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Quake hits home for students
■ Earthquake rocks Taiwan,
causing students’ concern
for their families
By Edward Yuen
Oregon Daily Emerald
After Tuesday morning’s
earthquake on the island of Tai
wan, communication and traffic
to and from the epicenter were
interrupted. Unfortunately, it
had a direct effect on many stu
dents at the University.
Some Taiwanese students here
are worried about their relatives
at home and tried to contact
them when they heard about the
damage.
Berlinda Lee, a sophomore ma
joring in business and Japanese
who hails from Taiwan’s capital
Taipei, tried to call home after
hearing about the quake. The
telephone lines, however, were
busy, and she was unable to get
through for 10 hours.
“I talked to my mom, and they
are all OK,” Lee said. She said
the bank building in front of her
uncle’s house was wrecked in
the earthquake, and although her
family survived, she said she is
still worried.
The epicenter of the devastat
ing earthquake was in Chichi, a
town in Nantou County in cen
tral Taiwan. According to news
reports out of Hong Kong and
Taiwan, most of the damage is in
Puli, Chushan, Tsaotun and
Chichi, towns surrounding the
epicenter.
Some worried students ob
tained information from media
sources in America or from on
line information sources from
Taiwan, as well as by contacting
their families by phone.
Sophomore Jennifer Hwang, a
pre-business major who is also
from Taipei, watched news re
ports and obtained other infor
mation from Taiwanese newspa
pers on the Internet, in addition
to calling home.
Luckily, Hwang learned from
her parents that nothing special
happened at her home or her
grandmother’s.
Jessica Sung, a freshman ma
joring in pre-journalism from
Kaohsiung, called home and dis
covered that her family was not
injured in the quake. Her grand
mother lives in Chiai, a city
about 50 miles away from
Chichi. Chiai sustained mini
mum damage.
Sung learned from her family
that some of the roads in the
Taichung area were damaged in
the quake. She also said train ser
vice between Taipei and Tainan
is interrupted because the rails
were broken in the quake. Flight
service is still continuing after
the earthquake, but power out
ages happen frequently at the air
port.
Eric Yin, a junior majoring in
marketing, came back from
Taipei on Tuesday, the day of the
quake, and said electricity to the
area north of Nantou County was
sporadic. He added that tele
phone services are normal with
in the country, but heavy incom
ing, long-distance calls caused
constant busy signals after the
earthquake.
Due to busy signals and exces
sive damage, people such as
Lane Community College sopho
more Jonathan Yeh are still un
able to contact their loved ones
after the quake. What he knows
from others is that the roads are
closed, some bridges collapsed
and buildings taller than six sto
ries were brought down in the
earthquake.
Hong Kong newspapers report
ed the power supply to two
thirds of the people in northern
Taiwan was restored by late
Tuesday, but Taiwan Power Cor
porations said it will be weeks
before all normal operations will
resume.
More than 2,000 people were
killed in the earthquake, which
measured 7.6 on the Richter
scale, and more than 2,600 peo
ple are believed to be trapped un
der the rubble. Nearly 500 people
are reported missing.
Three aftershocks, which were
reported as a 6.8, 6.8 and 6.0, re
spectively, occurred on Wednes
day. A third 6.8-Richter scale af
tershock shook the island on
Sunday.
The Taiwanese government
has decided to cancel all the
celebrations of the mid-autumn
festival and the Double-10 Day,
the national day of the Repub
lic of China, in order to mourn
for the dead in the earthquake.
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