The China Earthquake Administration (CEA; ) is a public institution managed by the

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at the deputy ministerial level in charge of national earthquake disaster reduction work. It is currently managed by the

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. Some English text use the name Chinese Seismic Bureau (CSB). In older text, it was also referred to by its former name, National Earthquake Bureau (NEB) or National Seismic Bureau (NSB).

Bureaus

CEA presently has nine subordinate bureaus. * General Office (Office for Policy Research) () * Bureau of Development and Finance () * Bureau of Earthquake Monitoring and Forecasting () * Bureau of Earthquake Damage Prevention (Bureau for Regulations) () * Bureau of Earthquake Emergency Rescue () * Department of Personnel, Education, Science, and Technology (Bureau of International Cooperation) () * Party Committee () * Discipline Inspection Team of CCDI in the China Earthquake Administration (Bureau of Supervision) () * Office of the Welfare of Retired Personnel ()

Establishment

As a country stricken by two of the world's ten most fatal earthquakes before the creation of CEA, China's first seismic monitoring stations were set up under the

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. A national ''Earthquake Affairs Office'' ()was created under joint administration of the ''National Science and Technology Commission'' () and Chinese Academy of Sciences after the

1966 Xingtai earthquakes The Xingtai earthquake () was a sequence of major earthquakes that took place between March 8 and March 29, 1966, in the area administered by the prefecture-level city of Xingtai in southern Hebei province, People's Republic of China. The first ...

. A ''Central Task Force of Earthquakes'' () under the

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was created the day after a M7.4 earthquake struck

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on July 18, 1969. In 1971, the State Council decided to create the National Earthquake Bureau (CNEB), predecessor to CEA, to replace the "Central Task Force". The State Council initially delegated administration of the CNEB to the Chinese Academy of Sciences. CNEB became directly administrated by the State Councile in 1975. Following the recommendation from the CNEB, each province, autonomous regions and centrally administrated municipalities in PRC has established its own earthquake bureau since 1977. In 1985, these local bureaus were placed under dual leadership of the local government and the national bureau. CNEB was renamed CEA in 1998.

References

External links

* Official CEA Web site. {{Authority control 1971 establishments in China Emergency management in China Government agencies established in 1971 Government agencies of China Seismological observatories, organisations and projects State Council of China

Bureaus

Establishment

See also

References

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