Taiwan,+September+1999

=Taiwan, September 1999=

Team Members:Sam Bryan, Mykeira Watkins,Carlene Thomas
Directions: Answer the following questions using complete sentences.

1. Which areas of the world are more vulnerable to earthquakes and why? Japan is an area that is most vunerable to earthquakes because the southern part is always hit with earthquakes.

2. What are the major problems dealing with earthquakes in the different areas?

The major problems is that it could leave lots of people homeless and that will affect other people like maybe in another city because the people who houses were damaged would have to move there and it would be more packed there.

3. Is there a successful way to predict earthquakes? Explain.

There is relieable way to predict the days or months when an event will happen at a specific time, Because scientist has created things to tell when it is predicted to happen but isn't always right.

4. What causes earthquakes to occur? Tectonic plates to move either going towards, away, under or over.

5. What is your earthquake? Where is it found (Ex: northern China)? Our eathquake is the ChiChi Taiwan earthquake. It is found in the western part of the island of Taiwan, Nantou County.

6. How long did the earthquake last? The earthquake had lasted more than a minute.

7. What was the earthquake’s magnitude on the Richter scale? The earthquakes magnitude on the Richter scale was greater than 6.0.

8. What was the area like? (city, farmland, industrial, . . ) The area was not doing so well after the earthquake. Thousands of people had died and thousands of people were injured and left homeless. That time was so stressful that some people had even committed suicide. The place was so damaged buildings distroyed which would cost millions of dollars to repair.

9. How large was the population of people living in the area at the time of the earthquake? The total population of people living there was 22 million at the time of the earthquake.

10. What tectonic plate(s) were involved in this earthquake? (Use p664) The tectonic plate that were involved in this earthquake was the subduction and plate convergence.

11. How many people were killed? Injured? Missing? 2,151 people had been killed, 8,140 were injured, 311 trapped under rubble and 33 missing.

12. What is the estimated cost in damage? The estimated cost in damage was at more than 100 billion Taiwanese.

13. What were the effects on the nearby community? Property damage? The effect on the nearby community was not good others were effected. The property damaged also cost millions because so much houses were distroyed.

14. Have other earthquakes occurred at this location? Yes others have occured in taiwan.

15. Other interesting information I found: I found that eathquakes in taiwan had killed many people but not just there other places also and some have lasted only 6 seconds which to me seems short but can cause things to drop everywhere.

16. What is the most effective way to prepare for an earthquake? Where is the safest place to be inside your house? Where is the safest place to be outside? To make sure heavy things are not stored in high places. The safest place to be in your house would be to take a matress and pillows and put them on top of you so that nothing can hit you and hide under a solid table or something. The safest placed to be outside is like in the middle of a wide street to avoide from falling buildings and other things.

Websites:( **ije.oxfordjournals.org**/cgi/content/ full/ 32/6/1007) ( [|www.**semiconductorsafety.org**/ proceedings00/barnesrobert.pdf]) **(greatdreams.com**/taipei.htm )