yep

felt big

My Taiwan news source is super fast

it just hit like 30 seconds ago for me

bigger than yesterday's?

dunno, maybe smaller

significant swaying on my end

People in Tainan felt it

And you felt it in Taipei

so my guess would be around Hualien again

how fucking shit

another earthquake

is this the end of Taiwan? 😦

no need to guess. last 150 earthquakes are all from hualien

I didn't visit Ali Shan yet 😦

Taiwan can't break now 😦

And I also wanted to go to Kenting one more time 😦

Don't break Taiwan!

alright while we wait for the earthquake report let me guess the magnitude

5.2

Are you in Taiwan?

yeah. Taiwan ain't breaking anytime soon lol

where in Taiwan are you?

Hsinchu now

CWB's website is getting hammered, seems like

but living on the 13th floor doesn't help at all

http://www.cwb.gov.tw/V7e/earthquake/quake_index.htm

mag 5.7, it says

I was chatting with my gf's sister in Tainan and she felt it apparently

5.7 holy shit

so annoying. all the bigger earthquakes happen at midnight

http://www.cwb.gov.tw/index.htm is not loading for me anymore

give it a minute or two. im guessing everybody is refreshing that page right now

and I figured out a way to roughly estimate when the next 4.5 mag or higher earthquake will happen

after every 7~9 medium (3.5 ~4 ish) earthquake, there will be a significantly stronger one

after 40 mins passed after a 4.5 or larger earthquake without any smaller earthquakes, there will be another larger one

I know that a bunch of Italians are renting a lot of computing power in Lugano's super computing centre in an attempt to predict seismic activity

you should tell them your find 😄

Damn it where are the cali quakes

My find is based on 8 hours of data. its hardly reliable <:thenk:329322130804047872>

it loaded for me a few minutes ago

http://www.seismo.ethz.ch/de/home/

I went to a presentation of them

sick stuff they're doing

earth quakes are a huge energy source

imagine if we could absorb that

with your qt little island shaking like that, if we could absorb the energy, you could power your night markets for years

I think it's a super exciting field

and yet we know so little about it

nice pun, i saw that^

what pun?

`Super exciting field`

"field"

oh

not intentional, actually

why are Taiwanese people so depressive?

not depressive, just too laid back

"this is good enough"

etc.

i am too but i mean, that's just how it is

I mean is kinda true

If you're in a building that will collapse, then youre fucked already

depends on the strength of the earthquake, the building and your luck

you might just be trapped for a few days

you have like, 5 seconds to get out if the quake is large enough to seriously damage your building

Assuming you fall with the building and the building is not a 10+ story building or something like that

You might be trapped in the crashed building

a few bottles of water and a radio might save your life

are there anti earthquake building standards in taiwan?

yes, putting empty barrels of oil into the walls

hah

some of the best in the world if what i've been told is correct

but yeah, that too

@porco true, I have my abandoned building exploration bag ready for emergnecies

have you ever seen the Taipei 101s earthquake "defense" system?

you can take the lift up and see that huge ball

I went there once, was impressive

lmao giant red ball in the middle of the buiulding . sounds funny at first, but its an engineering masterpeice

lol

it actually is

I just wonder how much the suspensions actually help

I mean if the building starts moving

I was up at the observation deck during an earthquake once

that must have been super exciting

did the ball move?

i just wonder if you even felt anything

no i couldn't see any apparent moving

that one we could see is a model on display actually

yes the 101 is impressive

I just looked it up, the ball is the real ball. not a model on display.

but the bottom is supported by hydraulic stuff so it doesn't look like its moving

yes the hydraulic suspensions

I am just questioning their size compared to the size of the ball

its protection seems somewhat limited though

the hydraulic suspensions seem to be there to limit the movement of the ball so that it doesn't swing out of control

The ball may provide ample suspension from horizontal quakes but the same can't be said for quakes with a lot of vertical movement

if theres vertical movement shits fucked no matter what you do, thankfully thata pretty rare

another small quake right now.