A 3.5 magnitude earthquake occurred in Pohang, North Gyeongsang Province, on Monday at 4:19 p.m., the weather agency said.

The Korea Meteorological Agency first set the scale of the quake at 3.7 magnitude but later corrected it to magnitude 3.5.

Yoo Oh-sang, a Herald Business correspondent who was in the city at the time of the aftershock, said, “I was at a coffee shop when the earthquake shook the floor. I could hear the sound of rocks ricocheting off the floor.”

This quake is the 70th aftershock of the record 5.4 magnitude quake that hit the city on Nov. 15. 



By Lim Jeong-yeo (kaylalim@heraldcorp.com)