Tag: coal mining

• Britain’s earthquakes since 1382: the big ones, the coalfield quakes and the biggest near you

  

  I mapped all 7,032 earthquakes in the British Geological Survey’s catalogues since 1382. Britain has a magnitude 4 about every 3 years, and its busiest modern earthquake zones were coalfields.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories

  data, history, Britain, maps, coal mining, earthquakes, geology, seismology

• Did the Pits Closing Still Show?

  

  196 deep mines were working in Britain at the start of 1984, and 167 had closed by 1994. Forty years on, the pit towns of England and Wales have 2.0 points more adults long-term sick than similar towns, whenever their pit closed.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories

  history, maps, data visualisation, open data, Census 2021, coal mining, miners’ strike, pit closures