| 英文摘要 |
The NCREE experienced many great achievements during 2008. In particular, we made much progress on our strategy to improve the seismic capacity of Taiwan's school buildings. One of the requirements of Taiwan's school buildings is that they have good lighting and ventilation. Sometimes, though, these requirements form 'soft spots' in the building's structure which makes them more susceptible to earthquakes. Recently, tens of thousands of students lost their lives when their school buildings collapsed in the 2005 earthquake in Kashmir, Pakistan and the 2008 earthquake in Wenchuan, China. During the 1999 Chi-Chi earthquake in Taiwan, a total of 293 school buildings, almost half of the school buildings in Nantou County, were seriously damaged or collapsed entirely as a result of the magnitude 7 earthquake. Had this earthquake hit during the day when the school buildings were full, many more lives would have been lost. |
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