China News Service, Taiyuan, April 3 (Reporter Hu Jian) In the past hour, Song Yanyong, a native of Hualien, Taiwan, has never stopped calling. Living in Taiyuan, Shanxi, he is thinking about his family members in Hualien, and friends from all over the world are also thinking about him as a Hualien native.
According to the official measurement of the China Seismological Network, at 7:58 on April 3, a magnitude 7.3 earthquake occurred in the waters of Hualien County, Taiwan, with a focal depth of 12 kilometers.
Song Yanyong's sister works at a hospital in Hualien County, Taiwan. She goes to work at 8 o'clock every day. She was riding an electric bicycle on the road when the earthquake occurred. "When the earthquake happened, she felt the shaking was very serious. Like many Taiwanese people, they stopped on the road for about five or six minutes." Song Yanyong said that the hospital where her sister was located was less than 6 kilometers away from the sea, and the intensity she felt was particularly obvious. .
Immediately afterwards, Song Yanyong called his brother in Taipei and his sister in Kaohsiung. For more than an hour, he never stopped contacting his family. "At first, it may be that the earthquake interfered with the communication network, and we could not be contacted. Later, we were contacted one by one through phone calls. My family members are all safe."
Sitting in his office in Taiyuan, Shanxi, Song Yanyong looked at his phone and found that he had received nearly 20 greeting messages and phone calls in more than an hour, many of which were from friends he had made in mainland China. Song Yanyong was also touched by this concern. "Everyone knows that I am from Hualien, and they have asked me about my family situation early in the morning. I am really grateful to these mainland friends for their concern."
After receiving news that his family was safe, Song Yanyong began to contact friends and classmates in Hualien. "The mainland's news reports on the Hualien earthquake are also very complete, which makes it easier for Taiwanese like us in the mainland to learn about the aftermath of the earthquake at the first time." (End)