Mull earthquake Sunday 13th

Just as well it wasn’t Friday 13th or it might have been worse.

Argyll’s Isle of Mull got hit by an earthquake yesterday morning (Sunday 13th December) at 5.39am. The island trembled and Dave Sexton, the RSPB’s Mull officer, was shaken awake by it. Cool as ever (if you eyeball white tailed Sea Eagles on a daily basis, cool is what you have to be), he describes it as: ‘Quite impressive’.

Centred on Gruline at Loch Ba, It registered 2.3 magnitude on the Richter Scale, with a hypocentric depth of 11.2km.

The last ‘earthquake’ around this area of the west coast turned out to be the Navy on last year’s Exercise Joint Warrior – belatedly owning up to doing something highly explosive on the seabed of The Minch.

But this one’s for real. This Autumn’s Exercise Joint Warrior 09 is over.