🇹🇼 UPDATE: Experiencing a 6.1 Earthquake in Taiwan! 在台灣體驗到了6.1的大地震 (Chinese Translation inside) 🇹🇼

I just experienced my second earthquake in Taiwan at 11:56 PM today. The rating on the charts say that the earthquake is 6.1. Just two days ago, I sat through my first earthquake. I've been staying in a house that is on the 15th floor, so you can totally feel the whole building moving. It feels like a swaying motion.

Even though this Earthquake is considered pretty large, we are lucky that the plates are not directly underneath us. If it were, I'm pretty sure we would see more than just the walls moving.

Earthquakes are quite common in Taiwan. Earthquakes are caused by tectonic plates moving. It is more common to experience earthquakes where there are volcanic mountains. I am currently staying in Taipei. My family lives only 15 minutes away from a volcanic mountain, called Datun Mountain. The volcano is still alive and smoking.

We are lucky, that this earthquake was not caused by the volcanic mountain. This earthquake was caused by the tectonic plates moving in the ocean, which is a little further away from Taipei. They are unsure of the effects this earthquake will have on the activities of the active volcano.

This was such an unusual experience to be a part of, and I'm glad everyone in Taiwan is safe... although I just learned of an old building crashing down. No one was harmed. If you would like to see the building that fell, you can check it out here. Sorry it's on FB!

Feel free to share below on unusual situations you have been in.

(edit: Since this posting, I've experienced 2 more tremors... wow!)

---

Translated by my cousin in Chinese!

剛剛，也就是在11:56的時候，我的手機顯示了地震警示6.1級。兩天前，我才剛剛經歷了生平第一次的地震。那個時候我剛好在15樓的親戚家裡，所以能夠完全感受到地震的搖晃。

既使，6.1級的地震被視為非常大的地震，我們還是必須要慶幸這樣的地震只是經由海底的版塊位移所引起的，而且板塊並非就在台北市底下，否則恐怕會有嚴重的災情。

地震在台灣是很平常的一件事，切往往是經由板塊位移所造成的。然而在台北，有時候的地震，恐怕可能是由大屯火山群所造成的，我現在所住的親戚家就位於大屯火山群不到15分鐘的距離。大屯火山群，依舊為活火山，一切只是沈睡中。

因此我們必須要非常的慶幸，這幾次的地震不是由火山所造成的，而是由海底板塊推擠所造成的，震央離台北市也有一段距離。然而，雖然地震並沒有造成任何傷亡，但是，專家們還是不確定，這樣的地震會不會影響台北市大屯火山群。

總之，這樣特別的經驗也成了這段旅成的有趣經驗，也很慶幸除了我以外，所有的台灣人能夠安全度過。我期望在跟各位分享這份特別的經艷的同時，各位若是有類似或其他特別的經驗，也可以在我的blog的底下做留言。謝謝。

---

Love,

Karen