Tangshan earthquake, Wenchuan earthquake, Liaoning Haicheng earthquake, etc.

1. Tangshan Earthquake

On July 28th, 1976, Beijing time was 3: 42: 53.8.

It's 118.1 degrees east longitude and 39.6 degrees north latitude. A strong earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale suddenly occurred in Fengnan District, Tangshan City, Hebei Province, China. Twenty-three seconds later, Tangshan was razed to ruins, 656,136 of 682,267 civil buildings collapsed and were seriously damaged, 242,769 people died, 164,851 people were seriously injured and 426 were injured.

the direct economic loss is more than 3 billion yuan. The scene of the earthquake victims is extremely tragic and rare in the world. ?

Beijing, the capital of China, is shaking, and the tall beams and columns of Tiananmen Gate rattle convulsively. From Bohai Bay to Inner Mongolia and Ningxia, from the south of Heilongjiang to the north of the Yangtze River, people in this Chinese land felt unusually shaken and frightened.

A shocking alarm sounded at the Palmer Observatory in Alaska, USA. On the same day, the major news agencies in the world announced the disaster news to the whole world-Hawaii Seismological Station announced that an earthquake of magnitude 8.1 occurred in China, with its epicenter near Beijing!

the us geological survey announced that an earthquake of magnitude 8.2 occurred near Tianjin, about 1 miles southeast of Beijing, 39.6 north latitude and 118.1 east longitude.

The Royal Observatory in Hong Kong announced that an earthquake of magnitude 8 occurred in China, with the epicenter at 39.6 north latitude and 111.1 east longitude, which was very close to Tangshan.

Taiwan Province's "central weather bureau" said: An earthquake of magnitude 8 occurred in the northern part of the mainland, with its epicenter near 135km east of Beiping.

4:3 in the morning. The State Seismological Bureau of China received emergency telegrams from 1 stations, including Nanjing, Lanzhou and Kunming, among which 6 stations gave magnitude, but the data were very different from each other, some were set above magnitude 8, and some were set below magnitude 7. As for the epicenter, there is only a rough estimate of "near Beijing".

6 am. China Telecommunications Bureau reported that in contact with all parts of the country, only the telephone communication in Tangshan area was interrupted, and several calls were made, but there was no reply.

China Xinhua News Agency broadcast the following news to the whole world on July 28th, 1976: A strong earthquake occurred in Tangshan-Fengnan area in Jidong area of Hebei Province, China at 3: 42 on July 28th. Tianjin and Beijing also have strong earthquakes. According to the China Seismological Network, the earthquake was 7.5 ... A few days later, China announced the approved earthquake magnitude: 7.8 on the Richter scale.

Tangshan, an industrial city with a population of one million, has been reduced to ruins in a devastating earthquake without any warning. The book "The Shock of the Earth" published by seismological press, China, published the following figures: 242,769 people died, 164,851 were seriously injured and 544, were slightly injured. The world's worst earthquake disaster occurred in the last century ...

In the early morning of July 28th, 1976, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake devastated Tangshan, an important industrial town with a population of one million, instantly razed to the ground, and more than 24, fresh lives were buried in the rubble.

2. Wenchuan Earthquake

Time and location

5.12 The Wenchuan Earthquake in Sichuan Province was an earthquake of magnitude 8. at 14: 28: 4 on May 12th, 28 (Monday, the eighth day of April in the Year of the Rat in the fifth lunar month).

The epicenter was located at the junction of Yingxiu Town and Xuankou Town in Wenchuan County, Sichuan Province (2.5km due west of Yuzixi Great Wall (China Great Wall World Heritage) and at the foot of Lotus Heart Mountain in Niumian Valley), with the east longitude of 13 42' and the north latitude of 31 1' (the US Geological Survey recognized the Wenchuan earthquake as 3.986 ゜ 26.25' 214).

3. Haicheng earthquake in Liaoning

On February 4, 1975, an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.3 occurred in Haicheng. The earthquake zone covers an area of 76 square kilometers. The earthquake occurred in a densely populated and industrially developed area, and it was the largest earthquake in the history of this area.

due to the earthquake prediction made by China's earthquake department, the local government took effective earthquake prevention measures in time, which greatly reduced the earthquake disaster. Except for the damage and loss of buildings and other engineering structures to varying degrees, most people evacuated their houses during the earthquake, and the casualties were greatly reduced.

Extended information:

Domestic aid for Wenchuan Earthquake

The national * * * received donations from all walks of life at home and abroad (as of 12: on September 25th, 28), totaling 59.48 billion yuan, and the actual amount received was 59.48 billion yuan, and a total of 26.88 billion yuan has been allocated to the disaster-stricken areas.

earthquake donation

The donation area is 21 million yuan from State Grid, 11 million yuan from Li Ka-shing, the richest Chinese, 11 million yuan from the national securities and futures industry, 11 million yuan from Rongcheng Steel, 1 million yuan from Formosa Plastics Group, 1 million yuan from Henderson Land Lee Shau Kee, 13 million yuan from China Petroleum, 1 million yuan from Jiaduobao and 1 million yuan from Chen cursor.

In less than 24 hours, the first disaster relief team from Hong Kong arrived in Sichuan. In less than 48 hours, relief workers have been assisting in the rescue in Beichuan ... One year after the earthquake, the Hong Kong Legislative Council allocated 9 billion Hong Kong dollars and private donations reached 13 billion Hong Kong dollars. According to a poll conducted by the Democratic Alliance for Betterment of Hong Kong (DAB), 95% of Hong Kong people donated money for the Sichuan earthquake.

The General Staff Department immediately ordered the relevant troops to carry out earthquake relief work quickly. The General Staff Department instructed the relevant earthquake relief troops that emergency disasters and related situations can be reported directly to the headquarters in Beijing to reduce the command link.

Chengdu Military Region quickly dispatched three helicopters to Wenchuan for emergency rescue. Of the 3 officers and men sent by the Sichuan Military Region, the Chengdu Military Region has sent 6,1 rescuers to all directions in the disaster area. Many troops are on their way.

A first-line command post led by a deputy commander from Chengdu Military Region entered Dujiangyan, but it was blocked by road damage. The relevant troops launched an emergency rescue in Dujiangyan.

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