At least 208 people are confirmed dead after a major earthquake with a magnitude of 7.8 hit a remote area of south western Pakistan.

Tremors were so powerful they were recorded in Ireland.

The earthquake struck the province of Balochistan on at 12.29pm on Tuesday afternoon. The region is prone to earthquakes, with at least 35 killed in a 7.8-magnitude quake in April. 

Irish Seismometers in Donegal, Wexford, Kerry, Galway and Dublin recorded the quake, seen as one of the strongest to occur in the world this year. 

In 2005, a 7.6-magnitude earthquake centred in Kashmir killed at least 73,000 people and left several million homeless in one of the worst natural disasters to hit Pakistan.