DONEGAL residents were left in shock as an earthquake shook local towns last night.
Brendan O’Donoghue, a physics teacher at St Columba’s College, confirmed he read a magnitude reading of 1.1.
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He told The Irish Sun: “I have many reports of noise, a few of shaking. From Churchill to the NW to Aghayaran to the SE.
“Thunder, or ‘explosion like rumbling’ is how people are describing it.”
Last night, Brendan’s children thought they heard “snow sliding off the roof” which urged him to check the seismograph.
Brendan said: “It’s a magnitude 1.1. I reckon I was within eight kilometres of it, I live about four kilometres…
