Taiwan Earthquake

[Uther]

Some horrendous scenes there. Lots of people trapped apparently...

Taiwan: Scores trapped as video shows moment country hit by biggest earthquake in 25 years

Nine people have died and more than 900 have been injured after the earthquake struck during Wednesday morning's rush hour.

news.sky.com

 

[Thekwango]

your man in the swimming pool - hilarious. them folk on that bridge, a whole lot less so. i'd have been cacking it waiting for the bridge to collapse - guessing it's designed to withstand an earthquake, same as a lot of their buildings?! cause that was a whole lotta rocking and shaking taking place.

remarkably small death toll given the time of day and magnitude. again, guessing, their infrastructure is built to survive earthquakes?

 

[Martynt74]

Who the hell uses "Scores" as a measurement these days!

 

[200sols]

Who the hell uses "Scores" as a measurement these days!

News sites.

 

[Feef]

your man in the swimming pool - hilarious. them folk on that bridge, a whole lot less so. i'd have been cacking it waiting for the bridge to collapse - guessing it's designed to withstand an earthquake, same as a lot of their buildings?! cause that was a whole lotta rocking and shaking taking place.

remarkably small death toll given the time of day and magnitude. again, guessing, their infrastructure is built to survive earthquakes?

It is designed to withstand them, any videos of the damper in the Taipei 101 during an earthquake will show that quite neatly, but it also helps that /most/ earthquakes in Taiwan happen in or around Hualien - over on the east coast, not a whole lot around, and a very well drilled population.

I was living in Tainan during the 2016 quake there which did a lot more damage (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_southern_Taiwan_earthquake), it was quite unusual to have the epicentre on that side of the island, but there weren't as many videos of swimming pools and bridges Was also in the very early hours though.