Saw this on nando.com

-- Puddintame (achillesg@hotmail.com), September 25, 1999

Answers

http://www.nandonet.com/global/story/0,1024,500038017-500061614- 500065939-0,00.html

No mention of whether building was occupied.

-- Puddintame (achillesg@hotmail.com), September 25, 1999.

Puddintame: Just clicked on here, did this happen just now, today?

-- bardou (bardou@baloney.com), September 25, 1999.

http://www.nando.net/noframes/story/0,2107,500038017-500061614-5000659 39-0,00.html

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Another strong quake strikes Taiwan, toppling 15-story apartment building

Copyright ) 1999 Nando Media
Copyright ) 1999 Agence France-Press

TAICHUNG, Taiwan (September 25, 1999 10:26 p.m. EDT
http://www.nandotimes.com) -

Another massive aftershock measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale rocked Taiwan Sunday, causing a 15-story apartment building in central Taiwan to collapse, according to initial reports.

Local television said the building, which had already been damaged, had collapsed onto a road and a neighboring farmers' union office.

Details of casualties or further building collapses were not immediately available.

The aftershock hit at 7:52 a.m. (6:52 p.m. EDT Saturday), 6 miles east of Sun Moon Lake in Nantou county, the epicenter of Tuesday's 7.6 quake which claimed more than 2,000 lives.

The tremor originated from 4.7 miles underground.

It equaled the largest of more than 6,500 aftershocks to have hit the island since Tuesday. More than 70 of the shocks have been classed as "major" quakes in their own right.

President Lee Teng-hui late Saturday declared a state of emergency for six months to help more than 100,000 homeless as the aftershocks continued and refugees in camps faced downpours from an approaching tropical storm.

The powers were also to speed a program to repair colossal damage to infrastructure - estimated at $3.14 billion U.S. - both of industry and agriculture.

The official death toll on Sunday was 2,002. A further 8,544 people were listed as injured, 229 as missing or trapped in rubble, and 1,629 stranded.

More than 6,100 buildings, mainly high-rise apartment blocks containing up to 100 flats each, have so far been destroyed. Another 5,398 are damaged. A campaign has begun to charge substandard builders with manslaughter.

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-- Ashton & Leska in Cascadia (allaha@earthlink.net), September 26, 1999.

Thanks Ashton & Leska! This latest quake will certainly have a lasting effect on badly needed computer chips and parts...it doesn't look good.

-- bardou (bardou@baloney.com), September 26, 1999.

Nope :-( Our dream of Macs taking over the world as the logical Y2K solution has been dashed.

Seriously, earthquakes are terrifying and deadly. Cascadia is expecting a 9+. But we live here because it is so beautiful. Worth dying for, if it comes to that. Quality of life ...

-- Ashton & Leska in Cascadia (allaha@earthlink.net), September 26, 1999.

Taiwan is on the Pacific Ring of Fire same as Cascadia --Land of Volcanoes! If depth of epicentres starts to rise could be the birth of a new Volcanoe?? Stay tuned!

-- chuck (chaspark@ccinet.ab.ca), September 26, 1999.

Does not bode well for tommorow's open.

-- Gordon (g_gecko_69@hotmail.com), September 26, 1999.