Tangshan quake in 1976
The Tangshan earthquake ( Chinese 唐山 大 地震 , Pinyin Tángshān dàdìzhèn ) on July 28, 1976 in Hebei Province was the most devastating earthquake of the 20th century, killing up to 650,000 people .
According to official information from China , a total of 242,419 people were killed in the quake with a magnitude M S = 7.8.
At 3:42 a.m. local time, the city of Tangshan was shaken and almost completely destroyed by the quake, which had its epicenter 20 km southwest of Tangshan and whose center was 22 kilometers below the surface. The quake also caused damage in Tianjin and Beijing , which is 140 kilometers away. 5.3 million houses became uninhabitable. There were several aftershocks that claimed more lives, the strongest of which was 7.1.
A stele in the main square in the center of the city and an earthquake information center that deals with earthquakes reminds of the earthquake. Another museum is located in Lanzhou, dedicated to the Haiyuan earthquake in 1920. The associated seismic zone is the Tancheng - Lujiang - Fault Zone 郯 城 - 庐江 断裂带 (short: Tan Lu Fault 郯 庐 断裂带 ), which caused the 1976 quake in its northern section.
The earthquake was the most killing earthquake in China after the Shaanxi earthquake in 1556 and the Haiyuan earthquake in 1920 .
The quake was filmed in the disaster film Aftershock from 2010.
See also
Individual evidence
Web links
- M 7.5 - Tianjin-Hebei border region, China. United States Geological Survey
- General Views of Damage in Meizoseismal Area. (PDF; 2.8 MB) Caltech Earthquake Engineering Research Laboratory Technical Reports
- Feng Jianhua: Structural Integrity. Tangshan has risen from the ruins. However, can it withstand another major earthquake? ( Memento of May 17, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Article in Beijing Rundschau 30/2006
- Li Ying: Near Death Experiences in China - A Study of Survivors of the Tangshan Earthquake ( Memento from February 12, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Article from August 29, 2003 at china-intern.de
- Propaganda poster Man can defeat nature. Part of the online exhibition Picturing Power: Art and Propaganda in the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution - Institute for Sinology at Heidelberg University
- Zhu Chuanzhen: Seismic Activity in Tangshan and Its Surrounding Areas. (PDF; 3.62 MB) on caltech.edu
- The 30th Anniversary of the 1976 Tangshan, China Earthquake ( Memento from October 24, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) In: air-worldwide.com
Coordinates: 39 ° 34 ' N , 117 ° 59' E