Map
of Taiwan and Historic Seismicity
(created by the USGS)
Click on map to enlarge
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| City | Seismic Wave Arrival Time |
| New York | 18h 38min 42.1sec |
| San Francisco | 18h 32min 33.4sec |
| Sydney | 18h 15min 58.5sec |
| Moscow | 18h 17min 19.7sec |
| Beijing | 17h 54min 29.5sec |
| Santiago | 19h 2min 0.1sec |
| Cape Town | 18h 38min 4.5sec |
| Cairo | 18h 22min 25.0sec |
| Singapore | 17h 59min 37.3sec |
| London | 18h 27min 16.4sec |
Special Event
Page
September 20, 1999 - Taiwan Earthquake
The following are links
to sites, graphics or general information about the recent seismic event
in Taiwan and are contributed by the IRIS community.
Asian and Pacific Sites:
- CWB/USGS
data recorded by the Taiwan Central Weather Bureau (CWB) provided through
the USGS
- EXPLANATORY NOTE (updated Nov. 9, 1999)
- REPORT
#1 (as of 6 a.m., Sept. 22)
Prepared by W. H. K. Lee - REPORT
#2 (as of 12 p.m., Sept. 22)
Mainshock and early aftershocks; Near source accelerograms. Prepared by W. H. K. Lee - REPORT
#3 (Sept. 27, 1999)
2 Examples of Near-Source Accelerograms in digital files. Prepared by W. H. K. Lee -
REPORT
#4 (Oct. 1, 1999)
Tectonic Setting and Regional Geology of Taiwan. Prepared by J.G.Liou and L.Y.Hsiao, Stanford University -
REPORT
#5 (Oct. 1, 1999)
A Note on Historic and Quaternary Faults in Western Taiwan. Prepared by M.G.Bonilla, U.S.G.S. Open-File Report 99-447 - REPORT #6 A Review of Recently Active Faults in Taiwan, (Published in 1975).
- REPORT #7 A Preliminary Report on the 1999 Chi-Chi (Taiwan) Earthquake.
- University of TOKYO - Earthquake Research Institute, Japan, special page (English and Japanese)
- TAIWAN HEADLINES - a Taipei-based English-language online newspaper with information and articles about the earthquake and its aftermath.
- Photographs - University of Queensland, Australia
European Sites:
- ORFEUS - access to ORFEUS SPYDER® data - KNMI / The Netherlands
- BBC news site
- "The Morphology of Thrust Faulting in the 21 September 1999, Chichi, Taiwan Earthquake" - an article to be published in the Journal of Asian Earth Sciences next month. Free color reprints are available from the publisher by sending email to p.henn@elsevier.co.uk.
US Sites:
- Access to WILBER - browse seismograms, request SPYDER® data
- USGS Site - The information from the USGS National Earthquake Information Center, including a seismotectonic summary.
- Oklahoma Geological Survey - Spectrogram and seismograms
- Seismo-Watch
- Crustal Deformation Research - Roger Bilham, University of Colorado (click on 1999 Earthquakes)