A big step, however, was taken in 1971 when a group of returned scholars from abroad with the aid of the National Science Council set up the Earthquake Research Center, which later became the Earth Science Research Department of the Academia Sinica.
一九七一年，中研院地球科學研究所的前身﹘﹘地震研究中心，由國科會資助一群旅美學人成立，地震研究才上軌道。