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Valued exposure: Quake

An abandoned railway coach in the area of Tangshan in China

An railway coach lies abandoned in the area of Tangshan in China following a large earthquake which devastated the industrial town on 28 July 1976 .

Officially the Chinese government estimated between 240,000 and 250,000 people died in the Tangshan earthquake, though some believe the figure is more like 750,000.

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