Hua Guofeng27 July 1976
255,000 perish during an earthquake
China · Government / Chinese Communist Party. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
255,000 perish during an earthquake
The earthquake that strikes Sichuan Province has a strength of 7.9 on the Richter scale, causing landslides and destroying thousands of buildings
According to the Chinese Government more than 40,000 people have been killed and 247,645 have been injured in last weeks devastating earthquake near the city of Dujiangyan in Sichuan Province
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