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  • Bill Joseph: wjoseph@wellesley.edu
  • Department of Political Science, Wellesley College
  • Date Created: October 5, 1996
  • Last Modified: March 2008
  • Expires: June 30, 2008

The Tangshan Earthquake July 28, 1976

Integration of Public Administration and Earthquake Science:
The Best Practice Case of Qinglong County
(Global Watch)

TANGSHAN: Earthquake, July 28, 1976, An Ominous Rumbling (TIME-Asia, Sept. 27, 1999)

The Great Tangshan Earthquake of 1976
(Huixian, Liu and Housner, George W. and Lili, Xie and Duxin, He (2002),
Technical Report: California Institute of Technology

Social Responses to the Tangshan Earthquake
(Jifeng Li, University of Delaware Natural Disaster Research Center, 1991)

1976 Tangshan Earthquake (Science Education Solutions)

The 1976 Great Tangshan Earthquake -- A Thirty Year Retrospective
(PDF) Risk Management Solutions

Chinese Propaganda Posters: Earthquake (Stefan Landsberger)

Commemoration of the 30th Anniversary of the Great Earthquake

Tangshan Earthquake: Unforgotten History (China Daily)

China Marks Tangshan Earthquake (BBC)

Tangshan Earthquake -- 30 Years' Sorrow (china.org.cn)

30th Anniversary of Tangshan Earthquake (gov.cn)

Wellesley Professor Preserves Images of Lost City