Yesterday’s powerful 6.8 magnitude earthquake derailed trains, collapsed a retail store and trapped hundreds of people on mountain roads due to landslides.
A 5.7-magnitude earthquake jolted its eastern Hualien County Taiwan this morning, according to the China Seismological Network Center (CENC).
The focal depth of the earthquake was 10 kilometers, according to the same source.
The Euro-Mediterranean Seismological Center (EMSC) calculated for its part a little earlier that the seismic tremor was 5.6 degrees and that it was completely superficial, with a focal depth of 2 kilometers.
It followed a powerful 6.8-magnitude earthquake that struck sparsely populated southeastern Taiwan on Sunday, derailing trains, collapsing a retail store and trapping hundreds of people on mountain roads due to landslides. The US Geological Survey (USGS) estimated that yesterday’s earthquake had a magnitude of 7.2.
The tally of victims published by the fire brigade on the island speaks of one dead and 146 injured. Four people were rescued from the wreckage of the store that collapsed in the municipality of Iuli.
Another strong earthquake, measuring 6.4, hit the island on Saturday.
Taiwan sits above the point where two tectonic plates intersect, and strong earthquakes are common on the island. More than 100 people were killed by an earthquake in the southern part of the country in 2016, while a 7.3-magnitude earthquake killed more than 2,400 Taiwanese in 1999.
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