{"id":715394,"date":"2026-07-28T13:08:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T13:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/715394\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T13:08:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T13:08:11","slug":"highland-villages-woken-by-shuddering-as-early-morning-earthquake-hits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/715394\/","title":{"rendered":"Highland villages woken by &#8216;shuddering&#8217; as early morning earthquake hits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People in the west Highlands of Scotland were shaken awake in the early hours of the morning on Tuesday by an earthquake.<\/p>\n<p>The seismic event occurred just after 3am on Tuesday in the Spean Bridge area and was felt by \u201cseveral people\u201d in Roybridge, Inverlair, Fort William and villages within a 20 km radius of the epicentre.<\/p>\n<p>The British Geological Survey measured the earthquake at a magnitude of 2.5 and a depth of 5km.<\/p>\n<p>Residents reported hearing a \u201cdeep rumble\u201d for five seconds and a \u201csmall explosion underground\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Others felt a \u201cslight shuddering\u201d inside their homes. One resident said they were woken by crystals \u201crattling in a tray\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>STV News is now on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Get all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaCESJzKgsNvKKNOYO2r\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">      Follow STV News <\/a>Follow STV News on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Scan the QR code on your mobile device for all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/whatsapp-qr.png\" alt=\"WhatsApp channel QR Code\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"People in the west Highlands of Scotland were shaken awake in the early hours of the morning on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":715395,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-715394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=715394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/715395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}