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Mild ground motion hits Taiwan

 It was a large earthquake for the media, but we know that ground motion (pgv) in units of cm/sec is what counts.If you look at the picture of the one house that collapsed, you see a whole bunch of equally poorly constructed buildings that are okay.  That probably means that the pgv is only a few cm/sec.Taiwan has instruments everywhere, so we'll soon find out what it was.  An M7ish earthquake is

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