'As well prepared as they could be': how Taiwan kept death toll low in massive earthquake

For Nina Huang, it was the shaking that jolted her awake. "The first thing I did when I woke up was to hold the cupboard next to my daughter. I was afraid that it might fall down on her," she recalled. Then her phone buzzed with a warning about a tsunami. The biggest fear for Huang and her husband was that the bridge connecting their waterfront village of Yanliao to the city of Hualien would collapse, leaving them stranded. So they drove to the city with their one-year-old daughter and waited in a car park for the tremors to stop,…