Because of the loss of life and destruction of property along the Chelungpu fault during the Chichi quake, the Central Geological Survey's map of fault lines has become a hot seller. The 51 fault lines on the map, however, are only drawn based on information that scholars, government departments and various large construction projects passed along to the CGS during the 1940s and 1950s.
集集地震發生後，由於車籠埔斷層帶造成重大損傷，中央地質調查所出版的《台灣活動斷層概論》因此熱賣，但書中列出的五十一條斷層，只是地調所收集過去學界、公家單位與各大型工程開挖時的調查所得彙編而成，與台灣地下斷層的確實數量不成比例。