CHANG , Yuan-Pin

Taiwan is located in the Typhoon Alley, an area that experiences the most frequent occurrence of severe tropical cyclones reaching categories 3 to 5 on the Saffir-Simpson scale. The island experiences 4.5 typhoons annually, threatening infrastructure and lives with landslides, heightened seismic hazards, and severe storm surges inducing floods....

We have collected two shallow gas hydrate samples at two sites having different geological settings off southwest Taiwan during the cruise MD214 in 2018. The first core site, MD18-3542, is on the South Yuan-An East Ridge at ~ 1200 m water deep, where a structural unconformity covered by fine-silt sediments appears at ~ 5.5 m below the seafloor....