Exercise Joint Warrior 2008 shakes things up
We recently warned you that there would be military exercises taking place around the country, and this week the British Geological Survey (BGS) confirmed it (honest, their name really is Survey, and not Society, as the BBC have them described as I write - I use their services, they’d get rightly upset if I got their name wrong).
Obliged to class their observations as earthquakes until alternate confirmation could be made, the BGS recorded explosions in the Minch, between the mainland and the Western Isles, three times last week, at magnitudes of 1.1, 1.5 and 1.9.
The major exercise involved numerous simulated bombing runs, and is one of the few remaining where live firing of most weapons available is authorised.
In a later news item (where the Beeb got ‘Survey’ right), the Royal Navy confirmed that the explosions recorded by earthquake recording equipment were caused by military mine clearance training.
