Taiwan Earthquake--Can You Help?
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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.
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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.
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"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.