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	China marks 30th anniversary of Tangshan earthquake
		Tangshan, Hebei -- More than 1,000 people took part in commemoration activities Friday morning in Tangshan, northern Hebei Province, to mark the 30th anniversary of the terrible earthquake which killed more than 240,000 people there.
		Zhang He, secretary of the CPC Tangshan City Committee, said that citizens have gradually stepped out of the shadow of the quake and a new Tangshan with a robust economy, a stable society and happy citizens has been born from the ruins and debris.
		An earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale razed Tangshan, 200 kilometers east of Beijing, early in the morning of July 28, 1976, leaving 242,769 people dead and 164,851 critically injured.
	www.chinadaily.com.cn /china/2006-07/28/content_652354.htm (484 words)

	EARTHQUAKES IN CHINA - by Dr. George Pararas-Carayannis
		The worse natural disaster in recorded history, at least in terms of lives lost, was caused by an earthquake in Hausien in the Shensi Province of China in 1556.
		The earthquake devastated 98 counties and eight provinces of Central China.
		Tangshan, a thriving industrial city with one million inhabitants, is located only about 95 miles east, and slightly south, of Beijing.
	www.drgeorgepc.com /EarthquakesChina.html (677 words)

	SCMP.com - Hong Kong's leading english news channel - China at 50 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The death toll in Tangshan, an otherwise undistinguished mining town about 50 kilometres north of Tianjin in Hebei province, was so huge that in terms of lives lost, it ranks among the gravest natural disasters in human history.
		Tangshan registered 8.2 on the Richter scale, among the most severe ever recorded, and registered XI, close to the limit of the Mercalli intensity scale when even iron railways are bent.
		The Tangshan earthquake was so great that shocks were felt in Beijing where people slept outdoors after a number of roofs collapsed.
	special.scmp.com /chinaat50/Article/Fulltext_asp_ArticleID-19990928191042300.html (2051 words)

	Earthquake Newspaper Articles Archive
		Earthquakes are some of the most destructive and life threatening natural disasters, from which no country in the world is safe.
		Earthquakes are often the cause of tsunamis, which can be every bit as destructive as the earthquake itself.
		This was the case in late 2004, when an underwater earthquake that registered 9.0 on the Richter scale caused a tsunami that killed nearly 160,000 people in Sumatra, Indonesia.
	www.earthquakearchive.com (333 words)

	USATODAY.com - Tsunami refreshes painful memory in China (Site not responding. Last check: )
		For many in Tangshan, the TV images of loss and suffering across southern Asia recall July 28, 1976, when this city was destroyed by one of the deadliest earthquakes in recorded history.
		The Tangshan earthquake took place in an insular, backward China before the news media had the ability to instantaneously bring images of faraway suffering to a global audience.
		The Tangshan, China, earthquake in 1976 is the second-deadliest known earthquake.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2005-01-16-tangshan-quake_x.htm?csp=34 (1621 words)

	Bam Earthquake Prediction & Space Technology
		The predicted earthquake was the magnitude 7.0 Guyuan (36.5 N, 106.3 E), Ningxia province earthquake on Oct. 25, 1622.
		Because the earthquake was the only one bigger than 7 to the northwest of Hangzhou for 333 days from May 31, 1990 to Apr. 28, 1991, He believed that there must be a strong relationship between the cloud and the earthquake.
		The earthquake data are from the USGS (@12), and the average latitude and longitude absolute errors between the earthquake data and the geoeruption data are 0.10° and 0.32°, respectively.
	www.gisdevelopment.net /proceedings/tehran/p_session2/bampf.htm (5479 words)

	SpiNet \| 1976 Tangshan Earthquake
		This quake's destruction was worsened by the fact that it struck in the middle of the night.
		Tangshan lies on a block of continental crust bounded by major faults.
		The area of northern china hit by the Tangshan earthquake is recognized as being particularly prone to the westward movement of the Pacific plate.
	www.scieds.com /spinet/historical/china.html (542 words)

	Tao Of Defiance » The 30th Anniversary of one of Communism’s forgotten tragedies - Tangshan earthquake.
		Today is the 30th anniversary of the 20th century’s deadliest earthquake, which struck the city of Tangshan, China in the dead of night, with the power of 400 atomic bombs.
		Bizarrely, the handling of the same earthquake in Qinglong County, just 115 km from Tangshan, is hailed by the UN as a case of “public administration best practice”.
		The survivors of the Tangshan quake are living in tents and are expected to be moved to winter shelters, the New China news agency has reported.
	www.taoofdefiance.com /2006/07/28/the-30th-anniversary-of-one-of-communisms-forgotten-tragedies-tangshan-earthquake (2283 words)

	Caltech Earthquake Engineering Research Laboratory Technical Reports - The Great Tangshan Earthquake of 1976
		A magnitude 7.8 earthquake was generated by a fault that passed through the city and caused 85% of the buildings to collapse or to be so seriously damaged as to be unusable, and the death toll was enormous.
		The earthquake caused the failures of the electric power system, the water supply system, the sewer system, the telephone and telegraph systems, and radio communications; and the large coal mines and the industries dependent on coal were devastated.
		The Tangshan disaster met all these requirements and the result was the greatest earthquake disaster in the history of the world.
	caltecheerl.library.caltech.edu /353 (340 words)

	Earthquake Prediction Information
		Earthquake magnitude and timing are controlled by the size of a fault segment, the stiffness of the rocks, and the amount of accumulated stress.
		One well-known successful earthquake prediction was for the Haicheng, China earthquake of 1975, when an evacuation warning was issued the day before a M 7.3 earthquake.
		Earthquake prediction is a popular pastime for psychics and pseudo-scientists, and extravagant claims of past success are common.
	www.geophys.washington.edu /SEIS/PNSN/INFO_GENERAL/eq_prediction.html (1204 words)

	Confirming a Chinese earthquake prediction
		While the Haicheng earthquake was preceded by foreshocks, for instance, the later Tangshan earthquake was not.
		Regardless of the significance of the Haicheng earthquake prediction in the long run, the event was valuable in that it "showed the importance of public education," Chen says.
		According to the paper's authors, efforts to educate the public prior to the earthquake included the distribution of brochures, which explained earthquake concepts and described how to make amateur observations of precursory events that could help officials in formulating their predictions.
	www.geotimes.org /june06/WebExtra062606.html (866 words)

	President Hu visits city rebuilt on earthquake ruins
		TANGSHAN, July 30 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President and General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Hu Jintao visited Tangshan, a city rebuilt on the ruins of a catastrophic earthquake30 years ago in Hebei Province, north China on July 28-29.
		He was pleased to see those who were injured in the earthquake are well taken care of and the new generation of Tangshan is growing happily.
		The president urged officials of Tangshan City and Hebei Province to earnestly carry out the central government's policy of macroeconomic regulation, make active adjustment of the local economic structure and investment mix, curb the excessive growth in fixed asset investment, and achieve high-quality and efficient economic growth.
	au.chineseembassy.org /eng/xw/t265513.htm (645 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Asia-Pacific \| China marks Tangshan earthquake
		The earthquake occurred directly under Tangshan at a depth of 8km (5 miles).
		"The great Tangshan earthquake was one of the most devastating disasters the world has known, but the heroism of the Tangshan people refused to die," Tangshan Communist Party leader Zhang He said at a memorial service in the city.
		Tangshan has now been completely rebuilt and is home to steel and mining industries.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/low/asia-pacific/5221296.stm (497 words)

	TIMEasia.com \| Visions of China: Tangshan \| 9/27/99
		Like most of Tangshan, Li was sound asleep on July 28, 1976, when an earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale struck, claiming more than 240,000 lives.
		Tangshan's calamity was widely viewed as an omen that Mao's days were numbered.
		"An earthquake is like a vaccination," assured the head of the Tangshan Earthquake Bureau, quoted by a newspaper in 1995, as locals worried over rumors of Deng Xiaoping's imminent death.
	www.time.com /time/asia/magazine/99/0927/tangshan.html (604 words)

	Texas Earthquakes - UTIG
		The second biggest earthquake known, with a magnitude of 9.2, occurred in Alaska on 27 March 1964; it had a rupture length of 800 km, and caused as much as 11 meters of uplift.
		Suppose a hypothetical earthquake ruptures the entire 100 km thickness of the rigid tectonic plates, and suppose this rupture extends along a fault with length 1000 km with an average slip of 10 meters.
		Earthquakes produce waves that travel through the Earths's interior and which are recorded by seismographs, regardless of whether the quake occurs underwater or under land.
	www.ig.utexas.edu /research/projects/eq/faq/world.htm (1279 words)

	BREITBART.COM - Survivors mourn as China marks 30th anniversary of Tangshan quake
		China this week marks the 30th anniversary of the great Tangshan earthquake that killed 240,000 people, with survivors still in mourning and the government focusing on the triumph of rebuilding.
		The quake, the most deadly of the 20th century, measured 7.8 on the Richter scale and shook the northern industrial city of Tangshan to its core for 15 seconds at 3:42 on the morning of July 28, 1976.
		Wang said that the changes that have taken place in Tangshan since the earthquake were "unthinkable" 30 years ago, but still China's booming economic development and modernization drive had not replaced the pain of the quake.
	www.breitbart.com /?id=060726015434.emtr1gsi&show_article=1&cat=sci (799 words)

	Why commemorate the Tangshan earthquake?
		At the time of the Tangshan earthquake, there was probably not a single news reporter on site who had undergone rigorous training and who had international impartial recognition; no professional western news organization was on the scene.
		Another person who arrived in Tangshan after the disaster wrote that among the ruined buildings stretching off to the horizon were multitudes of white objects glittering in the fierce summer sun.
		In Tangshan, which had undergone the throes of the Cultural Revolution, and which was the site of repeated military clashes and disasters, there was no looting or rioting post-earthquake.
	www.danwei.org /trends_and_buzz/why_commemorate_the_tangshan_e.php (2458 words)

	30 years after Tangshan quake, China grieves, celebrates heroism
		China has marked the 30th anniversary of the Tangshan earthquake that claimed over 240,000 lives with residents still in deep mourning and authorities hailing the rebuilding of the city as a miracle.
		"The great Tangshan earthquake was one of the most devastating disasters the world has known, but the heroism of the Tangshan people refused to die," Tangshan Communist Party boss Zhang He said Friday at a memorial service in the city.
		The earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale, destroyed over 90 percent of the buildings in the northern Chinese coal mining city, striking at 3:42 in the morning of July 28, 1976 and shaking the region for 15 seconds.
	www.turkishpress.com /news.asp?id=135281 (761 words)

	30th anniversary of Tangshan earthquake_English_SINA.com
		Tangshan was said to have been erased from the face of the Earth after an earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale flattened the centry-old industrial base in 1976.
		Survivors of the mammoth Tangshan earthquake that claimed 240,000 lives 30 years ago are trying to find the people who rescued and helped them.
		Tangshan, which was leveled by an earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale in
	english.sina.com /z/060728tangshan/index.shtml (706 words)

	China marks 30th anniversary of Tangshan earthquake
		More than 1,000 people took part in commemoration activities Friday morning in Tangshan, northern Hebei Province, to mark the 30th anniversary of the terrible earthquake which killed more than 240,000 people there.
		Friday people from all walks of life headed by BaiKeming, secretary of the Hebei Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), gathered at a square in downtown Tangshan to lay flowers at the monument to citizens and rescuers who died in the tragedy.
		An earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale razed Tangshan, 200 kilometers east of Beijing, early in the morning of July 28, 1976, leaving 242,769 people dead and 164,851 critically injured.
	english.gov.cn /2006-07/28/content_349168.htm (443 words)

	AsiaMedia :: "I am only a writer."
		Tangshan Alarming Record is based on interviews with seismologists from Tangshan and Beijing who predicted the likelihood of a huge earthquake.
		To prevent a repeat of the Tangshan catastrophe, Mr Zhang, who lost two family members in the disaster, said the mainland public should be informed of earthquake signs and educated in rescue methods.
		But the Tangshan earthquake was not a graceful page in Chinese earthquake history," he said.
	www.asiamedia.ucla.edu /article.asp?parentid=49804 (707 words)

	Earthquake Lights (EQLs)
		Callisthenes (not Thucydides as is commonly reported), who wrote of an earthquake of 373 BC that "[a]mong the many prodigies by which the destruction of the two cities, Helice and Buris, was foretold, especially notable were both the immense columns of fire and the Delos earthquake"
		And the Tangshan earthquake in China on 28th July 1976 was accompanied by a "colorful, flashing light display [that] was seen in the sky 200 miles away"
		TUVPO's aim was to investigate the possiblity of using earthquake lights to predict upcoming earthquakes, hence (perhaps indirectly) providing an early warning mechanism.
	inamidst.com /lights/earthquake (787 words)

	ScienceDaily: Tsunami Articles
		The Tangshan earthquake of July 28, 1976 is one of the largest earthquakes in loss of life to hit the modern world.
		The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, known by the scientific community as the Sumatra-Andaman earthquake, was an undersea earthquake that occurred at 00:58:53 UTC (07:58:53 local time) on December 26,...
		Earthquakes are accordingly measured with a seismometer, commonly known as a...
	www.sciencedaily.com /articles/earth_climate/tsunamis (592 words)

	Great Tangshan Earthquake: UN Global Programme and UNEPPA Study of a Case of Practical Integration of Disaster Science ...
		When the magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck, he was able to dress quickly, awaken his relatives and flee from the house.
		In the twenty years since the Great Tangshan Earthquake, the Chinese have strengthened their capacity to mitigate earthquake disasters from the perspectives of both science and public administration.
		On this twentieth anniversary of the Great Tangshan Earthquake, we look forward to the day when communities will be able to reduce loss of lives from natural disasters because of the lessons learned from Qinglong County.
	www.globalwatch.org /ungp/qinglong.htm (1393 words)

	Fujita Research Report - Earthquake Prediction
		The Tangshan earthquake occurred in the Hebei Province of China at 0342hrs on 28 July 1976.
		Of particular interest is the pumping record from the Tangshan mine, which has kept records since 1923, and since that time has shown a generally stable signal with no seasonal fluctuation (probably due to the deep nature of the mine).
		The changes observed in volume of ground water prior to earthquakes prompted researchers at the University of Tokyo (5) to consider the possibility that the chemical composition of ground water might also be affected by seismic events.
	www.fujitaresearch.com /reports/earthquakes.html (3303 words)

	The Epoch Times \| Thirtieth Anniversary of Tangshan Earthquake
		Tangshan residents offered flower baskets and wine etc in commemoration of loved ones, friends and fellow compatriots who perished in the earthquake.
		Mr and Mrs Guo are old residents of Tangshan city and survivors of the earthquake.
		On July 28, Tangshan city residents and tourists present flowers at the memorial wall in commemoration of loved ones who perished in the earthquake 30 years ago.
	en.epochtimes.com /news/6-7-31/44432.html (201 words)

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