Earthquake rocks small UK village of 320 Brits for the third time in 4 weeks

A small UK village with a inhabitants of simply 320 individuals has been rocked by three large earthquakes in simply 4 weeks.

Movern within the Scottish Highlands has turn into the epicentre of a lot of the UK’s seismic exercise in current weeks. The first ground-shaking occasion was recorded by the British Geological Survey on February 1, which measured 2.8 on the Richter scale at round 6.34pm, with a second measuring 1.4 taking place simply minutes later at 7.06pm.

And the third hit the realm within the early hours of yesterday morning (February 27) at 5.56am, measuring 1.4 on the dimensions. It was felt as deep down as round eight kilometres. The actual location of the recorded earthquake was close to the Single File Road resulting in Morvern, though there may be nothing within the space aside from hills and rivers.

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David Galloway, a seismologist with the BGS mentioned earlier this 12 months in regards to the space: “We get around 300 earthquakes a year in the UK and northwest Scotland is one of the most active places. We live in a dynamic planet, there are lots of plates moving about. There are stresses in the rocks and movement in the Earth’s crust, and in the UK every now and then the stress exceeds the strength of the rock and there will be a little earthquake.”

The BGS additionally confirmed that the majority quakes in Scotland occur close to a line of round 135 miles from Dunoon to Ullapool alongside the west coast – together with Movern. So far, the BGS has recorded eight quakes in Morvern for the reason that begin of December 2023, with the three newest ones taking that whole to 11.

In reality, alongside the west coast, greater than 25 earthquakes have been recorded within the final 60 days. BGS says there are different hotspots close to Great Glen at Inverness and Glen Spean. Another “small” centre of exercise is across the Comrie space of Perthshire and extends south to Stirling and Glasgow.

The largest earthquake ever recorded in Scotland was in November 1880 when a tremor measuring 5.2 on the Richter scale was recorded in Argyll. The motion was felt proper alongside the west coast and into Perthshire.

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