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The Central Weather Administration said a new mooring line east of Orchid Island will stream bottom-pressure data into Taiwan’s earthquake catalog within ninety days, improving lead time for tsunamis triggered near the Manila Trench.
Scientists anchored a nine-instrument mooring array off Orchid Island that will feed Taiwan’s subsea earthquake catalog within ninety days of the first data download.
Water Resources Agency teams installed river-lake gauges along the Mataian system as Cabinet amendments pushed Typhoon Danas recovery funding toward NT$85 billion.
A Taiwan-led team reported CVD-grown 1H-stacked bilayer MoS₂ with a direct band gap in Nature, with NSTC highlighting NTNU and NCKU work published after Oct. 2 agency briefings on valleytronic potential.
Taiwan Space Agency imagery from the Formosat-8A Chi Po-lin satellite is resolving Chiayi paddy fields at 0.7-meter detail, giving agronomists a red-edge view of crop stress before the autumn harvest.
Taiwan’s agriculture ministry escalated its H5N6 avian flu response to a level-one command after a fifth farm case surfaced, as lawmakers debate higher cull payouts and market movement bans.
Central Weather Administration strain gauges logged a dense microtremor swarm off Yilan County, prompting universities to share open data with east-coast townships.
National Taiwan University agronomists reported a 12 percent litchi yield decline on Pingtung farms after September’s heavy rains disrupted pollination and raised fungal pressure on late-season fruit.
Researchers catalogued 31 magnitude-5 or larger earthquakes in the Taichung-Changhua-Nantou corridor since 1795, finding irregular recurrence but a cluster of larger events centered in Nantou County.
Forecasters said a second northeast monsoon surge early next week will combine with radiative cooling to pull outlying dawn lows toward 16 degrees Celsius after this weekend's showers ease.
Taroko Gorge shuttle operators began receiving rockfall sensor feeds Saturday after a limited trail reopening trial, giving drivers audio alerts when seismometers detect debris motion above the highway.
Typhoon Choi-wan formed east of Guam and is forecast to recurve toward Japan while a strengthened northeast monsoon brings heavy rain to Yilan and the north coast from Thursday.
More than 100 scholars met at Jinshan for PNC 2026, Academia Sinica’s first hosting of the Pacific Neighborhood Consortium in nine years, with AI tools featured in 124 papers.
Airborne LiDAR mapping revealed a ten-kilometer syncline and clearer traces of the Kuaiku thrust in Taiwan's southern slate belt, geologists reported.
The Central Weather Administration kept astronomical high-tide advisories for Penghu and Changhua lowlands through September 30 after Typhoon Shuleki’s outer bands raised coastal water levels.
CWA upgraded Surigae to a moderate typhoon at 8 p.m. on Sept. 26, but forecast tracks kept the center away from Taiwan. The bulletin line more likely to change daily life is dated Oct. 1, when the northeast monsoon is expected to bring cooling rain to the north through Oct. 3.
A CWA bulletin keeps an astronomical high-tide warning running through Sep. 30 for Penghu and Changhua lowlands — a raised-baseline forecast, not a flood call, with Shuleki turning north offshore.
National Applied Research Laboratories reopened Hsinchu Taiwan Photon Source visitor slots after a beam-stability upgrade cut trip aborts, pairing school-group tours with beamline scientist office hours for semiconductor materials researchers.
Academia Sinica researchers updated Dongsha Atoll coral bleaching transects after a September marine heat spike, reporting partial mortality on lagoon patch reefs while stressing buoy data under-sample shallow microhabitats.