Donegal: Minor earthquake detected by school equipment

The school’s equipment often picks up quakes in the area, but has also previously picked up sporting events and even weapons testing.

Speaking to BBC News NI, Mr O’Donaghue said their equipment picked up the small earthquake at 02:18 local time on Wednesday.

“The equipment picked it up from an area known as the Malin Sea, then, later on it picked up a 2.2 in the North Channel.”

Mr O’Donaghue said a quake of 0.9 magnitude is not something that would likely have been felt by anyone in the Culdaff area, but said it highlighted just how much seismic activity was happening across the area.

The Irish National Seismic Network (INSN) described it as “a rather small earthquake” and said “similar events occur from time to time, especially in Donegal”.