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Ep. 310 | The History of Taiwan (Part 1)

The China History Podcast

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Earthquakes in Taiwan

In Taiwan, it's had its share of some rather big earthquakes in 1935, 1946, 1951, 64, and in 2010. And just this morning, I woke up to news at the 6.8 earthquake in Taitong County in the southeast. It was marine geology and plate tectonics from more than a hundred million years ago, that placed Taiwan about 130 to 150 kilometers off the coast of Fujian province. Geologists have pegged the creation of Taiwan Island itself to about four to five million years ago.

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