Earthquake — China: Ne: Tangshan

When

27 Jul 1976

Kind

Earthquake

Magnitude

7.5

Where

China

Coordinates

39.57° N, 117.98° E

Deaths

242769

Injuries

799000

Damage musd

5600

Intensity mmi

11

Depth km

23

Mw 7.6 earthquake in Hebei, China

The 1976 Tangshan earthquake occurred at 19:42:55 UTC on 27 July. The maximum intensity of the Mw 7.6 earthquake around Tangshan, Hebei, China, was XI (Extreme) on the Mercalli scale. In minutes, 85 percent of the buildings in Tangshan collapsed or were rendered unusable, all services failed, and most of the highway and railway bridges collapsed or were seriously damaged.

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• NCEI significant earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptionsNOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPublic domainSource page
• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “The Tangshan earthquake flattens Tangshan, China, killing 242,769 people, and injuring 164,851”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Bei einem Erdbeben im chinesischen Tangshan kommen nach offiziellen Angaben etwa 242.000 Menschen ums Leben; Schätzungen gehen aber von bis zu 650.000 Toten aus”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “tremblement de terre en Chine (Tangshan) de magnitude 8.0 plus ou moins 0.2, provoquant”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Крупное землетрясение магнитудой 7,8 в китайском городе Таншань”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en China se registra un devastador terremoto de 7,6 en la ciudad de Tangshan que deja un saldo de entre 242 000 y 655 000 muertos”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “中国で唐山地震。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page