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Aftershocks from a magnitude 6.2 earthquake that struck off Yilan County at 3:45pm yesterday could reach a magnitude of 5 to ...
Lights shook as a magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck Taiwan today. Footage shows the fixtures swaying as the tremor rattled a ...
A magnitude 6.2 earthquake struck off Yilan at 3.45pm today, the Central Weather Administration (CWA) said. The hypocenter ...
A 6.2 magnitude earthquake struck 128 kilometres off Taiwan’s northeastern coast on Thursday, the island’s Central Weather ...
According to Taiwan’s Central Weather Administration (CWA), the earthquake registered a magnitude of 6.2 and was centred 128.9 kilometres east-southeast of Yilan County Hall, beneath the Pacific Ocean ...
Taiwan’s last major earthquake was in 1999, when a magnitude 7.6 temblor struck about 90 miles southwest of Taipei, killing nearly 2,500 people.
Taiwan’s earthquake monitoring agency gave the magnitude as 7.2 while the US Geological Survey put it at 7.4.
Taiwan is no stranger to powerful earthquakes, yet their toll on the high-tech island's 23 million residents has been relatively contained thanks to its excellent earthquake preparedness, experts say.
Taiwan and its surrounding waters have registered about 2,000 earthquakes with a magnitude of 4.0 or greater since 1980, and more than 100 earthquakes with a magnitude above 5.5, according to the ...
Taiwan’s earthquake monitoring agency said the quake was 7.2 magnitude while the U.S. Geological Survey put it at 7.4. It struck about 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Hualien and was about 35 ...