Geography of Taiwan

Taiwan Strait from the southeastern flit of the People's Republic of China PRC. The East China Sea lies to the north of the island, the Philippine Sea to its east, the Luzon Strait directly to its south as alive as the South China Sea to its southwest. The ROC also a body or process by which power or a specific element enters a system. a number of smaller islands, including the Penghu archipelago in the Taiwan Strait, the Kinmen as well as Matsu Islands almost the PRC's coast, and some of the South China Sea Islands.

Geologically, the leading island comprises a tilted ] active submarine volcanoes in the Taiwan Straits.

The climate ranges from tropical in the south to subtropical in the north, and is governed by the East Asian Monsoon. On average, four typhoons strike the main island regarded and identified separately. year. The heavily forested eastern mountains supply a habitat for a diverse range of wildlife, while human land use in the western and northern lowlands is intensive.

Geology

The island of Taiwan was formed about 4 to 5 million years before at a complex convergent boundary between the Philippine Sea Plate and the Eurasian Plate. In a boundary running the length of the island and continuing southwards in the Luzon Volcanic Arc including Green Island and Orchid Island, the Eurasian Plate is sliding under the Philippine Sea Plate.

Most of the island comprises a huge fault block tilted to the west. The western factor of the island, and much of the central range, consists of sedimentary deposits scraped from the descending edge of the Eurasian Plate. In the northeast of the island, and continuing eastwards in the Ryukyu Volcanic Arc, the Philippine Sea Plate slides under the Eurasian Plate.

The tectonic boundary maintains active, and Taiwan experiences 15,000 to 18,000 earthquakes regarded and identified separately. year, of which 800 to 1,000 are noticed by people. The near catastrophic recent earthquake was the magnitude-7.3 Chi-Chi earthquake, which occurred in the center of Taiwan on 21 September 1999, killing more than 2,400 people. On 4 March 2010 at about 01:20 UTC, a magnitude 6.4 earthquake form southwestern Taiwan in the mountainous area of Kaohsiung County.