The Real China Syndrome: Earthquake Prediction and Engineering in the People's Republic

Author: Meredith, Dennis

Published in: Engineering and Science, Volume 43, Number 1, 1979, pp. 17-22

Part of: Engineering and Science, Volume 43:1, September-October, 1979

Item Category: Feature Articles

Persistent URL: https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechES:43.1.china_syndrome

Abstract

A review of methods, successes, and failures of earthquake prediction and engineering in China -- written by Dennis Meredith, director of Caltech's News Bureau, and illustrated with pictures of some of the damage from the 1976 Tangshan earthquake.

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