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Injured: At least 500,000. Damage: 85 percent of buildings destroyed. With no structures built for earthquake resistance, Tangshan was a sitting duck. This city of one million, about 68 miles (110 kilometers) east of Beijing, was nearly decimated when a magnitude 7.8 quake shook it awake in 1976.A major aftershock followed 15 hours later.ith no structures built for earthquake resistance, Tangshan was a sitting duck. This city of one million, about 68 miles (110 kilometers) east of Beijing, was nearly decimated when a magnitude 7.8 quake shook it awake in 1976. A major aftershock followed 15 hours later.
After the Haicheng earthquake of February 1975, earthquake swarms and moderate earthquakes occurred frequently in northern China at Miaodao in Shandong Province, Horinger in Inner Mongolia, Daichen (170 km southwest of Tangshan) in Hebei Province, and Taiyuan in Shanxi Province.nsufficient research on seismogenic structures of this region was the main cause of the difficulties in the assessment of seismic risk of the Tangshan region before the great earthquake of 1976. Tectonic conditions play an important role in the assessment of seismic risk.