A geological survey has discovered three new active faults in the Earth’s crust under Taiwan, bringing the total number of faults on Taiwan proper to 36.
A study in 2012 had recorded 33 faults.
The three newly discovered active faults are in Tainan, Kaohsiung and Nantou County, the survey results released last week by the Central Geological Survey (CGS) showed.
The CGS, which is overseen by the Ministry of Economic Affairs, defines an active fault as one that has moved within the past 100,000 years and could possibly move again.
According to the survey, the 21km Kousiaoli Fault in Tainan last moved 12,670 years
Taipei, Jan. 5 (CNA) A government geological survey has discovered three new active faults in Taiwan, bringing the total number of faults on the earthquake-prone island to 36.
Premier Su rules out rebuilding fourth nuclear power plant
04/01/2021 08:21 PM
Fourth nuclear power plant (CNA file photo)
Taipei, April 1 (CNA) Premier Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌) on Thursday categorically ruled out the possibility of rebuilding the mothballed Fourth Nuclear Power Plant, stressing that it cannot be and must not be rebuilt, despite an upcoming national referendum on the issue.
Su was quoted by Executive Yuan spokesman Lo Ping-cheng (羅秉成) when talking to reporters following a weekly Cabinet meeting, at which the premier was briefed by Hsu Yung-hui (許永輝), head of the Nuclear Power Division under state-run Taiwan Power Company (Taipower), on the controversial facility in New Taipei s Gongliao District.
Lessons of Fukushima must not be forgotten
By Tsai Ya-ying 蔡雅瀅
On Feb. 14, a magnitude 7.3 earthquake occurred off the coast of Japan’s Fukushima Prefecture. The fact that the Fukushima Dai-ichi and Fukushima Dai-ni nuclear power plants have been decommissioned, and the Onagawa, Tokai Dai-ni, Higashidori and Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plants are not operational might have prevented a nuclear accident.
Following the March 11, 2011, Tohoku earthquake, tsunami and resulting Fukushima nuclear disaster, Japan’s nuclear reactors were shut down in stages for safety checks. In June 2012, Japan for a while ran on zero nuclear power, which it did again for 11 months from September 2013.