Taiwan’s Hualien county was hit by a series of earthquakes – with the highest magnitude at 6.3 – in the early hours of Tuesday morning. The county, along the east coast of the island, experienced the two strongest shocks in about six minutes, according to Taiwan’s Central Weather Administration which recorded a 6.0-magnitude quake at … Read more
TAIPEI: More than 80 earthquakes, the strongest of 6.3 magnitude, struck Taiwan’s east coast starting Monday (Apr 22) night and into the early hours of Tuesday. Some caused shaking of buildings in the capital Taipei, the island’s weather administration said. The quakes were centred on the largely rural eastern county of Hualien, where on Apr … Read more
TAIPEI: A 5.5-magnitude earthquake struck Taiwan’s eastern county of Hualien on Monday (Apr 22), the island’s weather administration said, with no immediate reports of damage. The quake, which had a depth of 10km, also shook buildings in the capital Taipei. Hualien was the epicentre of a magnitude 7.4 quake that hit on Apr 3, causing landslides around … Read more
On Friday night an earthquake of magnitude 3.3 occurred 28 km east of Viljoenskroon, Fezile Dabi District Municipality in the Free State. According to the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC), the quake was located at a shallow depth of 10 km. Cities and towns close to the epicentre may have experienced very weak shaking, said the … Read more
TAIPEI: The death toll from a massive earthquake that struck Taiwan last week rose to 16 on Wednesday (Apr 10) after three more bodies were found on a hiking trail, officials said. The 7.2-magnitude quake that hit the island on Apr 3 also left more than 1,100 people injured, with strict building codes and widespread disaster … Read more
Footage released by the county fire department on Saturday showed Roger, an eight-year-old labrador, mounting a boulder that had fallen across a hiking trail near Hualien’s Taroko National Park. “Have you found something? Let’s go over there,” said a rescuer to Roger, who did not budge. The mayor of southern Kaohsiung – which sent a … Read more
SINGAPORE: Taiwan rescuers on Sunday (Apr 7) said they have narrowed down the search perimeter for the two missing Singaporeans following a magnitude 7.2 earthquake on Wednesday. In CCTV footage from a shuttle bus released on Sunday morning, authorities said that the couple alighted at the Shakadang trail in Hualien’s Taroko National Park at about 7.20am on Wednesday, … Read more
SINGAPORE: The two Singaporeans missing after Taiwan’s magnitude 7.2 earthquake on Wednesday were last seen at a bus station in Hualien, preparing to board a shuttle bus heading to Taroko National Park. Taiwan’s immigration agency said that the missing pair are a married couple. They have been identified as Sim Hwee Kok and Neo Siew Choo, according to a … Read more
4.0 magnitude aftershock hits Northeast after morning earthquake – CBS News Watch CBS News A 4.0 magnitude aftershock rocked parts of the Northeast just hours after a rare 4.8 magnitude earthquake shook the region. CBS News national correspondent Errol Barnett reports. Then, Susan Hough, geophysicist at the U.S. Geological Survey, joins CBS News with analysis. … Read more
The world’s largest independent contract chip manufacturer, which supplies 90 per cent of the world’s most advanced semiconductors to technology giants like Apple and Nvidia, restarted operations within 10 hours after work was suspended because of the worst earthquake to hit Taiwan in 25 years. There were at least nine fatalities and more than 1,000 … Read more
