In the middle of so much sadness we can, however, report two stories with happy endings. One is from Qinglong, which isis 115 kilometres from Tangshan. Government workers who had received scientific warnings of a possible earthquake organized tents for 200,000 people, and that is where they slept on the night of the disaster. Although 180,000 buildings were destroyed in Qinglong, not a single person died because of the earthquake