Abstracts of articles on Chinese earthquakes and related studies

Several hundred destructive earthquakes have occurred in China during the past 3,000 years of recorded history. For example, nearly one million people were killed by the Shensi earthquake of 1556. After the 1966 Xingtai earthquake, extensive programs of earthquake research were initiated in China and are now being carried out by some 10,000 workers. The first successful prediction of a major earthquake was made by Chinese scientists in 1975; precautionary measures were taken so that many lives were saved in the magnitude 7.3 Haicheng earthquake on February 4, 1975.

In this report, we have attempted to compile, as completely as possible, abstracts of articles on Chinese earthquakes and related studies. It is an updated version of a major section of an earlier report "Earthquake and China" compiled by W.H.K. Lee in 1974. We hope this report will extend the usefulness of the previous one which was intended to be a guide to readers interestedin Chinese earthquakes.