Another small earthquake in Derbyshire. This one was near Matlock and only about 3.5 miles from me in Winster. I felt a shove from the back of my sofa as if someone was behind it and hit it, and the door to the room opened. Several neighbours were out on the road and looking out of open windows...

From https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-67870481 "According to the British Geological Survey (BGS), the tremor's epicentre was north of the town of Buxton, close to Combs Head. The 2.5 magnitude earthquake was recorded at about 17:30 GMT on Tuesday, and had a reported depth of...

"The remnants of a small-scale 20th Century colliery in Derbyshire have been added to Historic England's National Heritage List." On the BBC website: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-67722435

A posting from climber and author Andy Kirkpatrick relating to "Limbic Hijack" and how this affects the usage of many autolock descenders (and other actions where a panic reaction occurs). It includes a story of his first experience of a Petzl Stop and how things didn't go as expected, luckily...

David Webb has released his excellent video about the history of the Ecton Mines in Staffordshire, "The Hollow Hill - The Story Of The Ecton Mines", on his Youtube channel:

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Let's hope for a happy and good 2023!

Sid Perou has just released a video on Youtube about his Cave Diving Story films made for the BBC in the past:

Interesting...

Just out of interest..., I felt a tremor earlier today @ 14:37. I'm based in Derbyshire near Bakewell and Matlock and according to https://earthquakes.bgs.ac.uk/earthquakes/recent_events/20220530143543.html#page=summary it was magnitude 3.8 and located in Wem, Shropshire.

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