Tag Archives: 2021-11-16

On the 16th of November 2021 at 01:44 UTC a magnitude 3.3 earthquake occurred in Western Scotland. The earthquake located with a depth of approximately 6 km and is indicated by the red circle in the map below. There have been reports of the event being felt in Scotland and Northern Ireland.

The event was recorded by the stations of the Irish National Seismic Network (INSN) and can be seen in the waveforms plotted below:

Listen to Dr Martin Möllhoff discussing this event on RTE Radio 1’s Morning Ireland show here:

https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips/22030318/

More information is available from:

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000fugg/executive

https://www.emsc.eu/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=1062853

http://www.earthquakes.bgs.ac.uk/earthquakes/recent_events/20211116014340.html#page=summary