Performance of the NCREE's on‐site warning system during the 5 February 2016 Mw 6.53 Meinong earthquake

• Published in: Geophysical research letters Vol. 43; no. 17; pp. 8954 - 8959
• Main Authors: Hsu, Ting‐Yu, Wang, Hsui‐Hsien, Lin, Pei‐Yang, Lin, Che‐Min, Kuo, Chun‐Hsiang, Wen, Kuo‐Liang
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Washington John Wiley & Sons, Inc 16.09.2016; Wiley
• Subjects: Building damage; Buildings; Directivity; Early warning systems; Earthquake damage; Earthquake engineering; Earthquakes; Emergency communications systems; False alarms; Lead time; Meinong earthquake; NEEWS; on‐site earthquake early warning; Seismic activity; Seismic engineering

The National Center for Research on Earthquake Engineering in Taiwan has developed an on‐site earthquake early warning system (NEEWS). The Meinong earthquake with a moment magnitude of 6.53 and a focal depth of 14.6 km occurred on 5 February 2016 in southern Taiwan. It caused 117 deaths, injured 551...