TAIPEI: At least nine people were killed and more than 900 injured Wednesday by a powerful earthquake in Taiwan that damaged dozens of buildings and p...
This handout from Taiwan’s National Fire Agency taken and released on April 3, 2024 shows members of a rescue team searching for survivors in a damaged building in Hualien, after a major earthquake hit Taiwan’s east/AFPPix
Officials said the quake was the strongest to shake the island in decades, and warned of more tremors in the days ahead. Wednesday's magnitude-7.4 quake hit just before 8:00 am local time , with the United States Geological Survey putting the epicentre 18 kilometres south of Taiwan's Hualien City, at a depth of 34.8 kilometres.
The National Fire Agency did not immediately offer details on the other three deaths, but said all the fatalities had been in Hualien county, adding that 946 people had been injured without specifying how seriously. Dramatic images were shown on local TV of multi-storey structures in Hualien and elsewhere tilting after the quake ended, while a printing warehouse in New Taipei City crumbled.
The main roads leading to the city pass through an extensive series of strongly built tunnels -- some of them kilometres long -- and officials said dozens of people could be trapped in vehicles inside.“We must carefully check how many people are trapped and we must rescue them quickly,“ president-elect and current Vice-President Lai Ching-te told reporters in Hualien.
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