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November 27, 2005

Major earthquake hits JiangXi

The province of JiangXi (??) experienced its biggest earthquake since 1949 with a magnitude of 5.7 on the Richter scale. At least 16 persons were killed and more than 370 injured. 130,000 houses have been damaged and 420,000 have been evacuated to safer place in fear of aftershocks.
This earthquake was quite violent but, fortunately not as deadly as previous earthques. In July 1976, Tangshan (??) in the East of Beijing was severely hit and 242,000 persons died and 164,000 injured. The city was erased from the map in just a few seconds!

Links
TangShan earthquake - 28 of July, 1976
China Daily - 2005 11 26

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