Ml 6.4 taiwan

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Magnitude ML 6.4Region TAIWANDate time 2016-02-05 19:57:27.1 UTCLocation 22.93 N ; 120.54 EDepth 17 km



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[Hervé]

Taiwan residential tower toppled by deadly 6.4 quake (AERIAL FOOTAGE)

RT Published time: 6 Feb, 2016 02:46
Edited time: 6 Feb, 2016 14:16

© TBSCTS / Reuters

A few seconds of earthquake fury killed at least 14 people, injured dozens and shattered the lives of hundreds who lived in the Wei Guan apartment building complex in Tainan. Aerial footage shows the extent of the disaster which people woke up to ahead of Chinese New Year.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=JABgu0_Q7zw

Captured high over the main disaster scene, the aerial footage showing the wrath of mother nature displayed a complete devastation of the Wei Guan complex’s two buildings that housed more than 250 people consisting of over 90 households. Local media said the collapsed building complex included a care center for newborns and mothers.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ikxej3R2ofo

Eight people have officially been confirmed dead so far, including a 10-day-old infant, a 40-year-old man and a 55-year-old woman.

Firefighters and rescue teams among tons of stone-cold concrete can be seen scrambling to save lives of dozens still believed trapped under the rubble. Ladders, cranes and other equipment are seen extracting survivors from the buildings that lay flat on one side of the road.

Rescuers have so far pulled out 247 people from the two residential high-rises that collapsed when a shallow 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck. Many are still trapped inside the concrete ruble. Some 115 residents lucky enough to escape the consequence of the natural disaster were rushed to a hospital.

The 6.4 quake which hit early on Saturday morning, just before Chinese New Year celebrations on February 8, caught people completely unaware in their sleep. They were preparing to fill the weekend with family celebrations.

Rescue teams and special canine units are continuing their search for possible survivors.

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At least 14 killed as multiple buildings collapse in 6.4 Taiwan quake

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The Kuomingtang president is stepping down in May. That may see to the end of century of Kuomingtang's existence because the ruling party stepping in is pro Taiwan independence. The choice of Ma's visit a week ago of the Taiping island in the Spratlys obviously to affirm sovereignty is strategic and the US expressed deep "concern" over it. Could the occurence of this earthquake at this time be a reminder of the power of US?

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[Hervé]

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... then the rats were found out:

Tin cans found ‘reinforcing’ concrete walls of high-rise building which collapsed in Taiwan quake

Published time: 7 Feb, 2016 23:52
Edited time: 8 Feb, 2016 01:38

Rescue personnel work at the site where a 17-storey apartment building collapsed, after an earthquake in Tainan, southern Taiwan February 7, 2016. © Tyrone Siu / Reuters

The only high-rise building to have collapsed in the Taiwanese city of Tainan following a major earthquake on Saturday seems to have had serious constructions flaws. The collapse has exposed cooking-oil cans embedded inside the building’s concrete walls.

Witnesses at the scene have told Reuters that they saw large rectangular, commercial cans of cooking-oil packed inside the wall cavities of the 17-story Wei Guan Golden Dragon Building, apparently having been used as building material.

_yasu ‏@yasuatai

地震で崩壊する建物から毎回見つかる一斗缶で出来た柱…。これじゃ崩壊するのあたりまえ。。。

A BBC correspondent reported from the scene that the collapse has exposed blue-and-white cooking oil cans that “appear to have been used as filler inside some of the concrete beams.”

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=vACDH9uYXus

The authorities have already employed three teams of civil engineers and started investigation into the collapse of the two decade old building, Tainan Mayor William Lai said.

"When it's completed, we'll punish those who should be held accountable," he said.

ffloresm ‏@ffloresm

Taiwán investiga aparición de latas en columnas de edificios derrumbados @chematierra http://mashable.com/2016/02/07/taiwan-earthquake-oil-cans/?utm_cid=mash-com-Tw-main-link#2WD5RgdMcgq3 …

Cooking-oil cans inside wall cavities were reportedly one of the reasons behind the collapse of some of the buildings during another Taiwan earthquake in 1999.

As of Sunday evening the death toll from the 6.7-magnitude earthquake that hit Taiwan at the beginning of the Lunar New Year holiday stands at 33, with 31 of the dead having been found at the collapsed Wei-guan Golden Dragon Building in Tainan.

Linde136 ‏@Linde136

Cooking oil cans in reinforced pillar of building in Yongkang District exposed after earthquake Photo: Taipei Times

Reuters also reported that one Taiwanese bank had a policy of rejecting loans to residents of the Wei-guan building, citing its poor construction.

Rescuers are racing against time to save 119 people who are still believed to be trapped under the rubble. A total of 309 people have been rescued so far, Xinhua news agency reported.

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