This is the intense moment students rushed out of a classroom when an earthquake hit China.

Residents experienced a 3.7 magnitude earthquake in Hefei, Anhui, on the afternoon of January 16.

CCTV footage shows schoolchildren answering their worksheets when the sudden tremor baffled them, prompting an immediate evacuation outside the building.

They can be seen quickly standing up and exiting the door in just seconds after the quake.

Local media reported no casualties from the disaster.

On January 2, locals experienced the first tremor of the year, a magnitude 4.8 earthquake, in Nanning.

The Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) said that China accounts for one-third of the world's destructive continental earthquakes. Since 1900, more than 550,000 people have died in earthquakes in the country, which represents 53 per cent of the total casualties in earthquakes worldwide.