The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has defended the appointment of a pro-fracking company to lead a research study into the practice in Ireland.

Experts have confirmed Nottinghamshire was hit by an earthquake earlier this evening as social media sites were flooded with reports of a tremor.

A small earthquake shook parts of the South East this evening, with one homeowner saying her daughter felt the tremor in her bed and another saying she felt the house shake.

The Irish National Seismic Network (INSN) has said that an earthquake measuring 2.6 magnitude occurred off the coast of Cork today.

Aftershocks from two earthquakes that struck in the Irish Sea may be felt for days to come, it has been claimed.

Two earthquakes have been recorded in the Irish Sea causing tremors on land nearby.

Tremors from an earthquake on the North Wales shoreline were felt in counties in south-east Ireland and at seismic stations in Valentia off the south-west coast, Donegal and Galway.

A minor earthquake was felt this morning in counties Dublin, , Carlow, Wexford and Kildare.

Irish mineral exploration company, Ormonde Mining has raised £1.4m (€1.7m) in fresh funding via a new share placing.

A 4.0-magnitude earthquake, the biggest earthquake in Ireland since 1984, occurred 60km west of the Mullet Peninsula off the coast of the west of Mayo last week, according to the British Geological Survey.

It has been confirmed that a minor earthquake struck Donegal last evening.

An earthquake measuring 2.2 on the Richter scale has been recorded in north Donegal.

SCIENTISTS have found scores of fossils which evolutionary theorist Charles Darwin and his peers collected but that had been lost for more than 160 years.

People in North East of England thought an earthquake was happening but it is thought to have been a fast plane flying overhead.

Tokyo is at risk from a powerful earthquake because the recent monster shock that hit the country put more stress on a nearby geological fault line, scientists warned today.

The tsunami triggered by the earthquake which rocked Japan’s eastern coast today will cause “horrific” damage, an expert has predicted.

Buildings wobbled and the ground rumbled after an earthquake measuring 3.5 on the Richter scale shook neighbouring counties in the UK.

A KILLER earthquake could hit London at any time, claiming untold numbers of lives and causing billions of pounds worth of damage, an expert warned.

Dozens of people were killed in their homes when an earthquake hit villages in eastern Turkey just before dawn today.

Dozens of people were killed in a massive earthquake which hit Chile today.

HOUSEHOLDERS across Britain were last night counting the cost of the biggest earthquake to hit Britain in nearly 25 years.

An earthquake measuring 5.2 on the Richter scale shook England this morning.

A massive earthquake killed at least 10 people, injured scores and triggered a small tsunami in western Indonesia today, authorities said.

North Wales was rocked by an earthquake today, the British Geological Survey said.

THE earthquake behind the tidal wave which swamped parts of Asia was caused by one of the plates which makes up the world’s surface moving a matter of metres, experts said yesterday.

Manchester was shaken by another small earthquake today, the British Geological Survey said.

Cornwall has been shaken by an earthquake measuring 3.6 on the Richter scale.

A Scottish town was today shaken by an earthquake measuring 2.9 on the Richter scale.