4.1-magnitude quake jolts Tangshan
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A 4.1-magnitude earthquake jolted the northern Chinese city of Tangshan in Hebei Province late Friday afternoon,the China Earthquake Administration said.
No casualties or property damage was reported.
The quake struck the city's Fengnan District at 6:51 p.m. with a depth of about 13 km. The epicenter is calculated to be 39.5 degrees north latitude and 118.2 east longitude, the administration said.
A local resident told Xinhua he felt the floor under his feet suddenly began to shake when the quake hit.
The tremor was also felt in parts of the neighboring port city of Tianjin and Beijing, with many residents rushing out of their homes into the street.
"We are keeping a close eye on the situation," said Zhao Guomin, head of the earthquake administration in Tianjin.
"A wall-mounted LCD TV set and flower vases shook," said Wang Dong, a Tianjin resident, who was at home when the quake hit. "My instincts told me it was an earthquake."
"The sound of the ground shaking was like the rumbling of heavy trucks, which reminded me of the Tangshang earthquake more than 30 years ago," resident Ren Lihua, in her 40s, told Xinhua.
A 7.8-magnitude quake struck Tangshan in 1976, taking more than 240,000 lives.
"The tables and chairs shook violently," said Ren, who was eating dinner with friends at a small restaurant in northeast Tianjin's Ninghe County, which was razed to the ground in the devastating 1976 earthquake.
Two quakes, measuring 3.1 and 4.2 on the Richter scale, jolted Tangshan's Luanxian County on March 6 this year, and experts said they were aftershocks from the 1976 quake.
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