Earthquake Simulation and Music Concert!

This second day at Beimen Elementary School, there's something happen with people here. It's around 08.25 the kids came out from school building after hiding from their table and gathered in front of school's yard. Some teachers using vest, and Mr.Chen from took a note how long it will take the kids to get on the field. It's such kind of earthquake simulation for children at school because in the past there's severe earthquake that damaged many buildings in Tainan. So, every beginning of the semester in Beimen Elementary School they do some earthquake simulation.

Taiwan is in a seismically active zone, on the Pacific Ring of Fire, and at the western edge of the Philippine Sea Plate.^[1] Geologists have identified 42 active faults on the island, but most of the earthquakes detected in Taiwan are due to the convergence of the Philippine Sea plate and the Eurasian Plate to the east of the island.^[1][2] Most of the earthquakes registered in Taiwan actually occur off the east coast and cause little damage, whereas smaller quakes beneath the island itself have historically proven more destructive. The first recorded earthquake in Taiwan was in 1624, the founding year of Dutch Formosa.^[3] Between 1901 and the year 2000 there were 91 major earthquakes in Taiwan, 48 of them resulting in loss of life.^[4] The most recent major earthquake was the 921 Earthquake, which struck on September 21, 1999, and claimed 2,415 lives. - from wikipedia.

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Today, I join music class with children from grade 5, so after school ends, music teacher ask me to attend her daughter's music concert at Tainan City. That's awesome! They played Windwood Quintet in old building at Tainan (honestly I forget the building's name). Really enjoy this night~

beautiful-old building

this place also provide a small restaurant

nice play

at the back of building