Most of them--some 500 per year, in fact--are too minor to be felt. Yu Shui-pei, a researcher at the Academia Sinica's Institute of Earth wriggling, writhing ways of this island we live on. In 1990 he began installing sensitive instruments around the island to measure their precise positions using a satellite positioning system.
中研院地球科學研究所研究員余水倍，大概是最熟悉台灣大地如何悄悄運動的人，民國七十八年他開始在全省裝設兩百多架儀器，進行台灣的衛星定位系統，以便更準確瞭解台灣島的地層運動。