected off the Northern coast of France

This is very curious. I have not seen this on an earthquake listing before.

Year Mo Dy Hr Mn Secs Lat Lon kmE kmN Depth Mag Locality Int Other information
map 2010 10 25 12 49 31.8 49.577 -0.238 527.4 -34.4 0.0 2.3 NORTHERN FRANCE POSSIBLE EXPLOSION
map 2010 10 25 04 12 23.7 53.635 -1.007 465.7 415.9 1.4 1.8 THORNE,S YORKSHIRE C/F
map 2010 10 23 08 58 01.1 53.305 -2.348 376.8 378.8 16.7 1.2 KNUTSFORD,CHESHIRE
map 2010 10 22 01 22 49.2 53.295 -2.344 377.1 377.6 17.2 1.2 KNUTSFORD,CHESHIRE
map 2010 10 21 22 30 04.2 52.910 -1.208 453.3 335.1 6.6 1.9 BEESTON,NOTTS
map 2010 10 21 10 48 46.9 49.972 0.539 582.0 11.1 0.0 2.6 NORTHERN FRANCE PROBABLE EXPLOSION
map 2010 10 17 07 17 47.6 57.205 -5.620 181.4 818.5 2.7 0.6 GLENELG,HIGHLAND
map 2010 10 15 05 49 53.5 53.257 -1.051 463.3 373.8 5.4 1.7 WORKSOP,NOTTS
map 2010 09 28 03 32 03.2 60.142 -0.542 481.0 1140.6 4.7 1.3 SHETLAND ISLANDS 35KM EAST OF LERWICK
map 2010 09 27 05 32 16.9 52.051 -0.788 483.1 239.9 4.4 1.9 MILTON KEYNES,BUCKS
map 2010 09 25 23 17 25.8 57.086 -4.326 259.1 801.8 7.1 1.7 NEWTONMORE,HIGHLAND 12KM W OF NEWTONMORE

Source

Possible explosion? Probable explosion?

Does anyone have any idea what may be the cause of this? I can't find anything about any explosions off France. Is France testing nukes underground like the States?

The location of these is just off Le Havre for today's 'explosion' and just off Dieppe for the 'explosion' on the 21st.

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I would have to say that nuke testing would be the only answer for that equasion, unless there are two new underwater volcanoes that have just made thier debut. Highly doubtful however

Given that the depth of these siezmic occurances read (both of them) at 0.0, I think underwater nuclear detonations are the winning events occuring here...

Well, normally we'd be waiting for you to tell us what it means!
Very interesting at this point, hopefully, it's nothing.

Originally posted by PuterMan

Explosions detected off the Northern coast of France

This is very curious. I have not seen this on an earthquake listing before.

Year Mo Dy Hr Mn Secs Lat Lon kmE kmN Depth Mag Locality Int Other information
map 2010 10 25 12 49 31.8 49.577 -0.238 527.4 -34.4 0.0 2.3 NORTHERN FRANCE POSSIBLE EXPLOSION
map 2010 10 25 04 12 23.7 53.635 -1.007 465.7 415.9 1.4 1.8 THORNE,S YORKSHIRE C/F
map 2010 10 23 08 58 01.1 53.305 -2.348 376.8 378.8 16.7 1.2 KNUTSFORD,CHESHIRE
map 2010 10 22 01 22 49.2 53.295 -2.344 377.1 377.6 17.2 1.2 KNUTSFORD,CHESHIRE
map 2010 10 21 22 30 04.2 52.910 -1.208 453.3 335.1 6.6 1.9 BEESTON,NOTTS
map 2010 10 21 10 48 46.9 49.972 0.539 582.0 11.1 0.0 2.6 NORTHERN FRANCE PROBABLE EXPLOSION
map 2010 10 17 07 17 47.6 57.205 -5.620 181.4 818.5 2.7 0.6 GLENELG,HIGHLAND
map 2010 10 15 05 49 53.5 53.257 -1.051 463.3 373.8 5.4 1.7 WORKSOP,NOTTS
map 2010 09 28 03 32 03.2 60.142 -0.542 481.0 1140.6 4.7 1.3 SHETLAND ISLANDS 35KM EAST OF LERWICK
map 2010 09 27 05 32 16.9 52.051 -0.788 483.1 239.9 4.4 1.9 MILTON KEYNES,BUCKS
map 2010 09 25 23 17 25.8 57.086 -4.326 259.1 801.8 7.1 1.7 NEWTONMORE,HIGHLAND 12KM W OF NEWTONMORE

Source

Possible explosion? Probable explosion?

Does anyone have any idea what may be the cause of this? I can't find anything about any explosions off France. Is France testing nukes underground like the States?

The location of these is just off Le Havre for today's 'explosion' and just off Dieppe for the 'explosion' on the 21st.

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Maybe I'm just ignorant, but I have no idea what those numbers mean.

Secret channel tunnels being made.........
...maybe.

It could be an escape tunnel for Sarkozy's government after the French rise up against him and he flees to Great Britain.

I wouldn't really worry about it, we aren't in the cold war or anything so it's probably no big deal.

reply to post by gatorboi117


Basically the one today was an equivalent of a Magnitude 2.3 and the one on the 21st was the evivalent of a Magnitude 2.6. Neither of then exactly huge but:

2.5 84.4 kg (186 lb) 355 MJ World War II blockbuster bomb

Source: Wikipedia

That seems to be too large for a construction blast i would have thought, but since I am not aware of there being another channel tunnel under construction perhaps the 'natives' of Calais camps have moved along the coast and are now busy building their own as suggest above.

Originally posted by Misoir
It could be an escape tunnel for Sarkozy's government after the French rise up against him and he flees to Great Britain.

I wouldn't really worry about it, we aren't in the cold war or anything so it's probably no big deal.

- like that one. But if he flees to Britain he is entering the camp of the enemy.

I thought we (UK) were still in a cold war with France as we have been for centuries.

reply to post by PuterMan


for the moment here in Belgium no news about this .........
curious anyway
I will listen a bit more than usual
if ?? then I tell you ATS friends !!!!

reply to post by PuterMan


Is it in the realm of possibility that it could be left over WW2 ordnance going off?

The depth has in both cases been fixed/changed to 1.0km


Latest Quake - 10.25.2010 - 3.0

First Quake - 10.21.2010 - 3.2

Above are the links to emsc-csem.org - Scientific Data of the Earthquake

The website in the OP is the only one i found mentioning explosions. Found nothing in the French local media

That both events have the same depth / had their depth fixed both to 1.0km is kinda suspicious.
But i don't think Mister Sarkozy or any French would be crazy enough to set of an A-bomb on their coasts - incroyable!

I was searching explosions/earthquakes and found a couple of aticles on nuke testing as a possibility.

www.keralamonitor.com...

Don't know that this is a great source of info, but speculates that approx. 25% of quakes are due to testing.

reply to post by Misoir


hahahaha !! good one !!!
keep smiling, why worry about this, we live in EUROP not in USA, homeland to islam extremism ( like in Great Britain hahaha ) .

reply to post by SunnyDee


Thanks for that link. Seems to be very interesting. I shall have a good read of it later.

On a serious note:

I thought France stopped nuclear testing in the 90's and i dont recall any news of their testing restarting. Surely there would of been some type of announcement pertaining to this.

reply to post by Sunlionspirit


= sarcasm !! ok ??? good to know your friends !

does that coast line look familiar
in that photo??

It looks like the coastline for the
Allied Forces Landing June 6, 1944
in Normandy.

Don't think German Artillery shells
could have made it that far off the coast.
Maybe I'm wrong.

I don't think it to be old ordinance.

I also seriously doubt France would
conduct nuclear testing on such a
historic battle front from WW2.
Maybe I'm wrong on that too.

reply to post by TheDeader


Mm, 1.0 is not one of the EMSC default depths. They use 2, 10 and 35 so that is a little curious. I note that the UK information is depth 0 in both cases.

The EMSC Magnitudes seem to be quite a bit higher putting the first one as 8 x stronger and the second one as 11.2 x stronger.

reply to post by boondock-saint


No I don't seriously think France would be testing nukes at the entrance of Le Havre, they might blow up a ferry.

You say it would not be artillery shells/ordinance but actually maybe that is the answer. The UK estimate of the magnitude would be of the right order for old bombs. Maybe they have been doing some disposal.

Probably digging with unknown method of tunneling or constructing.
my 2 cents