Northern China grapples with seismic risk
AUG 07, 2006
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.020328
Science : Last week, ceremonies marked the 30th anniversary of the deadliest earthquake in 400 years: the Tangshan earthquake, which killed at least 244,000 people in China’s Hebei Province. But as the 1976 cataclysm fades into history, a scientific puzzle endures: The magnitude-7.5 temblor struck along a fault that no one knew existed.
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