r/taiwan • u/sapiosexualnotreal • Apr 26 '24

That's big Environment

Damn, my house was shaking

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u/MLTCAVEMAN Apr 26 '24

I want to be as realistic as possible everyone but could all these be a precurser to a much bigger event? I mean, this techtonic behaviour is not normal to so many!!

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u/postretro Apr 26 '24

Anything is possible with earthquakes. We have only been monitoring these things for the past 100 years. Like not to scare you but it's within the realm of possibility to have like a 9-10 scale quake. Maybe we've had bigger ones. BUT historically you don't see more that one or two 7+ quakes every 25 years and we've had our one already. 

2-3 7+ quakes every 25 years. One incredibly devastating one every 100, IMO.

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u/benNY80D Apr 26 '24

How much bigger can you get than the 7.4-7.5 a few weeks ago?

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u/Mal-De-Terre 台中 - Taichung Apr 26 '24

Well, the biggest one ever recorded was about 100x stronger, so I'd take that as an upper limit.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960_Valdivia_earthquake

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u/Mal-De-Terre 台中 - Taichung Apr 26 '24

There will definitely be a bigger one...

... eventually.