Just three kilometers from Peikang there is a 1.2 hectare site with a nearly 90o slope that was the site of a severe collapse during the 921 earthquake. Now, however, it is covered with lush greenery. Chinese crape myrtle (Lagerstroemia subcostata) shoots are everywhere the eye turns. Nothing here would suggest potential for landslides, and the houses at the bottom of the slope are in good shape.
而在離北坑約三公里遠的埔里鎮覺華園工程現場，近九十度的陡坡，九二一時一．二公頃的崩落面積，如今已植滿如茵綠草，九芎的小苗也紛紛冒出芽來，完全沒有駭人的崩落跡象，山腳下的民房全數安然無恙。