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Comment (What a difference a few decades makes. The earthquake in Sichuan and its massive loss of life has garnered blanket media coverage, both by Chinese and foreign reporters. China even invited foreign disaster-relief experts to help out.
Not so in 1976.
On July 28 of that year, a massive earthquake obliterated Tangshan, China, killing at least 240,000 in the area about 300 kilometres southeast of Beijing and seriously injuring hundreds of thousands of others. The U.S. Geological Survey says the real death toll was 655,000, with 799,000 injured.
"This is probably the greatest death toll from an earthquake in the last four centuries, and the second greatest in recorded history," the survey says.
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