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Highways & Byways: Memories of a deadly earthquake
A 6.4 magnitude earthquake struck Tainan in the early hours of Feb. 6, 2016. Here is an account of the shaking and aftermath
By Steven Crook / Contributing reporter
The fingers on both hands aren’t enough to count the seriously frightening tremors I’ve experienced in my 29 years in Taiwan.
The scariest was the 921 Earthquake, which shook the entire country in the early hours of Sept. 21, 1999. The second most terrifying was the earthquake that woke me and countless other Tainan residents up before dawn on Feb. 6, 2016.
Tomorrow will be the fifth anniversary of the disaster, which killed 117 people, all but two of them in a single apartment complex.