pjmedia.com It was a terrible quake that struck near Hualien City, Taiwan, just as the workday was beginning on Wednesday. Details aren’t yet complete but, so far, nine people have been reported killed, over a thousand more injured, and 152 trapped in damaged buildings, quarries, and other places.
At 7.4 on the Richter Scale, the Hualien shifter was three times more powerful and released 5.6 times more energy than the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake that dropped part of San Francisco’s elevated Embarcadaro freeway, killed 63 people, and injured 3,757 more.
“It was pretty scary,” a visiting American told NBC News. “In all the years that I’ve lived here and in Southern California before that, I’ve felt a lot of earthquakes, but this was by far the strongest and the most frightening.”
The disruptions to the global economy are still being sorted out, but quickly. Taiwan Semiconductor (TSMC) says they’re “still assessing” its chip fabrication plants but “expects to resume production overnight.” That’s good news, since TSMC is the world’s most advanced chipmaker, serving as the foundry for the highest-end chips used by Apple, Nvidia, AMD, and others.
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