On Monday, May 12, 2008, at 2:28 PM local time (06:28 UTC), an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.9 occurred 80 km westnorthwest of Chengdu, Sichuan, China. The earthquake is also called Great Sichuan Earthquake (simplified Chinese: 四川大地震; traditional Chinese: 四川大地震; pinyin: Sìchuān dà dìzhèn) or Wenchuan earthquake (simplified Chinese: 汶川大地震; traditional Chinese: 汶川大地震; pinyin: Wènchuān dà dìzhèn), after the earthquake's epicenter in Wenchuan County, Sichuan province. The earthquake was felt as far away as Beijing (1,500 km away) and Shanghai (1,700 km away), where office buildings swayed with the tremor. The earthquake was also felt in nearby countries.