More like a survival strategy. It’s what you get from living in the fourth world. You gotta be self reliant and ready for the worst.
I was gonna go with trauma, but that works. 
I am not so much afraid of quakes but heck I get the flashbacks around helicopters. Quakes can be survived, it is the aftermath that can get ugly. Luckily for us here in Taiwan they are pretty organized. Look at how well they handed the tsunami warnings. Last time it was chaos, now they had the Emergency Center up and running, observation crews, cops trying to get people out of the water…
Bit unusual.
Tourism in Taiwan is the in the pits right now. That pic says it all. Brutal.
Was up in Alishan area a few weeks back (one of Taiwan’s prime tourist spots), from talking to vendors and observing it was already a washout BEFORE the last two weeks. Many people going overseas. Tourism probably hasn’t been this bad for 15 years or more I guess. Many local small vendors are hurting.
Instead of the stupid cash handout plan moving forward, maybe the government could have incentivized some local tourism.
Then again the aftermath of the earthquakes in Hualien plus the brutal rains in the south have not exactly helped the situation . . .
Guy
Now, if the tourist industry upped their game so you would get your money ‘s worth, instead of lobbying to get “caged” customers from China.
I mean, average room is 1000 to 5000 NTD on the East Coast, unless you’re staying in say Yilan Silk Palace for 12k a night.
Options are few and expensive for what you get.
Shaking in Taipei.
Felt something in Neihu Taipei
Now then
Nada. 
Dulan .
New Taipei City
didn’t feel anything in Songshan district, taipei…
Little shaking. Xizhi. Probably aftershocks from the Yilan one the other day.
USGS marked it at 4.8, and recognized no other quake in the area. This one at almost 21km deep, and I’ve noticed most of the Hualien area quakes are only around 10 km deep…
In my opinion, that’s always the issue in Taiwan. Beautification, maintenance and quality planning seems to lack. If they could build the infrastructure to both allow for aesthetic beauty (not an electrical tower or garbage pile built right in front of the 1 in a million view…that’s the difference between Taiwan think and Japan think). Actually build things to a decent standard and maintain them. Tourism will be steam rolling ahead. No matter how pretty the accommodation is inside, if it’s next to a factory, highway or obstructed by poorly planned whatevers, I can’t help but think no duh there Wil be down turns in tourism. It’s just not as protlfitable as the ugly infrastructure, so I guess we are stuck for a bit. I had hope many years ago for higher mountain place and islands, not being factory central. But it’s a hard habit to break as it seems.