Beijing residents shaken in their beds by 4.5 magnitude quake

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Hong Kong/Beijing (CNN) — A light earthquake rattled Beijing overnight, waking residents and sending students rushing from their dorms as videos of shaking living rooms went viral on Chinese social media on Wednesday. The 4.5-magnitude quake struck a suburb of the nearby port city of Tianjin at 01:21 a.m. local time at a depth of 10 kilometers (6.2 miles), according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS). The China Earthquake Networks Cen…

By Nectar Gan and Fred He, CNN A mild earthquake jolted Beijing overnight, waking residents and sending students running from their dormitories as videos of shaking living rooms went viral on Chinese social media Wednesday. The magnitude 4.5 quake hit a suburb of the nearby port city of Tianjin at 1:21 a.m. local time at a depth of 10 kilometers (6 miles), according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). The China Earthquake Networks Center measu…

Beijing residents shaken in their beds by 4.5 magnitude quake

By Nectar Gan and Fred He, CNN Hong Kong/Beijing (CNN) — A light earthquake rattled Beijing overnight, waking residents and sending students rushing from their dorms as videos of shaking living rooms went viral on Chinese social media on Wednesday. The 4.5-magnitude quake struck a suburb of the nearby port city of Tianjin at 01:21 a.m. local time at a depth of 10 kilometers (6.2 miles), according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS). Th…

Early warning system alerts people before quake in N China

At 1:21 a.m. on March 26, a magnitude-4.2 earthquake struck Yongqing County in Langfang City, north China's Hebei Province, at a depth of 20 kilometers. Many residents in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region reported feeling the tremor.Following the earthquake,

4.5 quake rattles Beijing

Hong Kong — A light earthquake rattled Beijing overnight, waking residents and sending students rushing from their dorms as videos of shaking living rooms went viral on Chinese social media on Wednesday.The 4.5-magnitude quake struck a suburb of the nearby port city of Tianjin at 01:21 a.m. local time at a depth of ten kilometers (6.2 miles), according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS).The China Earthquake Networks Center measured th…

A 4.2-magnitude earthquake struck Yongqing District in Langfang City, north China's Hebei Province, early Wednesday morning. The China Earthquake Networks Center said the tremor struck at a depth of 20 kilometers. China Central Television reported that residents of the capital, Beijing, felt the tremor, and many received warning messages on their mobile phones. Monitoring equipment recorded five aftershocks in the same area by 3 a.m. following t…