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Magnitude 7.2 earthquake hits north

Edit Taipei Times 31 May 2016
A magnitude 7.2 earthquake shook the north of the ... The earthquake was the strongest recorded in the nation this year, as well as the second-strongest since the 921 Earthquake of 1999, which had a magnitude of 7.3 and caused severe damage ... Bureau data showed that the earthquake occurred 73.1km northeast of Keelung City Hall at a depth of about 270km....

FEATURE: Jhongsing development continues, despite high costs

Edit Taipei Times 28 May 2016
Once the seat of the Taiwan Provincial Government, Jhongsing New Village (中興新村), a planned community founded in 1956 in Nantou County, has nearly become a ghost town ... Only about 4,600 people still live in the village, where a significant number of buildings have been abandoned and damage caused by the 921 Earthquake in 1999 is still visible ... A glimpse of a bright future was shown ... ....

Chiang Ching-kuo’s tomb at risk from quake: official

Edit Taipei Times 23 Apr 2016
The bodies of Chiang Kai-shek (蔣介石) and his son Chiang Ching-kuo were not buried ... Another point of concern is that the Chiang Ching-kuo site is only 195m from the Sindian faultline, which passes through the entire Taoyuan area, the official said, adding that the government has yet to make a complete assessment of the area after the 921 Earthquake in 1999 ... The southern tip of the fault is in Dasi ... ....

Taipei to outline earthquake safety plans

Edit Taipei Times 15 Mar 2016
Lin made the remark at a news conference to solicit tenders to expand the staff of the Taipei Urban Redevelopment Center, of which he is the CEO. The plan refers to measures from government-sponsored assessments of the safety of buildings erected before the 921 Earthquake in 1999 to subsequent reinforcements or reconstruction ... Take myself as an example; I will know what method to use the moment I see a drawing,” he said ... ....

Data show areas thought prone to soil liquefaction

Edit Taipei Times 14 Mar 2016
... damage during a major earthquake ... It indicates that buildings constructed after the 921 Earthquake in 1999, those with three-story or deeper basements and those with pile foundations or raft foundations are not at risk of collapse, even if their locations are susceptible to soil liquefaction, Executive Yuan spokesperson Sun Lih-chyun (孫立群) said....

No lessons learned from 921: expert

Edit Taipei Times 07 Mar 2016
The government has failed to learn a lesson from the 921 Earthquake that hit Taiwan in 1999, and has allowed poorly constructed buildings to continue to exist, an expert said on Sunday, calling on the authorities to make drastic changes to prevent further quake disasters ... A post-921 Earthquake investigation found that close to 90 percent of the ......

NARL unveils earthquake measures

Edit Taipei Times 03 Mar 2016
“We have to find ways to reduce the scale of disaster before the next large earthquake strikes,” Chang said ... “Japan is mostly hit by earthquakes out at sea ... A post-earthquake disaster analysis could predict locations that might be severely damaged to ensure that those places would not be isolated and unassisted if communications were to be cut, as was the case with the 921 Earthquake in Nantou County in 1999, Chang said....

Cabinet expanding checks on buildings

Edit Taipei Times 25 Feb 2016
The Executive Yuan had originally planned to check structures built before 1997, but decided to expand the program to include those built before the 921 Earthquake in 1999, the magnitude 7.6 quake that killed more than 2,400 people and injured more than 10,000 ... 6 earthquake that killed 117 people in Tainan, including 115 who died in the collapse of the Weiguan Jinlong complex in Yongkang District (永康) ... ....

Weak concrete blamed in Weiguan Jinlong collapse

Edit Taipei Times 18 Feb 2016
While an official examination of the building is ongoing, an academic survey of more than 1,000 buildings damaged in the 921 Earthquake in 1999 found that the quality of concrete was directly related to damage, Chan said, adding that concrete in 88 percent of the damaged buildings surveyed in 1999 failed to meet regulatory standards....

Activists urge fault zone building limits

Edit Taipei Times 17 Feb 2016
The coalition asked the city government to limit construction in the vicinity of active faults to follow a precedent set by Nantou County after the 921 Earthquake in 1999 ... “Many buildings in the city were constructed before the 921 Earthquake and only designed to resist magnitude 5 quakes, so they might not be able to stand another strong ......

Ko defends city’s ‘old building ‘checkups’

Edit Taipei Times 17 Feb 2016
Asked what policies Taipei introduced to ensure building safety, given that New Taipei City Mayor Eric Chu (朱立倫) on Tuesday said all buildings in New Taipei City erected before the 921 Earthquake in 1999 would be qualified for free checkups, Ko said he is averse to “knee-jerk” reactions, and that policies to promote residential safety should be comprehensive....

Cabinet mulls special act for repairs

Edit Taipei Times 14 Feb 2016
Premier Simon Chang (張善政) held a meeting at the Central Emergency Operations Center in New Taipei City yesterday morning to discuss post-earthquake priorities with other government officials ... Sun said that the terms of any special act would ensure the welfare of those affected and would be in line with the special acts governing the reconstruction work following the 921 Earthquake in 1999 and Typhoon Morakot in 2009....

System to warn users about disasters

Edit Taipei Times 14 Feb 2016
The establishment of the system was proposed after northeastern Japan was devastated on March 11, 2011, by a magnitude 9 earthquake followed by a tsunami ... earthquakes and any life-threatening disasters ... Using the example of the 921 Earthquake in 1999, Lo said that it took about 30 seconds for the information to be transmitted from the CWB to users....
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