STUDENTS at a Cork school have seen at first hand the scale of an earthquake which occurred at 15.52GMT in Kyrgistan last week.

Over 60 people are reported to have died and over one hundred houses were destroyed in the earthquake which scored 6.6 on the Richter scale.

Science and Geography students at the school have been analysing the wave patterns after a state-of-the-art seismograph installed in the Presentation Brothers school mapped the tremors with a high level of precision and clarity.

The Seismograph has been funded as part of the 'Seismology in Schools' programme funded by the Institute For Advanced Studies in Dublin. The Chríost RÍ students are part of a project which envisages international co-operation in the field of seismology between schools throughout Europe and the United States.

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