Preliminary Report of the CERI Reconnaissance Team on the Effects of the JiJi, Taiwan Earthquake

Table of Contents

Slide 1: Preliminary Report of the CERI Reconnaissance Team on the Effects of the JiJi, Taiwan Earthquake

Slide 2: The JiJi earthquake of 21 September, 1999

Slide 3: Geology, active faults, and background seismicity in West Central Taiwan

Slide 4: CERI study area

Slide 5: First story collapse at Tungshih

Slide 6: Compressional faulting and vertical uplift NW of Tungshih

Slide 7: Faulting NE of Tungshih

Slide 8: Emergency housing for victims at Tungshih

Slide 9: Bridge damage east of Shih-kang dam

Slide 10: Surface rupture of the Chelungpu fault at Shih-kang and Tungshih

Slide 11: Principal faults near Shih-kang

Slide 12: Thrust block of Shih-kang area

Slide 13: Secondary faulting south of Shih-kang dam

Slide 14: First story collapse in Shih-kang

Slide 15: Second Shih-kang fault north of Tachia River

Slide 16: Failure on north end of Shih-kang dam

Slide 17: Shih-Kang dam before and after

Slide 18: Second fault damage in Shih-Kang

Slide 19: Primary thrust of the Chelungpu fault north of the Tachia River

Slide 20: Primary thrust of the Chelungpu fault through the floodplain in Shih-Kang

Slide 21: Primary thrust through a gravel bar north of Shih-kang

Slide 22: Shih-kang west bridge collapse

Slide 23: Primary thrust of the Chelungpu fault through Shih-kang

Slide 24: Building damage in Shih-kang along the main thrust of the Chelungpu fault

Slide 25: Damage in SW Shih-kang

Slide 26: Damage and faulting in Taichung and Wufeng

Slide 27: First story building collapse in Taichung City

Slide 28: Chelungpu fault at Kuanghu elementary school in Wufeng

Slide 29: Damage at Kuanghu elementary school in Wufeng

Slide 30: Faulting and building damage in Wufeng

Slide 31: Damage and thrust faulting in Wufeng

Slide 32: Bridge damage south of Wufeng

Slide 33: CERI study area

Slide 34: Faulting at Tsaotun

Slide 35: Building collapse at Tsaotun

Slide 36: Chushan faulting and damage

Slide 37: CERI study area

Slide 38: Damage at Puli

Slide 39: Puli basin and damaged school

Slide 40: The CERI Reconnaissance Team in Taiwan

Email: patterson@ceri.memphis.edu

Home Page: www.ceri.memphis.edu

Other information:
This presentation is part of a preliminary report of the field investigations of the CERI team studying the aftereffects of the JiJi earthquake, Taiwan, 1999.

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