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Second tremor felt in Tangshan after yesterday's jolt
By Wang Qingchu |
May 29, 2012, Tuesday
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ANOTHER earthquake measuring 3.2 on the Richter scale hit north China's Hebei Province around 5am this morning, the China Earthquake Networks Center announced.
The epicenter is 6 kilometers underground in the border between Tangshan City and Luanxian County, the center said. It followed a 4.8-magnitude quake in the same area at 10:22 yesterday morning.
The tremor this morning was felt by many Tangshan residents but local life was not affected.
Some seismologists believe the two quakes were aftershocks of the devastating 7.8-magnitude quake in 1976, which claimed more than 242,000 lives. But the notion was questioned by researchers with the state seismological monitoring center.
Both experts said the aftershocks were normal movement of the earth's crust and people need not to panic.
The epicenter is 6 kilometers underground in the border between Tangshan City and Luanxian County, the center said. It followed a 4.8-magnitude quake in the same area at 10:22 yesterday morning.
The tremor this morning was felt by many Tangshan residents but local life was not affected.
Some seismologists believe the two quakes were aftershocks of the devastating 7.8-magnitude quake in 1976, which claimed more than 242,000 lives. But the notion was questioned by researchers with the state seismological monitoring center.
Both experts said the aftershocks were normal movement of the earth's crust and people need not to panic.
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