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2022-03-21, M5.2, North Sea

On the 21st of March 2022 at 06:32 UTC a magnitude M5.2 earthquake occurred in the North Sea, approximately 205 km WNW of Bergen, Norway. The earthquake located with a depth of 10 km and was reported felt from the western parts of southern Norway. The earthquake location is indicated by the red circle in the map below. The North Sea has low to intermediate seismicity with the majority of it occurring along the Norwegian coastline. Events are generally below M3 however a similar magnitude event was recorded in the same region on the 24th January 1927.

The event was recorded by seismic stations worldwide, including stations in the Irish National Seismic Network (INSN) (see figure below). The first seismic waves originating from the North Sea earthquake arrived in Ireland ~2 minutes after the event origin.

For more information on the North Sea earthquake please see these links:

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000h6bi/executive

https://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=1109087

https://nnsn.geo.uib.no/nnsn/#/news

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