Open AccessEarthquakes and earthquake engineering in China
Author(s) -
Yuan Fang
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
bulletin of the new zealand society for earthquake engineering/nzsee quarterly bulletin
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.917
H-Index - 36
eISSN - 2324-1543
pISSN - 1174-9857
DOI - 10.5459/bnzsee.20.4.275-280
Subject(s) - china , earthquake casualty estimation , earthquake engineering , urban seismic risk , government (linguistics) , seismology , earthquake scenario , forensic engineering , engineering , geology , political science , seismic hazard , law , linguistics , philosophy
China is one of the most earthquake-prone countries in the world and has suffered many disasters. During the last twenty years, especially since the Tangshan earthquake of July 1976 which killed 242,000 people and disabled almost 200,000 people, the Chinese government and the whole society have paid more attention to and made a huge effort to deal with earthquakes. Earthquake engineering became an essential project in the whole country and much more progress has been made since then. In this paper, some brief information about Chinese earthquakes and earthquake engineering is given. It is a simple introduction only, to give a general understanding of China's earthquake problems.