Fengnan

Proper noun

Fengnan

1. A district of Tangshan, Hebei, China, formerly a county.
   • Quoting documents received from behind the Bamboo Curtain, the sources said that the number of casualties in the area of Tangshan, Peiping, Tientsin and Fengnan “was very great and could not be immediately estimated.”1976 August 1, “M'land quake stirs people's concern here”, in Free China Weekly, volume XVII, number 30, Taipei, →OCLC, page 1
   • The alert technically ended late last night when Chinese officials announced that “no strong earthquake will occur in the near future” in the Peking area. The statement went on to suggest that the state of alert would continue in the city of Tangshan‐ and in Fengnan county, where the epicenter of...
   • “According to the report from the state's seismological bureau,” the statement said, “after the earthquake in the Tangshan‐Fengnan area, the general tendency is that aftershock activities are diminishing, but there will be ups and down in the process and there may be fairly strong aftershocks.”1976 August 16, Ross H. Munro, “LONG QUAKE ALERT ENDED FOR PEKING”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Mar 2023, page 7