Hualien Earthquake Taiwan 🇹🇼 (2024-04-03) narrated

7.2 Magnitude Hualien Earthquake
Earthquake No. 113019, (2024-04-03) Taiwan

Footage in this video is mostly from Hualien County, New Taipei City and Taipei City.
On April 3, 2024, Taiwan was jolted by a powerful earthquake that sent shockwaves across the island. The earthquake of magnitude 7.2 struck in Hualien County Taiwan on April 03, 2024 at 07:58 o’clock in the morning (local time). With a magnitude ranging from 7.2 to 7.4 on the Richter scale, it stands as the most potent seismic event to strike Taiwan in a quarter-century. The epicenter of this calamity lay just off the eastern coast of Taiwan, near Hualien County, a region predisposed to such natural upheavals due to its precarious positioning along tectonic fault lines.

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:12 Bridges
02:35 Buildings
09:32 Inside buildings
13:51 Mountains
18:51 Railway infrastructure
19:28 Roads
23:42 Bodies of water
25:58 Outtro

May this compilation of earthquake impression videos help you to understand the impact of such a natural disaster on people, infrastructure and the nature. Civil engineers in particular are reminded to perform there job diligently to minimize economic damage and the number of casualties and fatalities under the population.
Decades of learning from disasters, tightening building codes and increasing public awareness may have helped Taiwanese people better weather strong quakes.
Thanks go to all first responders and professional rescue personnel who worked hard in the aftermath of the earthquake. Condolences go to those who lost a friend or family member in the disaster.
Thanks to all people who contributed imagery of the earthquake. Note to the amateur camera people: Please try filming in landscape mode at the next event. It is more appealing to those outside the world of TikTok and Instagram.

Credits:
People of the general public via social media
Central Weather Administration (Taiwan)
Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
National Science and Technology Center for Disaster Reduction (Taiwan)
Music: Ballerina by Yehezkel Raz
Voice: Andrew from FreeTTS

Links:
Earthquake report
https://www.cwa.gov.tw/V8/E/E/EQ/EQ113019-0403-075809.html
https://geofon.gfz-potsdam.de/eqinfo/event.php?id=gfz2024gnxm
News
https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/search?keyword=hualien+earthquake
Seismic Resistant Viaduct Design for the Taiwan High Speed Rail Project
https://www.lusas.com/case/bridge/taiwan.html
Same video without narration
https://youtu.be/Tvqn_lj1f_Y

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