A recent earthquake in the southeast Asian country of Myanmar was detected over 9,000km away by a seismograph in Mitchelstown Cave.
The earthquake on March 28th, which registered a 7.7 on the Richter scale, was detected just over ten minutes later at the cave.
Another earthquake in New Zealand, which registered a 6.7, was also detected two days before the Myanmar quake.
The monitoring site in Mitchelstown is part of a network of 12 seismic stations managed by the Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies, set up to measure earthquakes in the North Atlantic.
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