In Tangshan under the shadow of night, everything is silent. Suddenly, a blue light pierced the night sky. Then, the sky rotated and the earth shook. Streets, railways and buildings were dislocated, deformed and collapsed in the strong vibration ... This is the "July 28" Tangshan earthquake that shocked China and foreign countries.
Within 23 seconds, a famous industrial city in North China with an annual output value of about 1% and a population of one million was razed to the ground and reduced to ruins. The biggest tragedy in history happened in Tangshan, and the whole land of North China was shaking violently. There was a loud noise from the collapse of houses in Tianjin. Australian Prime Minister Whitlam, who was visiting the city, was awakened, and there was a terrible crack in his hotel. Beijing also shook, and many houses collapsed. On the land of China, Harbin in the north, Bengbu in Anhui and Qingjiang in Jiangsu in the south, Dengkou in Inner Mongolia and Wuzhong in Ningxia in the west, Bohai Island in the east and the northeast border were all affected by the Tangshan earthquake.
The magnitude of the earthquake was MS7.8, which brought great disaster to Tangshan people: 240,000 people died; Tens of thousands of families have disintegrated; 97% of ground buildings and 55% of production equipment were destroyed; Traffic, water supply, power supply and communication were all interrupted, resulting in a direct economic loss of 3 billion yuan. At that time, there was a report in the west: "Tangshan will be erased from the map of China." After the earthquake, the CPC Central Committee and the State Council were very concerned about the people in the disaster area and immediately organized a large number of manpower and material resources to rush to the disaster area for rescue. A large number of relief materials, such as medicines, food, clothing and building materials, have been continuously transported to the disaster areas from all directions of the motherland, and patients, the elderly and children have been properly resettled quickly.
This disaster shocked earthquake, earthquake resistance and disaster relief experts all over the world, and made them more responsible. Since 1980, there have been 100 groups of earthquake, earthquake resistance and disaster relief experts from all over the world coming to Tangshan earthquake site to study and inspect, determined to learn from this painful disaster, sum up experience and study countermeasures. Make unremitting efforts for the development of earthquake science, for reducing earthquake disasters and for human happiness.
On July 28th, 1986, Tangshan Earthquake Exhibition Hall was completed and opened. Tangshan Earthquake Exhibition Hall is the first professional earthquake exhibition hall in China to collect and display earthquake data and objects, publicize and popularize earthquake science knowledge, earthquake prevention and disaster reduction knowledge, and conduct earthquake science research. A large number of charts and figures are displayed in the museum to introduce the basic situation of Tangshan earthquake; This article introduces the damage caused by the earthquake with very precious earthquake photos. These precious photos vividly show the unprecedented earthquake relief struggle in front of the audience, so that the audience can have a comprehensive understanding of the Tangshan earthquake after the visit and get education from it.
1986 On July 28th, Tangshan held a conference to commemorate the anniversary of the Tangshan earthquake 10. Xie Feng, Governor of Hebei Province, announced that the restoration of Tangshan was basically completed, and Tangshan began to enter a new stage of "10 revitalization". 1On July 28th, 976, a major earthquake turned Tangshan, an industrial city with a population of one million, into ruins. After 10 years of reconstruction, a new Tangshan rose from the ruins. 10 years, new houses180,000 square meters, and the per capita living area of the city is more than 7 square meters. 1985, the total industrial and agricultural output value reached more than 78.3 million yuan, more than double that of 10 years ago.