After the Chichi quake, Lee Yuan-tseh, the president of the Academia Sinica, heard that a Taipei fault supposedly ran past the Academia Sinica, so he asked experts from the Institute of Earth Sciences to look for the fault both in front of and behind the Academia Sinica.
集集大震後，李遠哲院長聽說台北斷層經過中研院，集合了地球科學研究所眾專家學者在院區前後察看，可惜神龍不見首也不見尾，仍無法確定斷層潛藏何處。