Taiwan quake is 'felt' in Utah
Deseret News 22Sep99 P2
By Jeff Call and Joel Campbell: Deseret News staff writers

Cheng-Sheng Pan, a Taiwanese student at Brigham Young University, along with a handful of Utah Valley State College students, attempted to reach relatives and friends. Phone lines have been down and it was difficult to know if they were safe. "My friends cry and cry. I try to comfort them," Schen-Sheng Pan said. "The difficult part is the unknown. I was with them between ll and l:30 a.m. trying to comfort them and trying to find out information."

Wulung Chang, a Taiwanese student from the University of Utah, is studying seismology and hopes to return to his country to help predict earthquakes in Taiwan. He spoke to his grandmother, who lives in a rural area, and determined she was safe. Observers say the quake was very shallow and radiated further causing more damage than typical deeper quakes.

Dan Duckworth, will serve a mission for the LDS church in Taiwan in December. "I was concerned," Duckworth said. "I was just thinking about how that would change the aspect of my mission. I would like to have been there when it was happening rather than on the tail end of it."