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After the Kuomintang defeat in the Chinese Civil War and their subsequent flight to Taiwan in 1949, the Central Weather Bureau relocated from Mainland China to Taiwan. From 1958 onwards the Taiwan Provincial Weather Institution assumed responsibility for most of its functions.
The agency was originally established in December 1949 as the Central Military Commission Meteorological Bureau. It replaced the Central Weather Bureau formed in 1941. In 1994, the CMA was transformed from a subordinate governmental body into one of the public service agencies under the State Council .
Homepage of Weather Underground in English. Weather Underground of Hong Kong (Chinese: 香港地下天文台; pinyin: xiānggǎng dìxià tiānwéntái) is a non-profit website established in 1995 and directed by Clarence Fong Chi-kong. The website provides a wide range of information related to weather and climate.
TAIPEI (Reuters) -Two suspected Chinese weather balloons flew across the sensitive Taiwan Strait on Sunday but stayed well to the north of Taiwan, the island's defence ministry said on Monday, the ...
Seismic Intensity Scale [1] [2] [3]; Intensity Level (震度分級) Strong Ground Acceleration (cm/s 2,gal) Ground Speed (cm/s) What People Feel Effects Indoors Effects Outdoors
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Inside Taiwan the Central Weather Bureau is the organisation responsible for monitoring and reporting on earthquakes. Large earthquakes are also assessed by the United States Geological Survey . Scientific studies of the seismology of the island started in the Japanese era , when the first seismograph was installed in Taipei by Fusakichi Omori ...
TAIPEI (Reuters) -Taiwan's coast guard has said that it suspects a ship damaged an undersea communications cable over the weekend, but that bad weather prevented its personnel from boarding the ...