At least nine people were killed and more than 1,000 injured Wednesday by a powerful earthquake in Taiwan that damaged dozens of buildings and prompted tsunami warnings as far as Japan and the Philippines before being lifted.
This photo taken by Taiwan’s Central News Agency on April 3, 2024 shows the damaged Uranus Building in Hualien, after a major earthquake hit Taiwan’s eastDozens of people were believed safe but unreachable in areas cut off by massive landslides triggered by the quake — many in tunnels that cut through the mountains that bisect the island from north to south.
“We were very lucky,” said a woman surnamed Chang, who lived next door to a printing press warehouse near the capital that virtually pancaked in the quake. All 50 inside at the time were plucked to safety.Wu Chien-fu, director of Taipei’s Central Weather Administration’s Seismology Center, said the quake was the strongest since one of 7.6-magnitude struck in September 1999, killing around 2,400 people in the deadliest natural disaster in the island’s history.
The National Fire Agency said all the fatalities had been in Hualien County, adding that 1,011 people across Taiwan had sustained injuries without specifying how seriously.Social media was awash with shared videos and images from around the island of buildings swaying as the quake struck. The mayor there said more than 50 survivors had been successfully plucked from the ruins of the structure.
By nightfall, the county was still experiencing rolling aftershocks as rescuers continued combing through debris. Across the Taiwan Strait, social media users in China’s eastern Fujian province and elsewhere said they also felt strong tremors.China, which claims self-ruled Taiwan as part of its territory, was “paying close attention” to the quake and “willing to provide disaster relief assistance”, state news agency Xinhua said.
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