Next to the Haiti earthquake, this is the worst I've seen. There is reporting there were tin cans in the walls of fallen buildings? What is that all about?
Feb. 8, 2016
By J. R. Wu, and Damon Lin
Rescuers (click here) pulled out alive an eight-year-old girl and her aunt from the rubble of a Taiwan apartment block on Monday, more than 60 hours after it was toppled by a quake, as the mayor of the southern city of Tainan warned the death toll could exceed 100.
The official death toll from the quake rose to 38, with more than 100 people missing.
The girl, named as Lin Su-Chin, was conscious and had been taken to hospital, Taiwan television stations said. Her aunt, Chen Mei-jih, was rescued shortly after.
The quake struck at about 4 a.m. on Saturday (2000 GMT Friday) at the beginning of the Lunar New Year holiday, with almost all the dead found in Tainan's toppled Wei-guan Golden Dragon Building....
The government is looking at the age of the buildings, but, there were earthquake resistant buildings in 1994. It's a shame we learn lessons after the deaths of people and not aware of danger and remedies before it happens.
...Taiwan's government said in a statement 36 of the 38 dead were from the Wei-guan building, which was built in 1994....
Feb. 8, 2016
By J. R. Wu, and Damon Lin
Rescuers (click here) pulled out alive an eight-year-old girl and her aunt from the rubble of a Taiwan apartment block on Monday, more than 60 hours after it was toppled by a quake, as the mayor of the southern city of Tainan warned the death toll could exceed 100.
The official death toll from the quake rose to 38, with more than 100 people missing.
The girl, named as Lin Su-Chin, was conscious and had been taken to hospital, Taiwan television stations said. Her aunt, Chen Mei-jih, was rescued shortly after.
The quake struck at about 4 a.m. on Saturday (2000 GMT Friday) at the beginning of the Lunar New Year holiday, with almost all the dead found in Tainan's toppled Wei-guan Golden Dragon Building....
The government is looking at the age of the buildings, but, there were earthquake resistant buildings in 1994. It's a shame we learn lessons after the deaths of people and not aware of danger and remedies before it happens.
...Taiwan's government said in a statement 36 of the 38 dead were from the Wei-guan building, which was built in 1994....
