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Trains derailed and low-rise buildings flattened after a 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck Taiwan

Trains derailed and low-rise buildings flattened after a 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck Taiwan

 


A 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck southeast Taiwan, killing at least one person, derailing train carriages and triggering tsunami warnings.

Key points: The 6.8-magnitude quake followed a 6.4-magnitude quake on Saturday, three railcars derailed and 20 passengers evacuated.

The island’s meteorological office said the quake’s epicenter was in Taitung County, and a 6.4-magnitude quake that hit the same area on Saturday evening was followed, without causing casualties.

The US Geological Survey measured the magnitude of the earthquake at 7.2 and at a depth of 10 km.

The Taiwan Emergency Operations Center said a cement factory worker died in Yuli town and nine people were slightly injured.

The Taiwan Fire Department said the four people were rescued from a collapsed building in Yuli, while three people whose car fell off a damaged bridge were rescued and taken to hospital.

Several people have been rescued from a collapsed building in Yuli, Taiwan (AP: Hualien City Government), a child rescued from under the rubble

The three-storey building, which contained a small shop on the ground floor and apartment buildings at the top, collapsed in the nearby town of Yuli, the island’s central news agency said.

The 70-year-old owner and his wife were rescued first, but it took longer to reach the 39-year-old woman and her five-year-old daughter.

A photo released by the city government of Hualien showed the girl lying on a blanket and rescue workers in orange uniforms handed her a metal ladder from the top of the wreckage.

The top two floors of the building were left running across a small street and on the other side, with the electrical wires pulled down by the structure that had fallen.

A firefighter carries a child during a rescue operation after an earthquake in Yuli Township (Associated Press: Hualien City Government)

Taiwan’s railways administration said six coaches derailed at Dongli Station in eastern Taiwan after part of the platform’s canopy collapsed.

It added that 20 passengers were evacuated from the vehicles, but there were no injuries.

More than 600 people have been trapped in the mountainous regions of Chek and Liushishi due to road closures, but work is underway to reopen roads.

An estimated 7,000 households were reported without electricity in Yuli, and water pipes were reportedly damaged.

The shaking was also felt at the northern tip of the island in the capital, Taipei. In Taoyuan City, west of Taipei and 210 kilometers north of the epicenter, a man was injured by a roof collapse on the fifth floor of a sports center.

Firefighters work on the site where a building collapsed. (Reuters: Central Earthquake Emergency Operations Center)

On the other hand, the US Tsunami Warning Center said that dangerous tsunami waves were possible along the coast of Taiwan, 300 km from the epicenter.

The Japan Meteorological Agency issued a one-meter tsunami warning for part of Okinawa Prefecture following the earthquake.

The quake was felt across Taiwan, the agency said, and buildings briefly shook in the capital, Taipei.

In the semiconductor factories in the southern cities of Tainan and Kaohsiung, there was no impact on operations.

Taiwan lies near the intersection of two tectonic plates and is prone to earthquakes.

More than 100 people were killed in the 2016 southern Taiwan earthquake and a 7.3-magnitude earthquake that killed more than 2,000 people in 1999.

Reuters

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