# 50 years after the Tangshan earthquake: The ‘aftershocks’ that reshaped Chinese society

https://mins.news/en/item/13493

- BBC Chinese, 2026-07-28 13:41 UTC
- Society
- Original: https://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/articles/cx2kqgn3n3ro/trad?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss

> At 3:42am on 28 July 1976, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck Tangshan in China’s Hebei province. The disaster killed 242,000 people. Fifty years later, its “aftershocks” are portrayed as having reshaped the texture of Chinese society over half a century.