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Taiwan's weather bureau reports intensity in different regions and was reporting mostly 2 in Taipei (maybe at one point 3? esp. for New Taipei), that's what I'm talking about.
Yeah, so? It was a 6.9, that's what it was.
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It was actually a 6.9 https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000i90q...
Actually Taipei was only around 2. Magnitudes 6-7 were in the epicenter near Taitung, fairly far away - about 200-300km.
The Central Weather Bureau in Taiwan uses an intensity scale where a value of 2 means the event is noticeable by most people and 3 means some of those people are frightened.[0]
For example, here[1] is the recent report for this morning's "5-" event (#137), which I can assure you everybody in the office still felt in Taipei, where it was only a "2". This event also had a magnitude of 5.9 on the ML scale that is used internationally.[2]
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Weather_Bureau_seismic...
[1] https://www.cwb.gov.tw/V8/E/E/EQ/EQ111137-0919-100745.html
[2] https://scweb.cwb.gov.tw/en-us/earthquake/details/EE20220919...
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Actually Taipei was only around 2. Magnitudes 6-7 were in the epicenter near Taitung, fairly far away - about 200-300km.
I don't think you'd even feel a magnitude 2 quake. Maybe it's different in such a tall building or maybe it was stronger in this area.
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Not in Taipei, the subject of the article
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The recording of 6.9 was made hundreds of kilometres away from Taipei. What was felt at Taipei 101 was a much lower magnitude.
Footage of it in motion during today's 6.8 magnitude earthquake: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnSh8C40i1s
It was actually a 6.9 https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000i90q...
6.8 and 6.9 are both right, just different unit.
Footage of it in motion during today's 6.8 magnitude earthquake: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnSh8C40i1s
I can’t say that my first reaction to a major earthquake would be “let’s go up to the 89th floor and see what that 1.5 million pound ball is doing!”
I’d always been irrationally afraid of going through an earthquake in a skyscraper when I lived in Japan, but then I had this exact experience in Taipei and it more or less cured that particular strain of anxiety.
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The Millennium Tower piles do not rest on bedrock, it was supposed to use friction with the soil instead. This is cheaper and CAN work but it is far easier to get wrong than having the piles rest directly on bedrock.
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Yo -- when I mentioned Pence and Montana... Iknow several people who owned places in the building, and drank next to Montana in the residents' bar with.... im very familiar with the building
And if you need a very secure location to lock your bike up in SF (which is a good idea) ring the security bell in the parking breezeway near the dumpster, the security guard will open the door - the lock your thing to the stand they have
(LPT: anytime youre in SF rather than use a bike rack outside (people steal your saddles)... drop$5 to check your bike in with a bellhop at a nice hotel.... and they will accomodate you for a week..
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Actually Taipei was only around 2. Magnitudes 6-7 were in the epicenter near Taitung, fairly far away - about 200-300km.
I don't think you'd even feel a magnitude 2 quake. Maybe it's different in such a tall building or maybe it was stronger in this area.