The County territory is massive with a large population. There are countless buildings and public constructions crowded into urban areas. While, in the country side, there are mountains and hills that lie beside the sea. There have been many diverse fires, floods, landslides and mountaineer accidents in the past. We hereby list major disasters in the County in recent years into a table, as follows:
ster | Time | Location | Degree |
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CPC gas pipe explosion | 84.02.02 February 2, 1995 | Banqiao City | 11 people injured |
Herb Typhoon Flood | 85.08.01 August 1, 1996 | Banqiao City | 5 meter deep flood |
Lincoln Dajun Community Landslide | August 18, 1997 | Xizhi City | 28 deaths, 50 injuries |
Tiantai Commercial Building Fire | January 10, 1998 | Sanzhong City | 49 injuries |
Cihmin Nursery Center fire | January 15, 1998 | Zhonghe City | 11 deaths, 10 injuries |
Zeb Typhoon flood | Oct. 15, 1998 | Xizhi City | 6 meter deep flood |
Babs Typhoon flood | October 25, 1998 | Xizhi City | 4 meter deep flood |
Wugu waste yard collapse | October 18, 1998 | Wugu Township | 7 deaths, 9 injuries |
Sanjhih landslide | October 26, 1998 | Sanzhi Township | 3 deaths |
Boshihdejia Building collapse in the 921 Earthquake | September 21, 1999 | Xinzhuang City | 38 deaths, 7 missing and 730 injuries |
Xangsane typhoon flood | October 31, 2000 | Xizhi City | 7 meter deep flood |
Rueifang landslide | November 1, 2000 | Ruifang Town | 7 deaths, 1 missing, 4 injuries |
Shihmen landslide | November 1, 2000 | Shimen Township | 2 deaths, 2 injuries |
Orient Scientific Industrial Park Fire | May 12, 2001 | Xizhi City | Billions of dollars in property lost |
Landslide on Taipei-YiLan Highway | June 7, 2001 | Xindian City | 5 deaths |
Danshuei Landslide | September 5, 2001 | Danshui Town | 5 deaths, 24 injuries |
Nari typhoon flood | September 15, 2001 | Xizhi City , Ruifang Town , Shuangxi Township etc. | 24 deaths, 5 missing, 80 injuries |
March 31 Earthquake | March 31, 2002 | Xinzhuang City , Tucheng City , Zhonghe City etc. | Notice: there were 223 building, and 28 dangerous buildings |
Dasishih building fire | August 31, 2003 | Dasishih Community, Minzu Rd. Luzhou City | 13 deaths, 71 injuries |
Avery typhoon | August 23, 2004 | Sanzhong City , Xinzhuang City | 2 deaths, 2 injuries, flooding of over 180 hectares and 18,000 residences in Sanzhong City and Xinzhuang City due to improper MRT construction |
911 flood and Haima typhoon | September 11, 2004 | Sanzhong City , Xizhi City | 2 deaths, 2 injuries, flooding of over 400 hectares and 7,740 residences in Xinzhuang City and Xizhi City |
Nock-Ten Typhoon | October 25, 2004 | Shuangxi Township , Gongliao Township , Ruifang Town , Xizhi City | 3 deaths, 1 injury, flooding of over 2200 hectares and about 5860 residences in Shuangxi Township , Gongliao Township , Ruifang Town , Xizhi City |
May 15 downpour | May 15, 2005 | Xinzhuang City , Sanzhong City | Xinzhuang Area (flooding of 200 hectares and about 4000 residences) and |
Sinlaku Typhoon | Sep 12, 2008 | New Taipei City | 7 injury |
Jangmi Typhoon | Sep 27, 2009 | New Taipei City | 16 injury |
Morakot Typhoon | Aug 8, 2009 | New Taipei City | 12 injury |
Fanapi Typhoon | Sep 17, 2010 | New Taipei City | 29 injury |
Megi Typhoon | Oct 21, 2010 | New Taipei City | 1 injury |
0611 Heavy rain disaster | June 11,2012 | New Taipei City | 5 deaths, 6 injury |
Sura typhoon | July 30, 2012 | New Taipei City | 2 deaths, 10 injury |
Suli typhoon | July 11,2013 | New Taipei City | 1 deaths, 38 injury |
Madam typhoon | July 21, 2014 | New Taipei City | 4 injury |
Revival crash | February 04,2015 | Nangang District, Taipei City and New Taipei City, Keelung river junction Xizhi | 43 deaths, 15 injury |
Eight Immortals dust gas explosion | June 27, 2015 | Bali District Eight Immortals Park | 499 injury |
Chang hung typhoon | July 09,2015 | New Taipei City | 2 injury |
Sudi Le typhoon | August 06, 2015 | New Taipei City | 2 deaths, 10 injury |
Swan typhoon | August 22,2015 | New Taipei City | 0 injury |