1976 Earthquake Tangshan China 1976 - 255,000 official death toll[Estimated as high as 655,000]

[farbersa <farbersa@optonline.net>]

Hi all:

Related to Sandy Perle's news posting about the recent terrible  

earthquake/tsunami in a brief AP news story titled:

"Tsunami toll is huge, but not the deadliest event on record" there is a  

list of earthquakes since 1900 compiled by the USGS which I just reviewed:



From:

http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/eqlists/eqsmajr.html



USGS list of earthquakes worldwide since 1900 with death tolls of 1,000 or  

more:



1976 Jul 27	China, Tangshan

39.6 N 118.0 E	255,000

(official)	7.5	Estimated death toll as high as 655,000.





Stewart Farber

[203] 367-0791

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