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One of the tremors awoke one resident, with the shaking of their house feeling “like a freight train”. A 0.9 magnitude shake was recorded at Roybridge in the Highlands at 4.09am this morning.

It came just an hour and a half after a 1.6 quake hit the same village.

The two tremors occurred at a depth of 7km, the British Geological Survey said.

Both came 58 minutes after residents in western Scotland were shaken by an earthquake measuring 3.3 on the Richter scale.

The epicentre was estimated to be 88 miles north-west of Glasgow.

The British Geological Survey noted that people living in the Lochgilphead area typically described the event as a “loud, deep rumbling” that “sounded like an explosion” or “like rolling thunder”.

The “loud bang woke us up” as “the house and windows shook”.

Victoria Winters told the Mail that the earthquake rumbled through her home “like a freight train”, waking her and her husband John.

The management consultant added: “It sounds like something really big is hurtling towards you.

“I live in a big echo-y old stone house, so it makes quite a noise when it comes through.

“It’s not the first time I’ve experienced one here, so I knew what it was. I can imagine if you hadn’t experienced it before then it could be quite scary.

“I’ve felt about four in the last ten years. It lasted five or six seconds, enough to wake me up, carry on and then I could tell when it was coming through the house.

“It came through where the bedroom is.

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“It got louder and then the bed shook from side to side and the noise carried on and veered up the ridge.”

Alison Suter, who lives in Oban, was also woken by the earthquake.

She said: “My bed actually rumbled but my cat was asleep at the foot of the bed and she took a terrible fright and dived in beside me.

“It was a low rumble, it sounded like a lorry going past. It was more of a deep growl. We’ve had smaller earthquakes in the last three years or so.

“There was one that was 2.2 on the Richter scale but this one definitely felt more violent.”

Rosemary Neagle, who lives on a farm in Kilmartin Glen near Lochgilphead, said the noise of the tremor was so loud that she initially thought something had exploded in one of her sheds.

She told BBC Radio’s Good Morning Scotland programme: “It kept on intensifying and the house vibrated. It rumbled on for about 10 seconds afterwards, so it was quite frightening.

“I have experienced them before here but never to that extent. The house has never shook like that in the past.”

The largest recorded earthquake in Scotland occurred in 1880, with a magnitude of 5.2.

They are often attributed to glacial rebound. Until just over 10,000 years ago, most of the north of the UK was covered by a thick layer of ice.

The weight of this pushed the rock beneath down into the earth’s mantle, and they have been slowly rising since the ice melted.

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