Engineering Wonder: China to build world's longest underwater tunnel
Engineering Wonder: China to build world's longest underwater tunnel
New Delhi: China plans to build the world's longest underwater tunnel beneath the Bohai Sea by 2026, connecting the port cities of Dalian in Liaoning province and Yantai in Shandong province. The blueprint of the
The tunnel runs across two earthquake fault lines, and in 1976 the industrial city of Tangshan in Hebei province – between Shandong and Liaoning – was levelled by an earthquake with a magnitude of at least 7.5, although figures vary.