On the 17th of April 2022 at 18:48 UTC a magnitude M2.5 earthquake occurred in the North Atlantic, approximately 90km NW of Donegal, locating south of the Rockall Trough. The earthquake located with a depth of 10 km. In the map below the epicentre of the earthquake is indicated with a red marker. Major fault zones in and around Ireland are shown with black lines. The most recent detected earthquake at this location was M0.7, occurring on the 6th of March 2022. Further to the north in the Rockall Trough, earthquakes with magnitudes up to M4.0 have been detected regularly since 1980.
The event was recorded by the Irish National Seismic Network (INSN) and can be seen in the waveforms plotted below:
