The 2002 Dudley earthquake was an earthquake registering 5.0 on the Richter scale that struck the Midlands of United Kingdom on 23 September 00:54 UTC (01:54 local time) and lasted approximately 20 seconds. It was the largest earthquake to hit the UK for nearly 10 years, but there were no fatalities. The epicentre was located at the junction of High Arcal Road and Himley Road, Dudley. The tremor was felt in many distant parts of the United Kingdom, including Wales, North Yorkshire, Wiltshire and London.
Earthquakes occurring at boundaries of tectonic plates are called interplate earthquakes, while the less frequent events that occur in the interior of the lithospheric plates are called intraplate earthquakes.
Some earthquakes are the result of a number of anthropogenic sources, such as extraction of minerals and fossil fuel from the Earth's crust, the removal or injection of fluids into the crust, reservoir-induced seismicity, massive explosions, and collapse of large buildings.
Earthquakes have also been known to be caused by the removal of natural gas from subsurface deposits, for instance in the northern Netherlands.
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