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Wed 07 Jul 2009An Irishman's Diary
WHEN THE earthquake hit Dublin, no one expected it. There hadn’t been any significant seismic activity in Ireland since 1951, and even that event had been comparatively mild, writes KARL WHITNEY
Then, at about 7.57am on July 19th, 1984, with no advance warning, the earth shook with a previously unknown ferocity in Dublin and all the way along the east coast of Ireland. The epicentre of the quake was at a point south-west of Caernarvon on the Lleyn peninsula in Wales.
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