Landmark 74 Earthquake House, Comrie, Perthshire & Kinross Situated in a field in The Ross at the western end of the 'Shakey Toun' of Comrie in Perth and Kinross, the Earthquake House was built in 1874 for the British Association´s Committee for the Investigation of Scottish and Irish Earthquakes. A small, square building, it contains a model of the original Mallet Seismometer alongside modern seismological instruments installed by the British Geological Survey. Earthquake House is positioned on the Highland Boundary Fault, the first earthquake having been recorded here in 1597. A major series of 70 shocks were noted in 1789 and the world´s first seismometers was set up in Comrie in 1840