So many memories from childhood

Bretrick said:
It was probably back in 1967, I was woken up in the early hours by the house trembling slightly from a very mild earthquake.
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we had the same.. I think it was around '64... we lived in a prefab... and we had a very slight earthquake in the early hours of the morning, but it was enough to toss us all out of bed...


Just looked it up, and indeed it was 1964

IT IS almost six decades since an earthquake big enough to hit the headlines around the world made Glasgow shake


‘Homes Shake in Mystery Blast’ said our front page that day, describing how hundreds of homes in Paisley, Inchinnan, Knightswood, Milngavie and Bearsden felt the tremor, described by the Geophysical Journal International as “sufficiently violent and extensive to be widely reported.”
“People in a wide area awoke in alarm as their beds rocked violently,” we reported.

“The house shook alarmingly,” she explained. “It seemed to me that there was a definite boom of an explosion first and that was followed by a distinct tremor.”

“Dishes and other material in houses were broken, but there was little other damage.”


There were more than 4,000 earthquakes recorded across Scotland over the past 50 years, including a 4.4 magnitude quake in Knoydart Peninsula in 1974.
There were 1,500 earthquakes recorded in Edinburgh and the Lothians over the same period.
The largest earthquake in the Lothians was in Rosewell on 9 October 1986 with a 2.8 magnitude on the Richter Scale.
Among the other areas with the most geological activity, external were Clackmannanshire and Dumfries.
A seismometer at the Royal Observatory in Edinburgh records earthquakes within a 30km (19 miles) radius.
More recently there was a 2.2 magnitude earthquake recorded in Penicuik in Midlothian on 13 November 2014.
There were two 2.3 magnitude earthquakes in Penicuik on 30 November and 9 December 2007.
 
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