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The largest earthquake to hit the UK for a decade has struck in Wales and been felt as far away as Birmingham, the British Geological Survey (BGS) has confirmed.

People reported feeling buildings shake and a university was evacuated as the 4.4 magnitude tremor happened around 2pm.

The quake's epicentre was registered around 12 miles north east of Swansea and its hypocentre, the point where the shift actually happened, was five miles under the surface of the earth.
The BGS said earthquakes of this magnitude occur in the UK around once every two to three years.

A spokesman for the BGS said: “It was a reasonably sized earthquake. This earthquake has been felt across a large area of Wales and England with the furthest reports so far from Birmingham and Devon.