“I still think about the quake and to me, Sept. 21 is my birthday because me and my brother were reborn on that day,” one survivor said
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The Taiwan earthquake of 1999, also known as the Chi-Chi earthquake or the 921 earthquake, left more than 2,400 people dead and 100,000 more without homes
“Ten years on, I am still afraid of earthquakes,” a survivor said
The disaster marked a major turning point in how the government and the island prepared for natural disasters and maintained building codes, experts said
On this day 27 years ago, a devastating earthquake killed thousands in Taiwan in 1999 and became a turning point in how the island…
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