TAIPEI – Taiwan on Wednesday marked 23 years since the deadly Chi-Chi or “Jiji” earthquake unleashed a wave of destruction that killed more than 2,400 people and upended the way the East Asian democracy approaches disaster management and prevention.
Measuring in at a magnitude of 7.3, the earthquake hit central Taiwan’s Chi-Chi Township around 2 a.m. local time on September 21, 1999, unleashing a wave of force th