February 27, 2008 Earthquake: Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake struck Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom on February 27, 2008 at 00:56:47 UTC, 18 km below the surface.
Map
Where it struck, with the other significant earthquakes within 200 km. Circles are sized and colored by magnitude; select one for its page.
The earthquake
- Date
- February 27, 2008
- Time
- 00:56:47 UTC
- Place
- Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom
- Magnitude
- 4.8 (mb)
- Magnitude scales
- mb 4.8 · ML 5.3
- Focal depth
- 18 km (11 mi)
- Tsunami
- None recorded
- Epicenter
- 53.403° N, 0.332° W
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Region
- Northern and Western Europe
- USGS record
- The USGS’s page for this earthquake
mb: body-wave (P-wave) magnitude. ML: local magnitude, the original Richter scale. NCEI’s headline magnitude is the best of these for the earthquake.
The toll
- Injuries
- 1
- Damage
- $68 million
- Houses damaged
- Few (about 1 to 50) with its tsunami and other effects
Where the literature gives no number, NCEI records a description on a scale of 1 to 4, printed here in its words. Damage is in millions of US dollars of the year of the event, not adjusted for inflation.
From Wikipedia
On 27 February 2008 at 00:56:47.8s GMT an earthquake occurred at Market Rasen, Lincolnshire, England. According to the British Geological Survey the earthquake registered a reading of 5.2 on the Richter scale, with its epicentre 2.5 miles (4 km) north of Market Rasen and 15 kilometres (9 mi) south-west of Grimsby.
The duration of the earthquake was confirmed as roughly 10 seconds.
Text from Wikipedia, “2008 Market Rasen earthquake”, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Quoted as written; the full article has the rest.
Wikidata records: 0 deaths and 1 injured. These are counts entered by Wikidata’s editors; they may differ from the official count, and this page never adds them to another figure. Q4611436, CC0.
What happened
The USGS’s account of the effects of this earthquake.
One person injured and buildings damaged in Lincolnshire and South Yorkshire. Felt (V) at Barnsley, Bedworth, Beeston and Stapleford, Bentley, Beverley, Bicester, Boston, Brigg, Brighouse, Chesterfield, Chorley, Doncaster, Droitwich, East Retford, Eaton Socon, Failsworth, Grantham, Grimsby, Heywood, Hinckley, Ilkeston, Kingston upon Hull, Leicester, Lincoln, Long Eaton, Loughborough, Mablethorpe and Sutton, Mansfield, Matlock, Melton Mowbray, Mold, Morley, Newark, Rotherham, Scunthorpe, Sheffield, Skegness, Sleaford, Spalding-Pinchbeck, Stamford, Whitefield and Worksop. Felt widely in the United Kingdom, north to Arbroath, southwest to Falmouth-Penryn and east to Great Yarmouth. Also felt at Douglas, Isle of Man; Antwerp, Brussels and Gent, Belgium; Aniche, France; Letterkenny, Ireland and Haarlem, The Netherlands.
From the USGS event page for usp000g02w. U.S. Geological Survey text and figures are in the public domain.
What the record says
NCEI’s account, from the sources it cites.
One person injured and buildings damaged in Lincolnshire and South Yorkshire. Felt widely in the United Kingdom, north to Arbroath, southwest to Falmouth-Penryn and east to Great Yarmouth. Also felt at Douglas, Isle of Man; Antwerp, Gent and Brussels, Belgium; Aniche, France; Letterkenny, Ireland and Haarlem, The Netherlands. (reference #1053)
1 injured, 68 million USD in economic loss (reference #13727)
Sources NCEI cites
The publications NCEI lists for this record. The numbers match the “reference #” notes in its account above.
- #1053 National Earthquake Information Center (NEIC) (1971 to 2013). Preliminary Determination of Epicenters (PDE), a weekly and monthly publication, National Earthquake Information Center, U.S. Geological Survey, Golden, Colorado, 1971 to 2013.
- #13727 Gallagher Re (2024). Earthquake data (since 2002) including economic losses. Gallagher Re. Provided 31 January 2024.
Other significant earthquakes nearby
Within 200 km, the deadliest first.
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Sources
Significant earthquakes from NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information, Global Historical Hazard Database, cited as NCEI/WDS, doi:10.7289/V5PN93H7. Public domain. Read 2026-10-01. NCEI earthquake 7872. The written accounts and the magnitude estimates are from the USGS earthquake catalog, event usp000g02w, matched to this record by time, place and magnitude.