[CCP committee meeting note]

Qinglong County Administrators Issue Early Warning Four Days Before Earthquake

Meeting of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Committee of Qinglong County

            Attending Members: Zhang Pingyi, Yu Shen, Chen Yongfu

                               Ma Gang

 

            Other Attendee:   Sun You

 

            Chairperson:       Zhang Pingyi

 

            Meeting date/time: July 24th, 1976; 8:30 PM

 

            Minutes by:       Chai Wanhui

 

            Meeting place:    Small Conference Room at the County Committee

 

            Meeting Notes:

 

                 Wang Chunqing, of the Science Committee, reports on

            the main points of the earthquake conference.

 

                 There may be, from July 22 to August 5, a magnitude 5

            earthquake, location is the Beijing-Tianjin-Tangshan-Bohai-

            Zhangjiakou region; from the second half of this year to the

            beginning of next year, a magnitude 8-9 earthquake may occur.

 

                 Our County has a total of 16 monitoring sites, of which

            6 sites are equipped with instruments.

 

                 The Earthquake Office should write up information on

            earthquakes and send it to the broadcasting station for

            dissemination. The Office should emphasize that there may

            soon be an earthquake, and that its effects can be mitigated.

 

                 Pay attention to the following tasks: auditoriums, movie

            theatres, and other places where people gather, should receive

            special attention; also pass down instructions that each

            monitoring station should report in a timely manner relevant

            observations; people on duty must be on alert. Pay attention

            to safety measures at schools.

 

                Assign people to special duty at the monitoring sites for

            this period of time; the county Earthquake Office should

            receive daily reports from these sites.

 

            1. Strengthen leadership at all levels to complete the tasks ahead.

            2. Promote dissemination of information and education on

               earthquakes.

            3. Strengthen work at the monitoring sites and improve timely

               communication and reporting.

                           

                Earthquake equipment should be placed in suitable air-raid

            resistance shelters.

  

                Earthquake Office location: for now, in the previous office

            space of the Science Committee; reestablish telephone

            communications with overnight duty personnel.