The Central Weather Administration reported that the largest earthquake, which struck Taiwan’s capital overnight into the early hours of Tuesday, was a magnitude-6.3 tremor that originated in eastern Hualien.
The Taiwan Quake
The Central Weather Administration reports that at approximately 5:08 p.m. (0908 GMT) on Monday, a magnitude-5.5 powerful earthquake occurred. Taipei, the nation’s capital, felt it. A sequence of aftershocks and earthquakes ensued, with two powerful quakes occurring consecutively at approximately 2:30 am (1830 GMT) on Tuesday, as reported by AFP reporters and witnesses in Taipei.
“I was doing my hand washing when I felt what I thought was vertigo,” vacationer Olivier Bonifacio of Taipei’s Da’an neighborhood told AFP. He claimed, “I heard the desk creak and noticed the building was rocking when I stepped into my room,” adding that he later learned there was another aftershock.
The Central Weather Administration Detects The Earthquake
At 2:26 a.m., a magnitude-6.0 earthquake was recorded by the Central Weather Administration, and six minutes later, a magnitude-6.3 one. The first one was estimated by the US Geological Survey to be magnitude 6.1, and the second at magnitude 6.0.
Reporters with AFP reported that during strong earthquakes on Monday, they could feel their buildings trembling. One reporter saw “glass panels of bathrooms and windows were making noises” as the island trembled.
The Hualien Region Was At Risk
A magnitude 7.4 earthquake that struck on April 3 was felt most strongly in the Hualien region. It caused landslides that shut down highways surrounding the hilly area and severely destroyed buildings in the main city of Hualien.
The most recent body was discovered in a quarry on April 13; at least 17 people were murdered in that earthquake. The Hualien Fire Department announced early on Tuesday that teams had been sent out to assess any damage caused by the recent earthquakes. They declared in a statement at 2:54 am that no casualties had been reported as of yet.
Because Taiwan is situated at the meeting point of two tectonic plates, it experiences regular earthquakes. Numerous aftershocks from the earthquake on April 3 produced hundreds of rockfalls in the Hualien area.
It was the worst to strike Taiwan since a 7.6-magnitude earthquake struck the nation in 1999. At that time, 2,400 people perished in the deadliest natural disaster in the history of the island. More public knowledge of disasters and stricter building controls, such as strengthened seismic standards in building codes, seems to have prevented a more major calamity during the April 3 earthquake.
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