BI Unit 4 A night the earth didn't sleep 集安一中 张晓弘 Ji'an No. 1 Senior High School Joanne Zhang

Para. I Strange things —— northeast Hebei The Well 3 days——rose & fell had deep cracks a smelly gas came The farmyard chickens pigs——too...to... mice ran out of fish jumped out of

The sky 3:00am/July 28, 1976 bright lights soundof planes Strange things —— northeast Hebei The city water pipes cracked/burst 1,000,000 ————————— asleep as usual thought little of

Para. II Description of the Quake 3:42 am everything-shake it seemed as if ——at an end 11km below—— greatest / 20th century felt in Beijing 1/3 felt >200km away

the crack———cut across houses\roads\canals steam———— burst from hard hills of rock———— rivers of dirt (15s)a large city————in ruins suffering of ————extreme 8km long 30m wide 2/3 died/ injured thousands of killed children without parents no. reached > 400,000

Para. III Damage & anoter EQ natural?! Everywhere nearly everything destroyed hospitals, factories & buildings, homes bricks two dams ， most bridges railway tracks cows pigs & chickens wells people

all hospitals 75% of factories & buildings GONE 90% of homes bricks——covered like red leaves ——no wind/blow away 2 dams & bridges ——fell/not safe for railway tracks——useless pieces of

10s of 1000s of ——never give half a million & ——dead millions of sand —filled— well ×water people ———— shocked

Another Earthquake then, later that afternoon as strong as 1st ———shook Tangshan rescue workers & Dr. more buildings water trapped under fell food hard electricity HOW LONG —— LAST

Para. IV All hope was not lost. ——sent 150,000 soldiers the army——100s of 1000s of help ——organized teams dig out bury

the result of the rescue 10,000 miners —— be rescued from workers —— built shelters for/destroyed fresh water —— taken to...by began to breathe