This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_Tangshan_earthquake 00:01:30 1 The earthquakes 00:04:51 2 Damage 00:06:52 2.1 Intensity XI and X zone 00:08:33 2.2 Intensity IX and VIII zone 00:09:58 2.3 Intensity VII zone 00:11:20 2.4 Coal mines 00:12:57 2.5 Railways 00:17:21 3 Death toll 00:17:41 3.1 Early reports 00:21:49 3.2 Official figures 00:23:11 4 Political aspects 00:25:50 5 Geology 00:29:41 6 Question of prediction 00:36:59 7 Comparison 00:40:58 8 Cultural references 00:41:18 9 See also 00:42:00 10 Notes 00:42:09 11 Sources 00:42:19 12 Further reading 00:43:32 13 External links Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago. Learning by listening is a great way to: - increases imagination and understanding - improves your listening skills - improves your own spoken accent - learn while on the move - reduce eye strain Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone. Listen on Google Assistant through Extra Audio: https://assistant.google.com/services/invoke/uid/0000001a130b3f91 Other Wikipedia audio articles at: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=wikipedia+tts Upload your own Wikipedia articles through: https://github.com/nodef/wikipedia-tts Speaking Rate: 0.7765090804865853 Voice name: en-US-Wavenet-F "I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think." - Socrates SUMMARY ======= The 1976 Tangshan earthquake, also known as Great Tangshan earthquake, was a natural disaster resulting from a magnitude 7.6 earthquake that hit the region around Tangshan, Hebei, People's Republic of China on July 28, 1976, at 3:42 in the morning. In minutes the city of Tangshan, an industrial city with approximately one million inhabitants, ceased to exist. Eighty-five percent of the buildings in the city collapsed or were unusable, all services failed, and most of the highway and railway bridges collapsed or were seriously damaged. At least 242,000 people died (some have said three times that), making this the third (or possibly second) deadliest earthquake in recorded history.Tangshan was the most notable of several disasters in 1976, which in Chinese tradition might signal that the government had lost political legitimacy. The Tangshan earthquake also came without warning, undermining a key tenet of Maoist ideology, that earthquakes could be predicted. Nonetheless, the government's response showed that it was prepared and competent to quickly provide relief.