Went with my mom and dad to the 921 Earthquake Museum in Taichung on Saturday. Like most museums, it was an eye opener of what happened on 9/21/1999.
At 1:47 a.m. on September 21, 1999, Taiwan experienced a violent 7.3 magnitude earthquake that devastated Nantou and Taichung counties, claiming 2,321 lives and injuring more than 8,000, with financial losses in the billions of NT dollars. This was the largest natural disaster in a century. To commemorate those who were killed and injured in this disaster and to encourage the government and public to develop improved disaster preparedness and disaster relief measures, all sectors of society expressed the need for an earthquake museum or memorial hall.
http://www.nmns.edu.tw/nmns_eng/04exhibit/permanent/921.html
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- Bridge entrance into the museum
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- Giant Richter Scale
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- Museum is built inside a middle school
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- Chelung Fault Gallery
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- Shifted Earth from the quake
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- Track that has been uplifted
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- Classrooms
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- Crazy
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- Collapsed Classrooms
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- Derailed
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- Collapsed Classrooms on both sides
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- Collapsed Classrooms
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- The Track Stadium
