That Italian verdict was insane. What were they thinking? How can they expect scientists to predict the unpredictable?

This one off Kaohsiung seems to be part of that fault system that runs diagonally (NE to SW), north of Kaohsiung. I think that probably is the same fault system, if not actual fault, that caused the big quake nearly 100 years ago north of Tainan. I can't remember ever experiencing a quake that size in that area when we lived in Kaohsiung. The big ones were always south, near the southern tip of Taiwan, or northeast of Tainan.