Taiwan Earthquake--Can You Help?
This is largest occurring in Taiwan,
and one of the very large
ones in history.
It is comparable to the 1906
earthquake in San Francisco.
More than 2,000 aftershocks have
hit Taiwan since the earthquake which,
at 7.6 on the open-ended Richter
scale at 1.47 a.m. Tuesday,
was more intense than the 7.4 tremor
that killed over 15,000 people
in Turkey last month.
"It is pictures, not words, that best describe what happened here."
BBC's Peter Biles reports. September 21, 1999
Many thanks to BBC and Yahoo! for providing pictures.