Traveler210

Earthquakes are very common in Taiwan as the island sits at the intersection of three tectonic plates. These plates are always moving and grinding together causing shaking and shifting and the occasional uplift. On one trip to the east coast of Taiwan there was a 6.2 early in the morning. The land jumped up and down so hard that the bed felt like it was bucking rodeo horse. This week there was another quake in the southern part of the country. Not much on the news, no reported deaths, that was good. But the fortune was with the people near the quake or should I say bad fortune. There was a typhoon in the region not too long ago and destroyed the local village in a mudslide. That is where the quake was the strongest. The village was abandoned since the typhoon. I remember the 1999 earthquake that hit central Taiwan as I mentioned in my last posting. the reason I bring this up is because I wanted to share a picture of a beautiful temple located at Sun Moon Lake near the epicenter of the ...