Introduction
Taiwan is located on the plate boundary where Philippine Sea Plate collides with Eurasian Plate with a very high plate convergence rate of 8.0 cm/year (Yu et al. 1999; Fig. 1). Nearly 18,000 seismic events occur around Taiwan and the vicinity every year (Wu et al. 2008). Some of the destructive earthquakes caused large casualties, such as the 1906, ML = 7.1 Meishan earthquake (1,258 death); the 1935, ML = 7.1 Hsinchu-Taichung earthquake (3,276 death); and the 1999, ML = 7.3 Chi-Chi earthquake (2,455 death). Earthquake is one of the most serious disasters in Taiwan. Therefore, it is important to seek scientific resolutions to alleviate earthquake hazards.
Distribution of the real-time strong-motion stations (squares) of the Central Weather Bureau (CWB) and sample virtual subnetwork (VSN) with 60-km radius from the earthquake early warning (EEW) system. Stars show epicenters of the four major damage earthquakes
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Wu, YM., Hsiao, NC., Chin, TL., Chen, DY., Chan, YT., Wang, KS. (2013). Earthquake Early Warning System in Taiwan. In: Beer, M., Kougioumtzoglou, I., Patelli, E., Au, IK. (eds) Encyclopedia of Earthquake Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36197-5_99-1
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