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Students walk past the ruins of the university library, now an earthquake memorial, on the university campus of Tangshan, in China's northeast Hebei Province, on July 19, 2006. Over 240,000 people died from a powerful earthquake that struck Tangshan city on July 28, 1976. Peter Parks/AFP via Getty Images
Chinese tradition holds that “heavenly signs portend good or ill fortune.” In March this year, Beijing residents witnessed what appeared to be a rare blue super meteor. Then, in early August, a strong earthquake hit Shandong Province in North China.
