Dear jobber-ga,
The details below are taken from the US Government?s Earthquake
Hazards Program. The figures are generally corroborated on many other
sites. The cities you mentioned were not at the epi-centre of the
earthquakes.
December 16, 1920,
China, Gansu, 35.8 N 105.7 E,
Deaths 200,000
Magnitude 8.6
Comments: Major fractures, landslides
July 27, 1976
China, Tangshan
39.6 N 118.0 E
Deaths 255,000
(official) Magnitude 7.5
Comments: Estimated death toll as high as 655,000.
It states that the data compiled from several sources
Source
http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/eqlists/eqsmajr.html
20th century Chinese disaster statistics list the 1976 earthquake
death toll as 242,000
http://www.adrc.or.jp/publications/databook/databook_20th/CHN.pdf
Additional information on the 1976 earthquake
http://history1900s.about.com/library/weekly/aa061500a.htm
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