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Formerly Tsing-kau-boe (Chinese: 前溝尾; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Chêng-kau-bóe). [1]Taibao City was established as Taibao Township in August 1945 after the World War II.In August 1946, Taibao Township was incorporated to Chiayi City to become Taibao District.
The epicenter was located in Dongshan District, Tainan City, near the border with Dapu, Chiayi County, 12 km (7.5 mi) north of Yujing and 38 km (24 mi) northeast of Tainan's city center. [1] It was reportedly the most powerful earthquake to strike the Tainan-Chiayi area since the 1964 Baihe earthquake , and the first large earthquake in the ...
Chiayi County borders Mount Yu to the east, Taiwan Strait to the west, Tainan City to the south and Yunlin County to the north. It spans over 1,903 km 2 (735 sq mi), about 5.35% of the area of Taiwan. Chiayi County is located along the Tropic of Cancer. [8]
Chiayi City is located on the north side of Chianan Plain, south west of Taiwan Island. On the east side is the Mount Ali , on the west side is the Chiayi Airport , on the north side is the Puzi River and on the south side is the Bazhang River .
The Chiayi–Tainan, Chianan or Jianan Plain (Chinese: 嘉南平原; pinyin: Jiānán Píngyuán), is an alluvial plain located at the central-southern region of western Taiwan. It is the largest plain of the island, [ 1 ] and lies in Tainan City and Chiayi County / Chiayi City , from which the name of the plain derived.
Country and location M w Depth (km) MMI Notes Casualties; Dead Injured; 1 [1] South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, South Sandwich Islands offshore 6.1 83.0 IV - - - 2 [2] China, Ningxia, 4 km (2.5 mi) west-southwest of Yinchuan: 4.8 10.0 VI Six people injured, 7,599 buildings damaged and railway services disrupted in Yinchuan. [3] [4 ...
The earthquake struck at 20:05 on Saturday 18 January 1964, affecting the heavily populated Chiayi-Tainan plain (Chianan Plain) area of central-southern Taiwan.The epicentre was near the town of Baihe, in northeastern Tainan County and at a focal depth of 20 km. [4] It was the most serious historical quake resulting from a rupture in the Chukou Fault (Chinese: 觸口斷層; pinyin: Chùkǒu ...
Module:Location map/data/Chiayi City is a location map definition used to overlay markers and labels on an equirectangular projection map of Chiayi City. The markers are placed by latitude and longitude coordinates on the default map or a similar map image.