People who living in Taiwan all concern about whether their house are strong enough or not when a quake hit. Taiwan's National Applied Research Laboratories (NARL) on Tuesday unveiled the country's first website designed to educate local residents on how quake safe their homes really are.

The concept of Big Data has been put into practice in this website, which has collected seismic data from around the island and built a database of some 9,000 buildings the team has evaluated islandwide since the year of 2000, said Chiou Tsung-chih, an assistant researcher at the NARL's National Center for Research on Earthquake Engineering.

After entering basic information on the structure — such as the number of pillars and the height and width of its walls — users can get a “more conservative” analysis within two seconds, Chiou said.

However, the website does have its limitations that only buildings of five stories or less that were constructed with steel and concrete, which represent about 70 percent of all residential buildings in Taiwan, can be assessed by the system, the researcher said.

Meanwhile, Chiou's team is also working on assessing high-rise buildings, which he said was a mid-term goal. They are also planning to develop an English version of the website.

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