Earthquake in Taiwan

Mik

TG, I hope all your loved ones are safe.

Jolly

That would be scary.

Renauda

What Mik wrote.

taiwan_girl

Thanks. Yes, everybody I know is okay.

jon-nyc

@taiwan_girl said in Earthquake in Taiwan:

Thanks. Yes, everybody I know is okay.

Good to know.

George K · "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

@taiwan_girl said in Earthquake in Taiwan:

Thanks. Yes, everybody I know is okay.

Good to hear.

Hasn't Japan made huge strides in "earthquake-proofing" buildings? The tech is pretty interesting.

Also, this was on the east side of the island - less-populated and less dense than the western side. It could have been much worse.

Last I read, seven dead.

George K · "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

Mik

I think I'd be headed to the ladder.

taiwan_girl

@George-K said in Earthquake in Taiwan:

Hasn't Japan made huge strides in "earthquake-proofing" buildings? The tech is pretty interesting.

Same in Taiwan. About 25 year ago, there was another serious earthquake and many people were killed. THey have improved the technology since then.

@George-K said in Earthquake in Taiwan:

Also, this was on the east side of the island - less-populated and less dense than the western side. It could have been much worse.

I agree. But my friend in Taipei and things coming off the shelf and breaking, etc. so it was felt pretty strongly there in Taipei. I saw a video of Taipei 101 tower swaying, but I think it may have been a fake, as I believe it was swaying way too much to be real. Though I am sure there was some swaying to the building.

Mik

7.4 and 7.5. Those are big shakers.

George K · "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

Mik

Very quick thinking.

George K · "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

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Taiwan on Thursday condemned China as "shameless" after Beijing's deputy ambassador to the United Nations thanked the world for its concern about a strong earthquake on the island.

China claims democratically-governed Taiwan as its own territory and also claims the right to speak for it on the international stage, to the fury of Taipei given Beijing's communist government has never ruled the island and has no say in how it chooses its leaders.

On Wednesday, after the 7.2 earthquake hit eastern Taiwan, killing 10 people, China's Deputy Permanent Representative to the U.N., Geng Shuang, mentioned at a meeting about children's rights that another speaker had brought up the quake in "China's Taiwan".

China is concerned about the damage and has expressed condolences to Taiwan and offered aid, he said, according to a transcript of his remarks carried on the Chinese mission to the U.N.'s website.

"We thank the international community for its expressions of sympathy and concern," he added.

Taiwan's foreign ministry expressed anger at the remarks.

The ministry "solemnly condemns China's shameless use of the Taiwan earthquake to conduct cognitive operations internationally", it said, using Taiwan's normal term for what it views as Chinese psychological warfare.

This shows China has no goodwill towards Taiwan, the ministry added.