The piece begins in 1995 when a college-aged Taiwanese-American adoptee visits her birthplace, Ji-an, Hualien in Taiwan, looking for answers, and goes missing after a typhoon.
Mr. Peng grew up as the son of a carpenter in Hualien, on Taiwan's mountainous east coast.
The quake hit 13 miles north of Hualien, a coastal city of around 100,000 people, collapsing buildings and buckling roads.
I can't speak Chinese and had no way of communicating with most of the baseball players, so Eric graciously agreed to translate my interviews this way from Hualien, a small town in Northeast Taiwan.
One unidentified man died after being swept off a beach in the eastern county of Hualien late Thursday and a soldier on an island in the Taiwan Strait fell into the sea while fishing.
To simulate the soil profile and dynamic soil properties of the Hualien site, a series of resonant column (RC) tests was performed to determine the model soil preparation conditions, such as the compaction density and the ratio of soil gravel contents.
Typhoon Longwang passed Hualien as a category 4-equivalent.
Hualien City, a geographically secluded city in eastern Taiwan, had nine pediatric cases, all mild.
Eighty seven elderly volunteers, aged 65 years or older, were enrolled into this study between January and December 2012, at a medical center in Hualien, eastern Taiwan.
A stronger ShakeMap pattern can be observed between Yilan and Hualien in case A compared to that in case B. This might be due to the topographic effect which could cause amplified ground motion at tops and ridges of mountain (Lee et al., 2009).
