There was a historical event which happened in Taiwan. It was the 921 big earthquakes. This was a big event happened to us, because they were so many people died in this earthquake. In 1999 in Jiji, Nantou, the big earthquake happened. The Moment magnitude scale was 7.6 which was really big one. 2,416 people were killed, over 11,000 seriously injured, and NT300 billion worth of damage was done. It was the second-deadliest quake in recorded history in Taiwan.
However, rescue groups from around the world joined local relief workers and the Taiwanese military in digging out survivors, clearing rubble, restoring essential services and distributing food and other aid to the more than 100,000 people made homeless by the quake. This disaster totally destroyed everything in Taiwan. 102 major bridges were badly damaged, with many having to be torn down. Electricity was cut due to the damage to power station. Everything was seriously damage by the quake.
Finally, the quake stopped Taiwanese economic and brought huge damage to the entire island. The earthquake took so long for Taiwanese to rebuild building or houses. It was a really bad event in Taiwan’s history.
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Frank said...
ReplyDeleteI'm so sorry to hear the earthquake. Last year, we had a big earthquake in WenChuan,SiChuan Provice, China. And it was more serious than that in Taiwan, It was said the WenChuan earthquake was 7.8 scale and over 6000 people died.
David - I saw that you copied much of this information from Wikipedia. This is not a good idea. When you get information from another place, you need to change the words into your own words. Please talk to me.
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