Tangshan Earthquake Research Paper

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The Tangshan earthquake was the second deadliest earthquake on record. It began in Tangshan, China at 3:42 on July 28, 1976 and took many lives. The citizens and their families were asleep when a 7.8 magnitude earthquake began to violently shake the ground beneath them. Earthquakes in China average at around 4.7 magnitude so, this one unordinary. The earthquake was caused when two underground plates moved past one another and eventually broke from all of the built up pressure. Citizens were unable to scramble to safety in time because the novice systems failed to detect the earthquake in time. Tangshan officials relied on surveying the land and how the storm altered the surrounding environment. Because of the power of this earthquake, it caused

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