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Six people who had been trapped in a mining area were rescued by helicopter Thursday morning.<\/p>\n
Twenty-six of about 50 hotel workers traveling to a resort in Taroko National Park have been found, Reuters reported, citing Taiwan\u2019s fire department. The fire department showed drone footage of other hotel workers waving from the side of a road, near a minibus that had been crushed in the back.<\/p>\n
Rail service to the Hualien area was also restored Thursday.<\/p>\n
Wednesday\u2019s earthquake was the strongest to hit Taiwan since 1999, when a 7.6-magnitude tremor killed about 2,400 people, said Wu Chien-fu, director of Taiwan\u2019s Seismological Center.<\/p>\n
Taiwan authorities have taken major steps to improve earthquake preparedness and response since then, said Daniel Aldrich, director of the Resilience Studies Program at Northeastern University in Boston.<\/p>\n
That includes \u201ctop-down\u201d measures like a strict enforcement of building codes, he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019ve also organized a number of \u2018bottom-up\u2019 responses, so making sure individual residents know what to do,\u201d Aldrich said. \u201cWhere\u2019s the evacuation shelter? What do I do? Where do I go?\u201d<\/p>\n
The result, he said, is far fewer casualties in Taiwan than have been reported in earthquakes of similar strength in places such as Haiti, India and China.<\/p>\n
The lessons of the \u201ctop-down, bottom-up\u201d approach to disaster management can be applied around the world, Aldrich said, including in the United States, where he said planning in earthquake-prone places such as California could be improved.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn many ways, the disaster\u2019s outcome is not the function of the disaster, per se, but about the situation in the country before it happened,” he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Jennifer Jett is the Asia Digital Editor for NBC News, based in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Andy Yeh and Reuters contributed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n[ad_2]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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