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This was felt pretty strongly in Taipei, some reports of electricity outage too. All my friends and I seem ok though.

voisin 3y ago
Is there a stream of the big dampening device in Taipei 101? I cannot find it via usual searches but wonder if it is available in another language search.
- thangngoc89 3y ago
  It happened too early 8:03 AM. Probably no visitor or even staff in Taipei 101. Last time videos are all from visitor.
  - voisin 3y ago
    That’s too bad. They should live stream it so they can allow performance after earthquakes, a testament to successful engineering.
  - hojinkoh 3y ago
    I can't imagine how terrifying it will be if I was on Taipei 101 during this quake...
    - komali2 3y ago
      There's no building I'd rather be in during an earthquake in all of Taiwan. Scratch that - a TSMC fabrication facility is probably safer.
    - wiredfool 3y ago
      You shouldn't be. Tall buildings (> 40 floors) are one of the safer places to be in an earthquake. 1) They're engineered. 2) They're already designed for side loads from wind. 3) Their fundamental frequency is well lower than the peak of the earthquake spectrum, so they don't amplify the motion. Good rule of thumb is that period = floors/10, so fo a 50 story building you're looking at a 5 second period. Earthquakes have most of their energy in ~1 second period waves. So effectively, the base wiggles and the top just floats along. The place to be terrified is in a 6-10 story unreinforced masonry apartment building.
      - appleiigs 3y ago
        > 1) They're engineered. Famous last words.
        wiredfool 3y ago
        They're more engineered than a 6 story apartment building. (civil engineer by training, though never got a PE because startups)
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thangngoc89 3y ago
I’m also in Taipei. It’s the worst one ever I’ve felt in my life. Staying on the 7th floor with noway to escape in time is probably the worst feeling
- komali2 3y ago
  If it's any consolation, there's not really time to escape a collapsing building from any level, since the bottom floors usually are crushed first and near instantaneously. If you look at pictures from partially collapsed buildings in Hualian you can see that sometimes it's just the bottom floor that's destroyed and the remaining floors are fine for sometimes days or even until the building is manually taken down. The pictures of collapsed buildings after earthquakes are scary but the chance of an individual building collapsing are quite low, you're at far greater risk if you're outside near buildings because broken glass or similar could fall on you. The standard advice is good advice for a reason: stay inside, under sturdy furniture, on your elbows and knees, covering your head. You can learn more here: https://sf-fire.org/disaster-preparedness-information-resources https://sf-fire.org/disaster-preparedness-information-resour...
  - LilBytes 3y ago
    I appreciate the context you're providing, but "Hey you'd be dead regardless of where you are in the building at the time if it collapses" isn't as reassuring as you'd think.
    - jfrbfbreudh 3y ago
      Read his comment again
  - kijin 3y ago
    Any data on survivability of occupants of upper floors in cases where the bottom floor is destroyed and the rest of the building settles on top of the rubble instead of pancaking? This is exactly what happened with some apartment blocks in Japan earlier this year, too. I guess it depends a lot on whether the building stays upright or falls over, as there are plenty of objects that can crush a person in any space that suddenly turns sideways.
dev-jayson 3y ago
I'm in Taichung, it shook hard as hell but I don't think we took any damage comparing to Taipei or Hualien.
a_random_canuck 3y ago
I'm also living in central Taipei, this one woke me up, we felt really strong shaking in our flat on the 4th floor. Some tiles fell off the buildings on my street but otherwise everyone is fine. Right after the quake saw police and fire dept patrolling around.

Is there a stream of the big dampening device in Taipei 101? I cannot find it via usual searches but wonder if it is available in another language search.

thangngoc89 3y ago
It happened too early 8:03 AM. Probably no visitor or even staff in Taipei 101. Last time videos are all from visitor.
- voisin 3y ago
  That’s too bad. They should live stream it so they can allow performance after earthquakes, a testament to successful engineering.
- hojinkoh 3y ago
  I can't imagine how terrifying it will be if I was on Taipei 101 during this quake...
  - komali2 3y ago
    There's no building I'd rather be in during an earthquake in all of Taiwan. Scratch that - a TSMC fabrication facility is probably safer.
  - wiredfool 3y ago
    You shouldn't be. Tall buildings (> 40 floors) are one of the safer places to be in an earthquake. 1) They're engineered. 2) They're already designed for side loads from wind. 3) Their fundamental frequency is well lower than the peak of the earthquake spectrum, so they don't amplify the motion. Good rule of thumb is that period = floors/10, so fo a 50 story building you're looking at a 5 second period. Earthquakes have most of their energy in ~1 second period waves. So effectively, the base wiggles and the top just floats along. The place to be terrified is in a 6-10 story unreinforced masonry apartment building.
    - appleiigs 3y ago
      > 1) They're engineered. Famous last words.
      - wiredfool 3y ago
        They're more engineered than a 6 story apartment building. (civil engineer by training, though never got a PE because startups)
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thangngoc89 3y ago

I’m also in Taipei. It’s the worst one ever I’ve felt in my life. Staying on the 7th floor with noway to escape in time is probably the worst feeling

komali2 3y ago
If it's any consolation, there's not really time to escape a collapsing building from any level, since the bottom floors usually are crushed first and near instantaneously. If you look at pictures from partially collapsed buildings in Hualian you can see that sometimes it's just the bottom floor that's destroyed and the remaining floors are fine for sometimes days or even until the building is manually taken down. The pictures of collapsed buildings after earthquakes are scary but the chance of an individual building collapsing are quite low, you're at far greater risk if you're outside near buildings because broken glass or similar could fall on you. The standard advice is good advice for a reason: stay inside, under sturdy furniture, on your elbows and knees, covering your head. You can learn more here: https://sf-fire.org/disaster-preparedness-information-resources https://sf-fire.org/disaster-preparedness-information-resour...
- LilBytes 3y ago
  I appreciate the context you're providing, but "Hey you'd be dead regardless of where you are in the building at the time if it collapses" isn't as reassuring as you'd think.
  - jfrbfbreudh 3y ago
    Read his comment again
- kijin 3y ago
  Any data on survivability of occupants of upper floors in cases where the bottom floor is destroyed and the rest of the building settles on top of the rubble instead of pancaking? This is exactly what happened with some apartment blocks in Japan earlier this year, too. I guess it depends a lot on whether the building stays upright or falls over, as there are plenty of objects that can crush a person in any space that suddenly turns sideways.

dev-jayson 3y ago

I'm in Taichung, it shook hard as hell but I don't think we took any damage comparing to Taipei or Hualien.

a_random_canuck 3y ago

I'm also living in central Taipei, this one woke me up, we felt really strong shaking in our flat on the 4th floor. Some tiles fell off the buildings on my street but otherwise everyone is fine. Right after the quake saw police and fire dept patrolling around.