Japan and Taiwan have enormous experiences with earthquakes and disaster rescue "search and rescue" missions.The Japanese and Taiwanese have suffered from seismic tremors and nature's seismic shocks in one of the most seismically active parts of the world more than many other peoples. And they have specialists and "search and rescue" teams for quick response.
Experienced Japanese and Taiwanese earthquake teams, with sniffing dogs and "search and rescue" equipments, including sensors and nooks and crevices cameras and fibre optics sensors, are being rushed in to join the over 100,000 Chinese rescue workers to work against the clock to save lives and dig through the rubble for signs of life. Click on this critical moment 72 hours after the big 7.9 earthquake:
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