Dicing with danger: The crisis points

China has the unfortunate distinction of of being the location of some of Southeast Asia's worst natural disasters.

Throughout the 20th century, earthquakes killed more than half a million people in the country. About half of those victims died in a single event, the 1976 earthquake in Tangshan, 150 kilometres east of Beijing, that killed over 240,000.

It is believed 830,000 lives were lost in an earthquake in Shaanxi Province in 1556, the worst in ...

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