damaged but did not fail; similarly for another dam that imperiled Tianjin and some outlying districts of Beijing. The immediate and massive response by the government resulted in the rescue of thousands of people in the first two days (after which mortality increases rapidly), while prompt attention to the problems of clean water, food, and public health avoided the mortality due to epidemic disease and starvation that often follows such disasters. Cultural references Chinese director Feng Xiaogang's 2010 drama film Aftershock gives an account of the earthquake and its effects. Footage of the incident appeared in the film Days of Fury (1979), directed by Fred Warshofsky and hosted by Vincent Price. See also List of earthquakes in China List of disasters in China by death toll List of earthquakes in 1976 Tangshan Earthquake Memorial Park Notes References Sources . . . English translation by JPL of a lecture originally published in 1976 in a special issue of the Journal of the Seismological Society of Japan (in Japanese). . . . . English translation by JPL of a lecture originally published in 1976 in a special issue of the Journal of the Seismological Society of Japan (in Japanese). . . . . . . . English translation of the Chinese report of 1986. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The "American Seismological Delegation". . .The Haicheng Earthquake Study Delegation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Further reading Qian Gang. The Great China Earthquake. Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1989. . James Palmer. Heaven Cracks, Earth Shakes: The Tangshan Earthquake and the Death of Mao's China. New York: Basic Books, 2011. (hardcover alk. paper) 9780465023493 (ebk. alk. paper). Report on The Great Tangshan Earthquake of 1976: English translation of an extensive Chinese report from 1986. External links "Integration of Public Administration and Earthquake Science: The Best Practice Case of Qinglong County" at GlobalWatch.org An isoseismal map (showing the different zones of shaking intensity) of the Tangshan earthquake can be found here. Tangshan Tangshan Earthquake, 1976 1976 Tangshan History of Beijing History of Hebei July 1976 events in Asia Tangshan 1976 disasters in China