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This is a list of earthquakes in 1978. Only earthquakes of magnitude 6 or above are included, unless they result in damage and/or casualties, or are notable for some other reason. Events in remote areas will not be listed but included in statistics and maps.
Earthquakes with a magnitude 4.5 and over (1900–2015). The yellow star is the 2008 Sichuan earthquake. This is a list of earthquakes in China, part of the series of lists of disasters in China. Earthquakes in the loess plateau where residents lived in yaodong caves tended to have big casualties, including the 1303 Hongdong and 1920 Haiyuan ...
Tianjin soup kitchen fire: 2,000, ? [10] The gate of the soup kitchen was always locked to prevent hunger from causing social unrest, which prevented evacuation in case of fire. 18 February 1977, Khorgas, Xinjiang: 61st Regiment Farm fire: 694, 161 [11] Most deaths were the troops' children.
An earthquake that killed more than 120 people in China this week was the country's deadliest in nearly a decade. Earthquakes happen most frequently in western China on the Tibetan Plateau or its ...
In 1976, a huge earthquake destroyed the city of Tangshan, less than 200km (124 miles) south of Beijing. More than 240,000 people were killed, making it the second deadliest earthquake in the 20th ...
The death toll was the highest from an earthquake in China in nine years. Experts blamed the high toll on several factors, including the shallow depth of the quake and the lower quality ...
Events in the year 1978 in the People's Republic of China. Incumbents. Paramount leader - Hua Guofeng → Deng Xiaoping;
Earthquake in Tabas kills around 25,000 people; The Camp David Accords are signed; The 1978 FIFA World Cup is held in Argentina; Aldo Moro is kidnapped and murdered by the Red Brigades; Air India Flight 855 crashes off the coast of Bandra, killing all passengers and crew aboard; The Saur Revolution marks the end of power of the Barakzai dynasty ...