On This Day | 1976 Earthquake in China’s Tangshan Kills over 240,000 People – SCMP Archive

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According to various calculations and estimates, it caused the deaths of between 242,000 and 800,000 people.

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Today marks the 50th anniversary of the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that struck Tangshan, Hebei Province, China in 1976. Half a century later, looking back at this devastating earthquake that caused massive casualties in China, two major controversies remain unresolved.

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Communist China tried its best to conceal the consequences of the earthquake in the northeast of the country, which killed 242,000 people on July 28, 1976, according to official figures. However, according to some sources, the death toll climbed to 650,000. Even measured by the communist regime's figures, this disaster became the worst earthquake of the 20th century.

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Exactly fifty years ago, on July 28, 1976, at 3:42 a.m., a massive earthquake shook the industrial city of Tangshan in northern China. It took just 23 seconds for the modern mining and metallurgical center with a population of one million to collapse like a house of cards, burying unsuspecting sleeping people under its weight. According to official figures, 242,000 people lost their lives, but independent experts still estimate the real number o…