Talk:1990 Bishop's Castle earthquake

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Source 1, the report of the Earthquake Engineering Research Unit, is the only truly contemporary source I have been able to find so far on the Internet. It confirms many of my own personal eyewitness memories on which this article was first founded and reminds me of one or two others such as the damage to the churches, but does not cover all of what I witnessed and remember. This is because it is a summary report by a third-party international body located abroad from the UK, and which therefore in itself relied wholly on news reporting and second-hand tip-offs from geological insiders based in the UK. So it is accurate as far as it goes, but misses some eyewitness details out.
The only way to improve on this from contemporary published sources would be to seek out archives of the local papers the Shropshire Star and the Shrewsbury Chronicle from the time and use their material to flesh out this shell. I am not living in Shropshire any more and cannot do this, nor do I know if the papers in question keep a complete archive of their old numbers. Perhaps a resident of Shrewsbury or the surrounding area could do this.
Until then, personal eyewitness memories by people who were there at the scene of the worst damage are the only solution for providing that detail. These people, myself included, may not have ever seen fit to write these memories down at any other website, but that does not invalidate them or render them inaccurate.
For the record, I was myself in an upstairs room at 21, Bishop Street, at the crossroads with Clifford Street in the Cherry Orchard area of Shrewsbury at the time of the quake, resting after a bicycle ride, yet wide awake, and vividly remember every detail of the sound and the movement of the wall as described. I was genuinely anxious that the whole wall might collapse into the front garden and bring down at least part of the roof with it, because the wall was shifting at least half a foot from side to side in rapid repetitive movements. When it died down I went right outside and found that almost everyone was out in the street looking shocked but relieved, and that at least two chimneys just a few houses down Bishop Street on the other side had fallen completely into their small front gardens. I wandered to the end of Clifford Street and looked at the adjacent streets that intersect with it too, and found several other examples of collapsed chimneys just in that one little local area of the town. And that was just from street-level, without seeing possibly others in people's hidden-from-view back gardens. I returned to switch on the radio and heard the epicentre being successively mooted as being in Nottingham, then somewhere in the east of mid-Wales, and then finally in Shropshire, in successive reports over the next few hours. I also remember that it was reported that there was less structural damage in the immediate vicinity of the epicentre than there was further north in and around Shrewsbury, which seems to be borne out by Source 1; and though I don't know the technical seismological reasons for this, there were rumours locally that some of the worst-affected parts of Shrewsbury lay on a weaker underlying rock formation which would tend to amplify the seismic waves. Philip Graves (talk) 23:18, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
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