The Mammoth Tangshan Earthquake of 1976 Building Damage Photo Album

Author: Compiled by China Academy of Building Research
Language: Chinese and English bilingual
Published on: 1986-01
Hardcover

On July 28th of 1976, an earthquake of magnitude 7.8 on the Richter scale hit Tangshan and Fengnan areas of China and spread to the areas of Beijing and Tianjin. The occurrence of such a high intensity and magnitude earthquake in a densely populated big city caused a great disaster unprecedented in the history of China and even very rare in that of the world. China Academy of Building Research sent researchers immediately to the earthquake-prone area, investigating the damages and other earthquake phenomenon for the study of technical problems thereby incurred. This “Photo Album” collects the most important pictures to illustrate the damage to buildings.

一、Briefing of the Tangshan Earthquake
二、Multi-storey Brick building
三、Single-storey factory buildings with reinforced concrete columns
四、Reinforced concrete inner-frame building
五、Single-storey spacious buildings
六、Single-storey spacious buildings
七、Single-storied houses in urban and rural areas
八、Ancient buildings
九、The underground buildings
十、Chimney and water tower
十一、Road and bridge
十二、Miscellaneous
十三、Reconstruction of new Tangshan