Taiwan hit with magnitude-6.0 quake after day of tremors late on Monday evening. (Representational)
Taipei:
-Greater than 80 earthquakes, the strongest of 6.3 magnitude, struck Taiwan’s east coast beginning Monday evening and into the early hours of Tuesday and a few precipitated shaking of buildings within the capital Taipei, the island’s climate administration stated.
The quakes have been centred on the largely rural jap county of Hualien, the place on April 3 a minimum of 14 folks died after a 7.2 magnitude temblor. Taiwan has been jolted by lots of of aftershocks since then.
The hearth division in Hualien stated early on Tuesday {that a} resort which had already been broken on April 3 and was now not in operation was now barely leaning on its aspect.
Nevertheless, there have been no experiences of any casualties.
Taiwan lies close to the junction of two tectonic plates and is vulnerable to earthquakes.
Greater than 100 folks have been killed in a quake in southern Taiwan in 2016, whereas a 7.3 magnitude quake killed greater than 2,000 folks in 1999.
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