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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.
Even though the Han fell and initiated a period of chaos, there was not a permanent disruption of Chinese civilization. Briefly, the Sui dynasty ruled. Then in 618 the Tang dynasty emerged as one of the most glorious in Chinese history. They reinstated Confucian thought and revived and improved upon the Han style of bureaucracy. After the Hun invasions and the fall of the Han dynasty, the Chinese never had to reinvent their civilization. After the death of Ashoka, the Mauryan dynasty became financially weak and could not hold together the empire.