half a dozen big quakes

can't go a few hours without another one

@red where do you live again? Weren't you in the South?

never mentioned i was in the south, i'm in taipei

You felt it in Taipei wow

I have friends in Hualien and they were scared af

Do you live in a tall building?

can't imagine what it's like being there and feeling quakes every half hour

i guess? 10+ stories

felt like airplane turbulence

for the 6.4

Do you remember the big Tainan earthquake in February 2016?

the one where the shoddy building collapsed?

Yes with the oil cans inside the walls

yeah

not sure if i felt that one

I was riding a scooter in Changhua while it happened any my first thought was that the scooter must have had some defekt. I thought it was the suspension breaking or a flat tire or something

That was the first earth quake I ever experienced

No idea how you guys can live with that

I keep an emergency kit around

Taiwan #1 besides the quakes

i made it a long time ago but i think there's nonperishable food, thermal blanket, clothing, hand-crank radio + flashlight, and plastic wrap inside it

That's smart

Does everyone in Taiwan do that?

I try to mention it to people if the topic comes up

You should rebuild it, this time putting one of those hand crank phone chargers in there

it's a combo radio+flashlight that has a usb port

is it a listen-only radio or can you broadcast?

listen only

I imagine people are starting to want to build these kits if they haven't

maybe something to broadcast if you end up stuck in a building

i've seen all these graphics being passed around on line

about what to pack in a kit

yeah, order one of those baofeng radios

Can you upload such a graphic?

I was more thinking of a walkie talkie or something you can modify to broadcast on police frequencies

worst case they save you and arrest you because you illegally used their frequencies

lol

That's what the baofengs are

They're slightly not so pocketable radios

if everyone had that idea then the emergency frequencies would be unusable

what's the police frequency in Taiwan?

dunno

i'd rather just rely on my phone and have a charger

GSM is a little too fragile in case of emergency imho

huh?

Although you might have a GSM connection nearby, if you don't get a full pass-through to your provider's endpoint, it's unusable

as long as it's set up correctly you should be picking up at least one long range frequency from a backup tower

i don't have line on my PC or discord on my phone so

on the other hand, everyone can listen to radio as long as they are nearby

just search 地震包

地震 = earthquake?

I remember a while ago even in country Australia something took out a a large tower near me

yeah

earthquake bag

literelly earth shock, nice

I still got backup frequencies from nearby towers

learned a new word

Even if it was Edge

Pain

But still enough to call ems

some of those graphics sugget to put money into the bag

that's odd

i think you're referring to this one, which i saw on LINE https://pic.pimg.tw/hcm5499/4b90516d3c337.jpg

it just says "important valuables"

like your bank book and ID

>underpants

because you /will/ shit yourself

sorry my reading is not that good yet

yeah, underwear

especially traditional Chinese..

i added plastic wrap to mine

It's easy to tell from the graphics

because it's good for shitting in

if that need ever arises

Maybe duct tape would be a good addition

swiss army knife/multitool would be the best one

Tis good for patching up shit

there is a really nice duct tape in family mart that doesn't require a scissor because it's grooved

thats not standard duct tape?

Yeah I've got a roll of that

It's nonstandard here in shitholes like aust

aw

also if nobody's ever told you this uh

next time a quake hits turn off the gas

and open your main door

as in, entrance door

oh right you guys have gas

gas gas gas I'm gonna step on the gas

and another item on my "when moving to Taiwan" checklist

@Droidbot this is a very autistic convo anyway but to what degree do they go to implement redundancy for celluar towers? I remember every celluar tower (that's every network) in my town somehow failing at once and we were without service for a few hours

>not having coverage from several towers

I did have coverage from multiple towers

but somehow, they all died at the same time

every provider

I think even my landline died

rip landline

or maybe the NSA were installing a tap and nobody was any wiser <:tipsfedora:383326576609329162>

Such is the life of the Five Eyes

@red another one?