Google MapsResidents in Perthshire have described being by two earthquakes in less than a week.
A magnitude 1.8 earthquake struck at 5am on Monday, April 7, and was felt by a household in Invervar.
They said it “only lasted a couple of seconds and sounded like a badly installed washing machine kicking into a fast spin cycle”.
The second quake came last week on April 2 and had a magnitude of 1.7.
STV NewsHitting at 10.55pm, residents in Fearnan, Kinloch Rannoch and Tummel Bridge felt the effects.
A British Geological Survey report said that “roof tiles rattled” and that “the intensity of the noise was extremely loud”. They added that there was “a loud rumbling building in volume.”
Both quakes are estimated to have happened at around 3km in depth and very close to each other, just north of Glen Lyon and south of Loch Rannoch.
Scotland’s largest recorded earthquake came in 1880, near Loch Awe, between Oban, Inveraray and Lochgilphead.
The magnitude 5.2 quake was felt along the West Coast, as far east as Perthshire, and across Northern Ireland.
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