On Thursday, the death toll from the 7.2-magnitude earthquake in eastern Taiwan remained nine, while the number of people injured climbed past 1,000.
Workers carry out operations at the site where a building collapsed, following the earthquake, in Hualien, Taiwan on Apr 4, 2024. Everything started shaking and the intensity got worse as the seconds dragged on. That is when she realised it was serious, said Ms Lim, a Mediacorp artiste who has been living with her family in Taipei for the past nine years.
Ms Lim grabbed her phone so she could find out how her children and husband were doing, and “left some last words” on her Instagram account, fearing the worst. “Water was splashing out from the stove … And I have things falling down. Drawers were coming in and out, and the doors were also swaying. It was scary in the sense that you're all alone and everything is just crashing down on you. But thankfully, we did not have any major damage,” she said.
Geophysicist Stuart Clark said that although the disaster was severe, there are far fewer casualties than in other similar-magnitude earthquakes. “There's been a series of aftershocks … in the six hours after the main earthquake struck. One of them was 6.4 in magnitude already on its own, quite a severe earthquake, so that will worry the rescuers,” he told CNA’s Asia First on Thursday.On Taiwan’s lack of warning from its earthquake alert system, Assoc Prof Clark said that such quakes are hard to predict.
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