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Old Feb 7, 2018 | 2:17 am
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How do you know your hotel is earthquake safe is you are not a structural engineer?

There was a terrible earthquake in Taiwan yesterday, almost exactly two years to the date of a similarly awful earthquake in Taiwan two years ago. In both quakes, most of the casualties are directly attributable to a couple collapsed buildings. In 2018, the two buildings are hotels in Hualien:

-the Marshal Hotel
-the Beauty Stay Hotel

Apparently, a number of buildings in Taiwan don't conform to earthquake safety codes, and it takes bona fide earthquakes to figure out which ones. (The same could be true of other countries — this is not a Taiwan-specific issue.)

SPG has four hotels coming online in Hualien in the coming years. Do you think, as a hotel guest, that an SPG affiliation connotes safety? I know these corporate management contracts come with a long list of checkmarks on brand standards — is earthquake safety one of them?
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