From an academic standpoint, the map is more like a book report than hard scholarship. Chen Wen-shan, an associate professor of geology at National Taiwan University, says that in 50 years the government probably hasn't spent more than NT $ 10 million on fault line surveys. Although the CGS publishes the fault line map, it doesn't dare distribute it, for fear that it will adversely affect the construction industry.
在學界看來，這本斷層報告只是讀書報告，台大地質系副教授陳文山就直說，台灣五十年來由官方出資進行的斷層調查費用恐怕還不到兩千萬台幣，斷層圖出版了也不敢對外發行，怕建商因為利益受損反彈。