Earthquake strikes at China's energy centers. [Tangshan, July 1976]
The earthquake that struck Hopei province in China on July 28, 1976 must have caused damage that will have wide repercussions for a long time. It came at the beginning of a new Five-Year Plan and struck one of the country's key industrial centers, Tangshan, a city of one million people on the western edge of the 2275 km/sup 2/ Kailvan coalfield. In reveiwing statistics on mining operations in that area, it is known that, after the stagnation of the early 1960s, the output had been growing by an average of more than one million tons each year since 1966. In 1971 a decision was made to double the designed capacity in five years, and a variety of technical innovations and organizational improvements has been undertaken in all Kailvan mines. Damage was reported heavy in Tientsin, China's third largest city, a major power generation center and the site of a new petrochemical complex. Takang, one of China's giant oil fields, producing currently about five percent of the country's crude oil, is located in the Tientsin municipality on the shores of Po Hai. Chinwangtao, some 120 km from the epicenter, is an important oil terminal for the shipments of Taching crude oil and the starting point of the final section of the Taching-Peking pipeline, which supplies the capital's huge Tungfanghung petrochemical complex. Damage is not known to this pipeline or to the extensive high-voltage grid in the area. (MCW)
- Research Organization:
- Univ. of Manitoba, Winnipeg
- OSTI ID:
- 7313510
- Journal Information:
- Energy Int.; (United States), Vol. 13:12
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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