1976 Tangshan earthquake | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-05-15

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00:01:30 1 The earthquakes
00:04:51 2 Damage
00:06:52 2.1 Intensity XI and X zone
00:08:33 2.2 Intensity IX and VIII zone
00:09:58 2.3 Intensity VII zone
00:11:20 2.4 Coal mines
00:12:57 2.5 Railways
00:17:21 3 Death toll
00:17:41 3.1 Early reports
00:21:49 3.2 Official figures
00:23:11 4 Political aspects
00:25:50 5 Geology
00:29:41 6 Question of prediction
00:36:59 7 Comparison
00:40:58 8 Cultural references
00:41:18 9 See also
00:42:00 10 Notes
00:42:09 11 Sources
00:42:19 12 Further reading
00:43:32 13 External links



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The 1976 Tangshan earthquake,  also known as Great Tangshan earthquake, was a natural disaster resulting from a magnitude 7.6 earthquake that hit the region around Tangshan, Hebei, People's Republic of China on July 28, 1976, at 3:42 in the morning. In minutes the city of Tangshan, an industrial city with approximately one million inhabitants, ceased to exist. Eighty-five percent of the buildings in the city collapsed or were unusable, all services failed, and most of the highway and railway bridges collapsed or were seriously damaged. At least 242,000 people died (some have said three times that), making this the third (or possibly second) deadliest earthquake in recorded history.Tangshan was the most notable of several disasters in 1976, which in Chinese tradition might signal that the government had lost political legitimacy. The Tangshan earthquake also came without warning, undermining a key tenet of Maoist ideology, that earthquakes could be predicted. Nonetheless, the government's response showed that it was prepared and competent to quickly provide relief.