A strong earthquake shook Taiwan early on April 3, inflicting buildings to break down and impacting the complete island, AP reported. According to Taiwan’s earthquake monitoring company, the magnitude of the quake was 7.2, whereas the US Geological Survey estimated it to be 7.5.”
The head of Taipei’s Seismology Centre instructed AFP that this earthquake was the strongest in 25 years.
The earthquake is near land and it is shallow. It’s felt throughout Taiwan and offshore islands… it is the strongest in 25 years for the reason that (1999) earthquake,” Wu Chien-fu instructed reporters. He was referencing the devastating earthquake in September 1999, measuring 7.6 magnitude, which claimed the lives of two,400 people, because the earlier comparable occasion.
Television footage depicted buildings in Taiwan’s japanese metropolis of Hualien being shaken from their foundations, with tremors felt even within the capital Taipei.
Further native Taiwan information has been reporting that individuals are trapped in collapsed buildings in Hualien, as per Reuters. Reports additionally added that the japanese coast of Taiwan is seeing a number of rockslides and landslides.
Notably, Taipei metropolis authorities has knowledgeable that it has not but acquired any rets of main harm from the earthquake.
Tsunami Warning in Japan
Japan additionally issued a tsunami alert for the southern Japanese island group of Okinawa, it added.
The Japan Meteorological Agency predicted a tsunami of as much as 3 meters (9.8 toes) following the quake, which occurred at 7:58 am native time. Approximately half-hour later, it was reported that the preliminary wave of the tsunami had seemingly reached the shores of the Miyako and Yaeyama islands.
(With inputs from AP. AFP and Reuters)
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