Wang Chien-ying, a professor of earth sciences at National Central University, arrived at the scene only four hours after the quake. Five days later he came to the conclusion that the fault had bent, a notion that didn't mesh with the previous consensus that the Chelungpu fault directly connected to the Sanyi fault farther north.
地震後四個小時內就到現場的中央大學地球科學系教授王乾盈，五天後才看出這個斷層會轉彎，與過去學界推測車籠埔斷層可能直通北邊三義斷層的想法完全不合。