California: California Institute of Technology, Earthquake Engineering Research Laboratory, 2002. — 450 p.
On July 28, 1976, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake devastated the city of Tangshan, China. Of the 1.5 million people living in the affected area, about 242,000 died and 164,000 were severely injured and most of the surviving inhabitants lost their homes because of collapse. This earthquake caused one of the greatest natural disasters in human history.
The great structural, economic, and social impacts of this earthquake made it obligatory to record the seismic effects and also the geological and seismological setting of the earthquake. An effort of six years was initiated under the leadership of Professor Huixian Liu, the former director of the Institute of Engineering Mechanics (IEM), State Seismological Bureau of China (former Institute of Engineering Mechanics, Academia Sinica). This report, "Damage in the Great Tangshan Earthquake" was published in four volumes.
Volume IV contains about seven hundred photographs of various typical damages.
General views of damage in meizoseismal area.
Ground failure.
Civil buildings.
Ancient buildings.
Factory buildings.
Industrial structures and facilities.
Railway and highway engineering.
Hydraulic engineering and engineering for water transportation.
