{"id":17108,"date":"2024-04-03T12:07:27","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T12:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/03\/strong-taiwan-quake-kills-9-injures-hundreds\/"},"modified":"2024-04-03T12:07:27","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T12:07:27","slug":"strong-taiwan-quake-kills-9-injures-hundreds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/03\/strong-taiwan-quake-kills-9-injures-hundreds\/","title":{"rendered":"Strong Taiwan Quake Kills 9, Injures Hundreds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2019\/11\/26\/reader-center\/author-mike-ives\/author-mike-ives-thumbLarge.png?quality=75&amp;auto=webp&amp;resize=150,150&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Strong Taiwan Quake Kills 9, Injures Hundreds\" title=\"Strong Taiwan Quake Kills 9, Injures Hundreds\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"live-blog-post\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2024\/04\/02\/world\/taiwan-earthquake-japan-tsunami#taiwans-preparedness-has-evolved-in-response-to-past-quakes\" data-source-id=\"100000009394269\">\n<div class=\"live-blog-meta css-1g3itdy\">\n<div class=\"css-yf9s2t\" data-testid=\"live-blog-byline\"><a class=\"css-13xl2ke\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/by\/mike-ives\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"css-1ppjtba\"><span class=\"css-xtl8uk\"><time aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"css-3rgdz2\" datetime=\"2024-04-03T06:58:23.000Z\"><\/p>\n<p><span data-time=\"abs\" class=\"css-1656jku\">April 3, 2024, 2:58 a.m. ET<\/span><span data-time=\"rel\" class=\"css-xwx5dt\"\/><\/p>\n<p><\/time><span class=\"css-1dv1kvn\">April 3, 2024, 2:58 a.m. ET<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><button aria-label=\"Copy a shareable link to your clipboard\" class=\"css-19moa8e\" type=\"button\" id=\"share-link-https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2024\/04\/02\/world\/taiwan-earthquake-japan-tsunami\/taiwans-preparedness-has-evolved-in-response-to-past-quakes\" data-testid=\"copy-link\"><svg class=\"css-1wydbmw\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\"><path d=\"M10.59,13.41C11,13.8 11,14.44 10.59,14.83C10.2,15.22 9.56,15.22 9.17,14.83C7.22,12.88 7.22,9.71 9.17,7.76V7.76L12.71,4.22C14.66,2.27 17.83,2.27 19.78,4.22C21.73,6.17 21.73,9.34 19.78,11.29L18.29,12.78C18.3,11.96 18.17,11.14 17.89,10.36L18.36,9.88C19.54,8.71 19.54,6.81 18.36,5.64C17.19,4.46 15.29,4.46 14.12,5.64L10.59,9.17C9.41,10.34 9.41,12.24 10.59,13.41M13.41,9.17C13.8,8.78 14.44,8.78 14.83,9.17C16.78,11.12 16.78,14.29 14.83,16.24V16.24L11.29,19.78C9.34,21.73 6.17,21.73 4.22,19.78C2.27,17.83 2.27,14.66 4.22,12.71L5.71,11.22C5.7,12.04 5.83,12.86 6.11,13.65L5.64,14.12C4.46,15.29 4.46,17.19 5.64,18.36C6.81,19.54 8.71,19.54 9.88,18.36L13.41,14.83C14.59,13.66 14.59,11.76 13.41,10.59C13,10.2 13,9.56 13.41,9.17Z\"\/><\/svg><\/button><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"imageblock-wrapper\">\n<figure class=\"img-sz-large css-hxpw2c e1g7ppur0\" aria-label=\"media\" role=\"group\"><figcaption data-testid=\"photoviewer-children-caption\" class=\"css-1g9ic6e ewdxa0s0\"><span class=\"css-jevhma e13ogyst0\">Emergency workers helping a survivor in New Taipei City on Wednesday.<\/span><span class=\"css-1u46b97 e1z0qqy90\"><span class=\"css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0\">Credit&#8230;<\/span><span><span aria-hidden=\"false\">Taiwan&#8217;s Central News Agency, via Agence France-Presse \u2014 Getty Images<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Taiwan\u2019s earthquake preparedness has evolved over the past few decades in response to some of the island\u2019s <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"#taiwan-earthquakes-history\" title=\"\">largest and most destructive quakes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">In the years after a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1999\/09\/21\/world\/taiwan-quake-kills-hundreds-thousands-trapped-or-injured.html\" title=\"\">7.6 magnitude earthquake<\/a> in central Taiwan killed nearly 2,500 people in 1999, the authorities established an urban search-and-rescue team and opened several emergency medical operation centers, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC7440375\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">among other measures<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"css-1dv1kvn\">\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">And in 2018, after a quake in the eastern coastal city of Hualien <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/06\/world\/asia\/taiwan-hualien-earthquake.html\" title=\"\">killed 17 people<\/a> and caused several buildings to partially collapse, the government ordered <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/world\/asia\/la-fg-taiwan-earthquake-preparedness-2018-htmlstory.html\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">a wave of building inspections<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Taiwan has also been improving its <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/1424-8220\/21\/22\/7649\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">early warning system<\/a> for earthquakes since the 1980s. And two years ago, it <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taipeitimes.com\/News\/taiwan\/archives\/2022\/11\/16\/2003789019\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">rolled out new building codes<\/a> that, among other things, require owners of vulnerable buildings to install ad-hoc structural reinforcements.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">So how well prepared was Taiwan when <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"#hualien-earthquake-damage-taiwan\" title=\"\">a 7.4 magnitude quake<\/a> struck near Hualien on Wednesday morning, killing at least seven people and injuring hundreds more?<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Across the island, one building collapsed entirely, 15 others were in a state of partial collapse and another 67 were damaged, the island\u2019s fire department <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2024\/04\/03\/world\/taiwan-earthquake-japan-tsunami\/341386a9-570b-581f-979b-ceaa445be71a?smid=url-share\" title=\"\">said on Wednesday afternoon<\/a>. Structural engineers could not immediately be reached for comment to assess that damage, or the extent to which building codes and other regulations might have either contributed to it or prevented worse destruction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">As for search-and-rescue preparedness, Taiwan is generally in very good shape, said Steve Glassey, an expert in disaster response who lives in New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\"><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">\u201c<\/strong>The skill sets, the capabilities, the equipment, the training is second to none,\u201d said Dr. Glassey, who worked with Taipei\u2019s urban search-and-rescue team during the response to <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/02\/21\/world\/australia\/christchurch-new-zealand-quake-red-zone.html\" title=\"\">a devastating 2011 earthquake<\/a> in Christchurch, New Zealand. \u201cThey\u2019re a very sharp operation.\u201d<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"imageblock-wrapper\">\n<figure class=\"img-sz-medium css-d754w4 e1g7ppur0\" aria-label=\"media\" role=\"group\"><figcaption data-testid=\"photoviewer-children-caption\" class=\"css-gbc9ki ewdxa0s0\"><span class=\"css-jevhma e13ogyst0\">Relief workers from Taiwan in Christchurch, New Zealand, after an earthquake in 2011.<\/span><span class=\"css-1u46b97 e1z0qqy90\"><span class=\"css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0\">Credit&#8230;<\/span><span><span aria-hidden=\"false\">Pool photo by Mark Baker<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">But even the best urban search-and-rescue team will be stretched thin if an earthquake causes multiple buildings to collapse, Dr. Glassey said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Taiwan has options for requesting international help with search-and-rescue efforts. It could directly ask another country, or countries, to send personnel. And if multiple teams were to get involved, it could ask the United Nations to help coordinate them, as it did after the 1999 earthquake.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Pierre Peron, a spokesman for the United Nations, said on Wednesday afternoon that no such request had yet been made as a result of the latest earthquake.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-1smqmx3 etfikam0\">Meaghan Tobin<!-- --> contributed reporting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><button class=\"css-182hr0m\" data-testid=\"Show-More\" type=\"button\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Show more<\/button><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 3, 2024, 2:58 a.m. ET April 3, 2024, 2:58 a.m. ET Emergency workers helping a survivor in New Taipei City on Wednesday.Credit&#8230;Taiwan&#8217;s Central News Agency, via Agence France-Presse \u2014 Getty Images Taiwan\u2019s earthquake preparedness has evolved over the past few decades in response to some of the island\u2019s largest and most destructive quakes. 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