Ireland has small earthquakes 'all the time'; seismic station installed at Mitchelstown Cave

Since its installation in May, the station has already detected earthquakes as far away as southern Peru and the Fiji Islands

(Left to right) Dr David Craig, technical officer for the Irish National Seismic Network, John English, owner of Mitchelstown Cave, and James Grannell, data analyst for the Irish National Seismic Network,  at the newly installed seismic station in Mitchelstown Cave. The station is one of nine seismic stations in Ireland. Picture: Michael O'Sullivan

Small earthquakes are happening in Ireland “all the time”, according to one of Ireland's top geophysicists.

Dr Martin Möllhoff says that although we might not actually feel any of them in Ireland - deemed one of the countries in the world least at risk of a devastating earthquake - the world is constantly moving beneath our feet.