A TOWN in Stirlingshire has been hit by five earthquakes just days apart.
The first tremor, measuring a 1.3 magnitude, hit Kippen on Tuesday, February 18 at around 8.12pm, close to the A811 according to data by The British Geological Survey (BGS) Seismology Team.
The quake's depth was recorded at around 3km.
A second, slightly smaller tremor with a 1.2 magnitude also hit the village just three days later at around 9.57pm on Friday, February 21, at the same depth of 3km.
Then on Saturday, February 22, there was another tremor measuring a 0.9 magnitude at around 12.24am and at a depth of 3km followed by another quake measuring a 1.6 magnitude at around 2.46am at a depth of 7km on the same day.
There were another two tremors recorded by the team at 4.43pm on Sunday, February 23, which hit two different parts of the village, one measuring a 0.1 magnitude and the other measuring a 0.7 magnitude and both at 5km in depth.
It was reported that there was no damage to any properties and locals only felt some of the tremors.
BGS monitors and lists tectonic earthquake activity in and around the British Isles with a separate list of seismic events for which there is strong evidence that they have been induced by human activities.
Tremors can come in clusters with a sequence of seismic events occurring within one area in a relatively short period of time known as an earthquake swarm.
