May 17, 2019 Earthquake: Songyuan, Jilin Province, China
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake struck Songyuan, Jilin Province, China on May 17, 2019 at 22:24:52 UTC, 17 km below the surface.
Map
Where it struck, with the other significant earthquakes within 200 km. Circles are sized and colored by magnitude; select one for its page.
The earthquake
- Date
- May 17, 2019
- Time
- 22:24:52 UTC
- Place
- Songyuan, Jilin Province, China
- Magnitude
- 4.8 (mb)
- Focal depth
- 17 km (11 mi)
- Tsunami
- None recorded
- Epicenter
- 45.205° N, 124.611° E
- Country
- China
- Region
- East Asia
- USGS record
- The USGS’s page for this earthquake
The toll
- Damage
- Limited (under about $1 million)
- Houses damaged
- 167
Where the literature gives no number, NCEI records a description on a scale of 1 to 4, printed here in its words. Damage is in millions of US dollars of the year of the event, not adjusted for inflation.
What happened
The USGS’s account of the effects of this earthquake.
At least 167 houses damaged at Songyuan.
From the USGS event page for us70003mum. U.S. Geological Survey text and figures are in the public domain.
Magnitude estimates
The magnitudes the USGS catalog lists for this earthquake, by scale and by who computed them. NCEI’s own scales are in the table above.
| Mag. | Scale | Computed by | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.8 | mb, body-wave | USGS National Earthquake Information Center | Preferred · Reviewed · ±0.038 · 207 stations |
| 5.02 | Mw, moment | ISC-GEM global catalog | Final · ±0.1 |
What the record says
NCEI’s account, from the sources it cites.
As of Saturday noon, 476 people have been affected after a 5.1-magnitude earthquake jolted northeast China's Jilin Province, local authorities said. Around 167 households were damaged due to the quake in Ningjiang District of the city of Songyuan, among which 33 households suffered from serious house damages. 75 people have been relocated and no casualties or injuries have been reported. The earthquake has caused direct economic loss of over 3 million yuan (around 435,600 U.S. dollars). (reference #12434)
Sources NCEI cites
The publications NCEI lists for this record. The numbers match the “reference #” notes in its account above.
- #1053 National Earthquake Information Center (NEIC) (1971 to 2013). Preliminary Determination of Epicenters (PDE), a weekly and monthly publication, National Earthquake Information Center, U.S. Geological Survey, Golden, Colorado, 1971 to 2013.
- #12434 Xinhua News Agency (2019). Houses damaged in Jilin's 5.1-magnitude quake. Published 18 May 2019. Link
Other significant earthquakes nearby
Within 200 km, the deadliest first.
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Sources
Significant earthquakes from NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information, Global Historical Hazard Database, cited as NCEI/WDS, doi:10.7289/V5PN93H7. Public domain. Read 2026-10-01. NCEI earthquake 10410. The written accounts and the magnitude estimates are from the USGS earthquake catalog, event us70003mum, matched to this record by time, place and magnitude.