6.1 in nantou (General)

by dan, Wednesday, March 27, 2013, 18:39 (4041 days ago) @ dulan drift

This report claims 20 were injured: http://is.gd/w1rC86

My usual cutoff for a major quake in Taiwan is 6.5. (OK, 6.3 is getting there.) I've noticed anything under that may cause some structural damage, but not much because they're so frequent that a 6.0 would have taken anything down years ago, whereas a 6.5+ is much less common. Granted, in California if a 6.0 hits it's international news for a month and it probably would cause substantial damage. Likewise, if a 6.0 hits anywhere else in the world not often hit by such quakes, it would cause substantial damage. But here we eat them for breakfast so it's no big deal.

Why do I like earthquakes so much? That's sick given that one of the top five worst ways of dying, on my list anyway, is being buried alive in rubble.


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