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View of devastation after 1976 earthquake in Tangshan, China.

View of devastation after 1976 earthquake in Tangshan, China.
View of devastation after 1976 earthquake in Tangshan, China.
View of devastation after 1976 earthquake in Tangshan, China.
View of devastation after 1976 earthquake in Tangshan, China.
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View of devastation after 1976 earthquake in Tangshan, China.
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Caption from Oceanus magazine, Vol. 48, No. 1, pg. 10:
Some 230,000 people were killed in the Jan. 12, 2010, earthquake that struck Haiti (left). More than 240,000 died in a 1976 earthquake in Tangshan, China, (right) which inspired Jian Lin (below) to study earthquakes. Both cases demonstrated that poorly constructed buildings are the primary cause of deaths in earthquakes.
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