Taiwan

Slow-to-Fast Earthquake Workshop in Taiwan

• Period: March 13–17, 2023
• Visited cities: Tainan, Kaohsiung, Taitung, Hualien

National Cheng Kung University (Tainan City)

The workshop was held in NCKU International Conference Room.

Tardyhill Natural Park (Kaohsiung City)

Railway Art Village (Taitung City)

Chihshang Fault（Chishang Township, Taitung County）

Surface ruptures caused by the Eastern Taiwan earthquakes (Mw 6.5 & 6.9) on September 17 & 18 2022 (Hualien County)

The collapsed Luntian Bridge (Fuli Township, Hualien County)

A left-lateral fault in a cropland (Yuli Township, Hualien County)

The corrupted Yuli Bridge (Yuli Township, Hualien County)

A visit to MiDAS Observatory in Qixingtan Beach (Hualien County)

We visited MiDAS (Milun Fault Drilling and All-inclusive Sensing project) observatory in Hualien to learn about the distributed acoustic sensing．

MiDAS Observatory

Qixingtan Beach

Qixingtan Beach is the beautiful arc-shaped coast with 15 km long. We can observe the surface displacement by the Milun Fault. MiDAS observatory is located in front of the Qixingtan Beach.

I was really satisfied with this visit and acknowledge their kind support by the MiDAS group led by Prof. Kuo-Fong Ma . Our photos for the visit are also exhibited in the E-DREaM Homepage (Earthquake Disaster & Risk Evaluation and Management Center, National Central University).