A Preliminary Report on the 1999 Chi-Chi (Taiwan) Earthquake

Research Article| January 01, 2000 A Preliminary Report on the 1999 Chi-Chi (Taiwan) Earthquake T. C. Shin; T. C. Shin Central Weather Bureau 64 Kung Yuan Road Taipei, Taiwan shin@taiwan.cwb.gov.tw kuo@ss2.cwb.gov.tw (T.C.S., K.W.K.) Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar K. W. Kuo; K. W. Kuo Central Weather Bureau 64 Kung Yuan Road Taipei, Taiwan shin@taiwan.cwb.gov.tw kuo@ss2.cwb.gov.tw (T.C.S., K.W.K.) Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar W. H. K. Lee; W. H. K. Lee U. S. Geological Survey MS 977 345 Middlefield Road Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA lee@usgs.gov (W.H.K.L.) Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar T. L. Teng; T. L. Teng Dept. of Earth Sciences University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA lteng@terra.usc.edu (T.L.T.) Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Y. B. Tsai Y. B. Tsai Dept. of Geophysics National Central University Chungli, Taiwan ybtsai@geps.gep.ncu.edu.tw (Y.B.T.) Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Seismological Research Letters (2000) 71 (1): 24–30. https://doi.org/10.1785/gssrl.71.1.24 Article history first online: 09 Mar 2017 Cite View This Citation Add to Citation Manager Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Search Site Citation T. C. Shin, K. W. Kuo, W. H. K. Lee, T. L. Teng, Y. B. Tsai; A Preliminary Report on the 1999 Chi-Chi (Taiwan) Earthquake. Seismological Research Letters 2000;; 71 (1): 24–30. doi: https://doi.org/10.1785/gssrl.71.1.24 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Refmanager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter All ContentBy SocietySeismological Research Letters Search Advanced Search A major earthquake (M2 =7.6) occurred near the town of Chi-Chi in Nantou county, central Taiwan, at 1:47 a.m., 21 September 1999, local time (UTC is 17:47, 20 September 1999), about 150 km south of Taipei. As of 13 October 1999 Taiwan's Interior Department record shows that the death toll is 2,333 and 10,002 people were injured. Thousands of houses collapsed, making more than 100,000 people homeless. This disastrous earthquake provided a wealth of modern digital data for seismology and earthquake engineering because an extensive six-year seismic instrumentation program for Taiwan was successfully implemented three years ago... You do not currently have access to this article.