As a country stricken by 2 of top 10 world 's most fatal earthquakes before the creation of CEA , China 's first seismic monitoring stations were set up under the Chinese Academy of Sciences . A national '' Office of Earthquake Matters '' ( ) was created under joint administration of the '' National Science and Technology Commission '' ( ) and Chinese Academy of Sciences after the 1966 Xingtai earthquake . A '' Central Task Force of Earthquakes '' ( ) under the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China was created the day after a M7 .4 earthquake struck Bohai Bay on July 18 , 1969
1966 Xingtai earthquake
1966 Xingtai earthquake
China Earthquake Administration