COMRIE - A HISTORICAL SCOTTISH EARTHQUAKE SWARM AND ITS PLACE IN THE HISTORY OF SEISMOLOGY

Earthquake swarm activity at Comrie, Perthshire was particularly marke d in the period 1839-1846. It served as a focus for early scientific i nterest in earthquakes in the UK, chiefly under the aegis of the Briti sh Association for the Advancement of Science. The work done included both macroseismic and instrumental investigations, and saw the first u se of the inverted pendulum in seismology, as well as the first seismo meter network anywhere in the world.