The 921 earthquake, 7.6 at the Richter scale, occurred on September 21, 1999 in Chi-Chi, Nantou County, Taiwan. It claimed 2,444 lives, injured 11,305. More than 51,000 homes collapsed and 53,768 were severely damaged. To mark the 10th anniversary of this tragic event, the National Science and Technology Center for Disaster Reduction (NCDR) and the National Center for Research on Earthquake Engineering (NCREE), in collaboration with the National Science Council, co-hosted an international conference in Taipei from September 17-19, 2009. The conference looked at the five main areas of innovation in earthquake science, earthquake engineering, social economy, emergency rescue and emergency medicine. It also sought to answer many questions: What has humankind leat from the disaster? Is Taiwan safer from earthquakes a decade on? Moreover, it looked at what could possibly be the biggest breakthrough in the history of earthquake research: earthquake prediction methods. Over 180 papers from the United States, Japan, Canada, New Zealand, France, India, Britain, Korea, Malaysia and Taiwan dealt with the above-mentioned areas at the conference.
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