Taiwan Earthquake - The 9-21 Earthquake (September 21 1999) :: essays research papers

chinaware Earthquake - The 9-21 Earthquake ( phratry 21 1999)CNN A finicky watchwordworthiness report-This morning, there was an earthquake registering 7.6 on the Richter scale shaked Taiwan at 145am on September 21,1999. The epicenter is a mile downstairs the ground in Nantou near Puli. There are many buildings crushed, and blush a twelve floor-high rise building suddenly became a two floor- high rise building (the first to the sixth floors dipped into the underground, and the 7th to the twelfth floors went diagonally down and damaged the road.) As of press judgment of conviction the Disaster Management Center said 2,034 raft were confirmed dead. other 6,536 were injured and 2,308 were trapped, while 208 were still listed as missing. The number still increases, Taiwan has many earthquakes, and although most are centered under the sea and motion no damage. Some have brought disaster to the island, but this time is the biggest earthquake in Taiwanese history. Taiwanese c all it the 9-21 earthquake because it happened on September 21 1999. I was at my work place, I had heard the news there was a building crushed in Taipei because of a serious earthquake was registering 7.6 happened in Taiwan about an hour ago. I was so happy and careless because my entire family dose not cost close to Taipei and I did not have any braggart(a) information about central Taiwan. During my lunch break, there was updating news from CNN station the epicenter of this earthquake is in Nantou near Puli. My heart was obstinate and cold, after I knew the epicenter was in my grandmothers home town-Puli. Nantou County is near 200km south of Taipei, and it is the only place not around the ocean in Taiwan. There are only mountains around Nantou, and Puli is a small town in Nantou County. There are about two thousand deal in Puli, and its wine, rice noodles, and beauty are the most famous things in Taiwan because Puli has very good and clean spring water, and the air flavor is the top of the line- no pollution. Moreover Puli is a small town, and all the people in Puli are like a big family. People make do everything in the town, and they knew me since I was born. It is a very different environment and deliver in Puli than in America, and I love it very much. It was hard to look at that Mother Nature punished Puli and Taiwan so badly.