FRIDAY’S earthquake in Moidart has gone down in the record books as the biggest on Scotland’s West Coast for 30 years, and felt from Tiree up the Great Glen.
The magnitude 3.8 tremor was recorded by the British Geological Survey (BGS) at its epicentre 5km below the wild Moidart peninsula at 3.43pm.
The BGS stated the earthquake was ‘felt across the west’, and recorded a second tremor two minutes later measuring 3.4, and an aftershock almost two hours later registering 2.2.