This is the last Pacific warning from the Tsunami Warning Center. It is some time ago and there are no current warnings. No tsunami warning was issue for Taiwan. Do they have buoys?
It looks as though Taiwan needs quake proof buildings as well.
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WEPA40 PHEB 231108
TSUPAC
TSUNAMI MESSAGE NUMBER 3
NWS PACIFIC TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER EWA BEACH HI
1102 UTC TUE JAN 23 2018
...PTWC FINAL TSUNAMI THREAT MESSAGE...
There is the observation this is an unusal occurrence. I strongly suggest building standards and tsunami warnings carry brevity in future regulations for Taiwan. Please minimize the death and missing threats. The Pacific rim has become very active over the past decade and there is no estimation that will abate. The people living in the region of the Pacific, that includes Alaska, the USA West Coast and Hawaii should be as prepared for increasing threats. Taiwan's people need to be just as safe as anyone else.
February 7, 2018
By TAIJING WU
Hualien, Taiwan (AP) — Rescuers worked Wednesday (click here) to free people trapped after a strong earthquake near Taiwan’s east coast caused several buildings to cave in and tilt dangerously. At least six people were killed and 76 could not be contacted following the quake.
Videos and photos showed several midsized buildings in worst-hit Hualien county leaning at sharp angles, their lowest floors crushed into mangled heaps of concrete, glass, iron and other debris. Firefighters climbed ladders hoisted against windows to reach residents inside apartments.
The shallow, magnitude 6.4 quake late Tuesday night caused at least four buildings to cave in and shift on their foundations. That was likely caused by soil liquefaction, when the ground beneath a building loses its solidity under stress such as that caused by an earthquake.
A maintenance worker who was rescued after being trapped in the basement of the Marshal Hotel said the force of the earthquake was unusual even for a region used to temblors.
“At first it wasn’t that big … we get this sort of thing all the time and it’s really nothing. But then it got really terrifying,” the worker, Chen Ming-hui, told Taiwan’s official Central News Agency after he was reunited with his son and grandson following the quake. “It was really scary.”...
The focus in California has been more than San Andreas. As scientists have stated the San Andreas is overdue, the people are also looking more closely at the Elsinora Fault Zone. There was a 4.0 there in January and it surprised the people.
I am a firm believer that long time residents of these areas are reliable when they make observations of new events and surprises. People can be counted on to be alert to change in their safety.
