Third measurement flight and....an earthquake!

Today we conducted the third measurement flight, heading south towards Manila (Philippines) to probe the Manila plume. A tracer had been released already yesterday that we tried to capture today. According to the forecast it should have worked perfectly, but we will se results of the tracer experiment only after the air samples have been analyzed at DLR. But the "normal" pollution plume of Manila was clearly observed with trace gases like CO, NOx, and actetone, and in the concentrations of black carbon, sulfate, and organic aerosol particles.

Over the Philippines


In the afternoon, when some of us were already back to the hotel, suddenly the room was shaking: an earthquake! Not unsusual for Taiwan, located at the "Ring of Fire". The center of the earthquake was about 50 km NE of Tainan, where it had a strengh of 5.2. For Tainan it was rated with intensitiy 3. All these information were available on the earthquake-related websites just few minutes after the earthquake:
https://www.cwb.gov.tw/V7e/earthquake/Data/quake/EE0320172252072.htm
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us1000d6qk#executive

But at Tainan city we did not observe any distubance of the normal life. People seem to be used to it.

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