Loch Etive villages suffer earthquake at 1.9 on Richter scale
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Villages facing each other across Loch Etive suffered Argyll’s third earthquake in a month yesterday morning around 8.00am. Experts say that the tremor had a depth of about 5 miles and that its epicentre was NNW of Bonawe and N of Airds Point.
It was felt on the southern shores of the loch in Taynuilt , Airds Bay and Connell and on the north shores in North Connel, Ardchattan and Bonawe.
David Galloway, a seismologist with the British Geological Survey says that they have had reports of what sounded like ‘a distant explosion’ which rattled windows and shook houses.
On 22nd February the same area had a shock recorded at 1.8 on the Richter Scale; and on 2nd March Dunoon was hit by one measuring 1.2.
At least this time it can’t be blamed on the Navy. It’s engaged in a major exercise outside British waters this time – Operation Taurus 09 in the Mediterranean, the Suez Canal and the Gulf.
On 10th October 2008 an earthquake was registered at Glenfinnan at the head of Loch Sheil in Lochaber which the British Geological Survey (BGS) recorded at 3.4 on the Richter Scale.
Reports of it were received from Fort William, Glenfinnan, Ardgour, Strontian and Drumnadrochit – a wide spectrum of the west coast above Argyll and penetrating deep inland.
Then, as For Argyll reported at the time, the Navy put their hands up. It indicated that the explosions recorded and previously accepted as an earthquake were in fact caused by mine clearance training in The Minch during the international Joint Warrior military exercise.
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