Three years ago, the Taiwan Provincial Government's Department of Agriculture and Forestry made an aerial topographic survey of Pingtung County, an area severely affected by subsidence The survey revealed that since 1976 the coastline has been continuously retreating inland, by up to 200 meters in some places.
三年前，省政府農林廳航測地層下陷嚴重的屏東地形，發現民國六十五年來，海岸不停內移，最大距離達二百公尺。