Great Tangshan Earthquake, July 1976

The Tangshan Earthquake, July 28, 1976

A film of my return to Tangshan in July 2006, nearly 35 years after my first visit in 1972. The occasion was an exhibition of photographs that I had taken of the city just a few years before the Great Earthquake.

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)

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)