Blog Tag - Earthquakes

Here's How To Set Up Earthquake Warnings on WeChat
Last month, we brought you news of upgraded earthquake early warning systems in both QQ and WeChat. While Beijing isn't typically known as a high-...
DP Seismic Shunyi: New Study Doubles the Estimated Number of Fault Lines Under Beijing
A new study has discovered the number of fault lines under Beijing is twice the number than previously thought. The scientific paper, published in ...
38 Years Ago Today: The Tangshan Earthquake Kills 242,000, and Why Beijing Could Tremble Again
In the small hours of July 28, 1976, the second-deadliest earthquake in recorded history shook Beijingers out of their beds, as what is now known as...
In Case You Were Also Wondering: How Earthquake Prone is Beijing?
Japan’s devastating tsunami-quake-nuclear crisis may be old news by now, but the alarming number of super-tremblors that have wreaked havoc around...
First Pictures from Qinghai Quake
The first images have emerged of the aftermath of the 7.1-magnitude earthquake that rocked China’s far western province of Qinghai this morning....
Helping Haiti – Fundraising Campaign in Beijing
China is unfortunately all too familiar with the results of horrific earthquakes, but the tragedy in Haiti has overtaken even the 2008 Wenchuan...