{"id":63147,"date":"2024-04-07T19:00:04","date_gmt":"2024-04-07T10:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/07\/as-well-prepared-as-they-could-be-how-taiwan-kept-death-toll-low-in-massive-earthquake"},"modified":"2024-04-07T19:00:04","modified_gmt":"2024-04-07T10:00:04","slug":"as-well-prepared-as-they-could-be-how-taiwan-kept-death-toll-low-in-massive-earthquake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=63147","title":{"rendered":"\u2018As well prepared as they could be\u2019: how Taiwan kept death toll low in massive earthquake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The nation\u2019s emergency preparedness policies after a devastating quake in 1999 help to explain relatively small numbers of fatalities<\/p>\n<p>For Nina Huang, it was the shaking that jolted her awake. \u201cThe first thing I did when I woke up was to hold the cupboard next to my daughter. I was afraid that it might fall down on her,\u201d she recalled. Then her phone buzzed with a warning about a tsunami.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest fear for Huang and her husband was that the bridge connecting their waterfront village of Yanliao to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/05\/taiwan-earthquake-hualien-death-toll-injuries-impact\">the city of Hualien<\/a> would collapse, leaving them stranded.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/07\/as-well-prepared-as-they-could-be-how-taiwan-kept-death-toll-low-in-massive-earthquake\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The nation\u2019s emergency preparedness policies after a devastating quake in 1999 help to explain relatively small numbers of fatalitiesFor Nina Huang, it was the shaking that jolted her awake. \u201cThe first thing I did when I woke up was to hold the cupboar&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4193,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,263,1709,74,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-earthquakes","category-natural-disasters","category-taiwan","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4193"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63148,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63147\/revisions\/63148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}