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Taiwan is in circum-Pacific seismic belt, has frequent earthquakes, and loses lots of lives and fortunes. To understand history and features on earthquake, we try collecting and arranging the photos and materials to build a data base to be a basic reference for another searches.

In this atlas, we collect 448 photos and pictures which was taken from top 10 disastrous earthquakes in Taiwan during 1898 ~ 1997 when we have had monitoring system. And, top 10 disastrous earthquake are:

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1904/11/06 Douliou
Earthquake

1906/03/17 Meishan
Earthquake

1916/08/28 Nantou
Earthquakes series

1935/04/21 Hsinchu – Taichung
Earthquake

1941/12/17 Chungpu
Earthquake

1946/12/05 Shinhua
Earthquake

1951/10/22 Rift Valley
Earthquakes series

1959/08/15 Hengchuen
Earthquake

1964/01/18 Baihe
Earthquake

1986/11/15 Hualien
Earthquake

1904

Douliou Earthquake

1904/11/06 04:25

Epicenter23.575°N, 120.250°E
Depth7.0 km
MagnitudeM_L 6.1

1906

Meishan Earthquake

1906/03/17 06:43

Epicenter23.550°N, 120.450°E
Depth6.0 km
MagnitudeM_L 7.1

1916

Nantou Earthquakes series

1916 ~ 1917

Date / Time	Epicenter (N, E)	Depth	M_L
1916/08/28 15:27	24.000, 121.025	45.0 km	6.8
1916/11/15 06:31	24.100, 120.875	3.0 km	6.2
1917/01/05 00:55	24.000, 120.975	很淺	6.2
1917/01/07 02:08	23.950, 120.975	很淺	5.5

1935

Hsinchu – Taichung Earthquake

1935/04/21 06:02

Epicenter24.350°N, 120.817°E
Depth5.0 km
MagnitudeM_L 7.1

1941

Chungpu Earthquake

1941/12/17 03:19

Epicenter23.400°N, 120.475°E
Depth12.0 km
MagnitudeM_L 7.1

1946

Shinhua Earthquake

1946/12/05 06:47

Epicenter23.070°N, 120.330°E
Depth5.0 km
MagnitudeM_L 6.1

1951

Rift Valley Earthquakes series

1951/10/22 ~ 11/25

Date / Time	Epicenter (N, E)	Depth	M_L
1951/10/22 05:34	23.875, 121.725	4.0 km	7.3
1951/10/22 11:29	24.075, 121.725	1.0 km	7.1
1951/10/22 13:43	23.825, 121.950	18.0 km	7.1
1951/11/25 02:47	23.100, 121.225	16.0 km	6.1
1951/11/25 02:50	23.275, 121.350	36.0 km	7.3

1959

Hengchuen Earthquake

1959/08/15 16:57

Epicenter21.700°N, 121.300°E
Depth20.0 km
MagnitudeM_L 7.1

1964

Baihe Earthquake

1964/01/18 20:04

Epicenter23.200°N, 120.600°E
Depth18.0 km
MagnitudeM_L 6.3

1986

Hualien Earthquake

1986/11/15 05:20

Epicenter23.992°N, 121.833°E
Depth15.0 km
MagnitudeM_L 6.8

The positions of epicenter are cited by results of researches and reports, for example: Douliou Earthquake in 1904 was cited by Y. T. Yeh (1997), Meishan Earthquake in 1916 was cited by S. N. Tzeng (1997), Hsinchu – Taichung Earthquakes series was cited by Taipei Seismic station (1936) and M. T. Shiu (1989), Chungpu Earthquake in 1941 was cited by S. N. Tzeng (1996), Shinhua Earthquake in 1946 was cited by S. N. Tzeng (1995) and Y. T. Yeh (1989), Rifts Valley Earthquakes Series in was cited by Cheng et al.(1996) and S. N. Tzeng (1997), Hengchuen Earthquake in 1959 and Baihe Earthquakes was cited by M. T. Shiu (1980) and S. N. Tzeng & Y. T. Yeh (1989), Hualien Earthquake in 1986was cited by TTSN. Magnitudes of all earthquakes are change from Y. T. Yeh (1995) to Richter scale (Near-seismic Scale).

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