7.5 earthquake in Hualien, Taiwan

That reddish brown building in the second video!

 

Not where I’d wanna be…

 

Seemed like the fire truck posted up beneath it. Yikes.

Heartbreaking

 

Yeah, last place I would want to park.

 

In-laws live in Chiayi. BiL/SiL are down south. Thankfully, everyone is ok. They said it was shaking throughout the day. This probably could have been much worse, as the east side of the island where the center shock occurred, is much less inhabited. Nonetheless, people experienced the quake throughout the island.

 

7.5 is a significant quake, thats for sure.

 

Mother Earth remains angry.

 

Dang. Hopefully the death toll and damage isn't too horrible.

I am in Taipei in September.

 

https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/s/3yk6DTw1su

Holy!

 

Two weeks tops before Fox or Newsmax is running Chinese earthquake ray stories

 

Damn!

 

My primary doctor here in Cali is from Taiwan and has family back there.
(She's absolutely beautiful too)

 

Enjoy the food and the wimen! Report back and tell us about your trip. If you can get over to Hualien, it's supposed to be really cool. I haven't been before.

 

Yikers

 

Either that or China somehow caused it with underground drills or some shit.

 

My in-laws live in Taipei. They said the Taipei 101 building was swaying back and forth at the top, which is surprising because the building has a very large (18-foot dia., 660 MT) solid metal ball suspended from just below the top of the building to prevent swaying during an earthquake. It is the largest damper system in the world.



https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/tuned-mass-damper-of-taipei-101