‘It was the most terrifying experience’
Journalist Keith Lynch described the intensity of the earthquake. “It was absolutely incredible,” he said. “You could feel everything vibrating around you and then it grew more intense and you got the feeling that the ground could go from under you.”
Keith, from Galway, had experienced earthquakes but never one like this. “It was the most terrifying experience of my life,” he told Pat Kenny or RTÉ radio. “Some streets were absolutely destroyed and then this liquid silt began to push up from the ground into a grey sludge. I was weaving in an out of huge holes in the ground and dodging cars along the way.”
