Shandong Province, the province’s big cooling Penglai sea also occurred 3.8 magnitude earthquake

While Shandong Province was experiencing a sudden drop in temperature, a 3.8 magnitude earthquake occurred in the sea of Penglai District, Yantai City. The quake was felt in Weihai and Dalian. Half of the province of Shandong had a low temperature of -10 ℃ or less, and many places in Shandong issued an emergency notice that classes could be suspended due to the cold wave.

January 6 at 16:40, Jinan City Meteorological Station issued another cold wave yellow warning signal, referring to the impact of cold wave, the city has been a strong cooling and windy weather, January 7 ~ 8 cold air continued to affect the local, cooling range of 10 ℃ ~ 14 ℃. The temperature is expected to drop to the lowest in the morning of the 7th, with the northern areas and mountainous regions at about -24℃ to -22℃, and urban areas and other areas at about -19℃ to -17℃.

Meteorological data show that from 20:00 on January 5 to 16:00 on January 6, half of the province of Shandong had a low temperature of -10℃ or less. According to the provincial meteorological station in previous years, January 5 ~ 9 historical low temperature, in addition to Heze, Weifang, Jining, Zaozhuang, Liaocheng, Weiwei overseas, the other 10 cities may break the lowest temperature record for the same period.

On this occasion, at 16:46 on January 6, a 3.8 magnitude earthquake occurred in the sea of Penglai District, Yantai City, Shandong Province (37.99 degrees north latitude, 120.41 degrees east longitude), with a depth of 7 km. Netizens in Laizhou, Weihai and Dalian said they felt the quake; netizens in Penglai said they shook a lot.

In addition, due to the sudden drop in temperature, Shandong many local education bureau issued an emergency notice that the cold wave can be affected by the suspension of classes. Weifang, for example, the city’s kindergartens, elementary school, junior high schools closed for one day on the 7th (boarding schools to determine their own), counties and urban areas, schools can be closed since the afternoon of the 6th.