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It comes two weeks after residents in the North Yorkshire town of Ripon experienced a quake of a similar size on 4 January.
The Highland quake was the largest in the area since a seismic event of a magnitude of 3.4 was detected at Glenfinnan in October 2008.
Seismologist Davie Galloway said the UK tended to experience such quakes, on average, about once a year.
He added: “Britain is criss-crossed by many geological faults but fortunately we are some distance away from the plate edges where most activity is experienced.”
Also see: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-12262293
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