Earthquake in Taiwan

It's pretty wild when the ground starts shaking.

Dick Cheney's Earthquake Machine!

Wow that first vid sucks. Wish it'd hit the PRC headquarters instead of the good Chinese (Taiwan).

Brutal, I'll be the death toll will hit between 3 and 10k. Or worse.

This is pretty cool

Let's Talk About All the Ways People Didn't Die in That Taiwan Earthquake

pjmedia.com

My favorite story might be the bit of architectural genius hidden inside the capital city's massive Taipei 101 skyscraper. The building — currently the 11th tallest in the world — soars nearly 1,700 feet (508 French yards) straight up, sits just 660 feet away from a Pacific Rim fault line, and, yes, the people who built it understood just how dangerous that location could be.

That's why inside Taipei 101 hangs a massive pendulum — technically, a tuned mass damper — between the 88th and 92nd floors. The 728-ton steel sphere translates motion caused by high winds and earthquakes into steadying countermotions as it is rocked back and forth. It's the largest and most expensive ($4 million) tuned mass damper in the world.

In the photo atop this report, you can see a much smaller building that didn't survive the quake. But what it didn't do was collapse and kill everyone inside. Instead, the structure remained mostly intact, allowing rescue workers to pull people out using what looks much like a fire engine ladder.

In fact, most of the injuries seemed to have occurred outside of Taiwan's cities. Engineers can suspend a 728-pendulum hundreds of feet up to protect a skyscraper, but there isn't much to be done in advance for quarry workers. They have to be where the rocks are.

I wish their massive semiconductor manufacturing area would get leveled.

China wouldn't give a fuck about them then, and maybe we could start making the most advanced chips in the world here again.

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