Talk:1976 Tangshan earthquake

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[edit] Earthquake prediction

On searching around for information about this disaster it would seem that it is of quite significance with regard to the prediction of earthquakes. Knowing nothing about this I'll have to pass that on to others here – hopefully a great article could be made of this. violet/riga (t) 23:29, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Name

If its really known as the "Great Tangshan earthquake" (as the first sentence says), why isn't that the name of the article?

I don't think it really matters that much, the "great" comes from the chinese translation of da4 though i think its the only major earthquake to occur in the tangshan area so leaving the title as is is fine --Sasquatch 03:29, Jan 30, 2005 (UTC)

I think just because one seismology text abbreviates it to GTE for reasons of brevity it is pushing it a bit to claim that it is known as the GTE. It looks silly. Cripipper (talk) 12:55, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] FAC

I wonder if this article is good enough for WP:FAC? It needs some references, but I think deals with the subject reasonably well. Perhaps WP:PR would be a better place first? -- ALoan (Talk) 13:09, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)

It is well-written, but pretty weak on citations. Also, there is a little bit of awkwardness in the section about earthquake prediction... it almost looks like the remnant of some past NPOV problems. Anyway, agree that with some aggressive sourcing, this could be a great article. --Jaysweet 21:18, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the comments, but standards have improved so much in 18 months that I doubt that it would stand much of a chance as it stands without a significant amount of work. -- ALoan (Talk) 00:07, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

does anyone know if I could get a pizza around here? -somone you don't know

[edit] Early warnings and predictions - no refs

Given that lots of people are going to be reading this right now, I think we should consider either deleting the 1st para of this section, or trying hard to track down some references quickly. What do others think? --  Chzz  ►  19:08, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Quote of Jiang Qing

The quote of Jiang Qing in regard to the renunciation of Deng conflicts with the quote on the Chinese wikipedia page, according to which the same quote is of Yao Wenyuan instead of Jiang Qing. Chevrox (talk) 02:08, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

They seem totally out of place to me. How often do you see political slogan quoted like such on wikipedia? I can't recall any examples, even in political heavy articles. This article is about an earthquake. Why is so much emphasis applied to the political aspect?
Basically, the earthquake occured in very politically sensitive time, when China was going through a power transition. It is important to note that the authorities were more focused on political struggle than earthquake relief. It also serves as a great contrast to the on-going disaster relief operations of the Sichuan earthquake.

[edit] Dubious

"As the whole city was demolished, it would be safe to say the actual death toll is much higher."

That the whole city is demolished does not mean that all, or even half, of the 1.6 million would have died. This seems like amateur statistics and couch guesstimation to me. --PalaceGuard008 (Talk) 14:50, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

Let me try to change that. Colipon+(T) 06:00, 18 May 2008 (UTC)