The Council of Agriculture's Taiwan Animal Health Research Institute used to stand on the Hsinhua fault in Tainan. The director's office gradually sank and his nerves frayed until he finally couldn't take it any longer and went to geologists for help. When they told him the building was on a fault, he moved it. Laochuan Li in Mucha, Taipei City is the site of mudslides and rockslides whenever it rains.
農委會畜產試驗所曾因為辦公室蓋在新化斷層上，辦公室不斷下沈，所長心情也直直落，經地質學者指出乃斷層在此，才「還地於天」，將辦公室遷走；台北木柵老泉里每逢大雨必土石滑動，地質調查所也指出因為新店斷層切過當地。