The quake rocked the entire island of Taiwan, collapsing buildings and prompting tsunami warnings in Japan and the Philippines.
A 7.2 magnitude earthquake rocked Taiwan on Wednesday, the strongest tremor to hit the island in at least 25 years, killing nine people, injuring hundreds and sparking a tsunami warning for southern Japan and the Philippines that was later lifted.
Taiwanese television stations showed footage of buildings at precarious angles in Hualien, where the quake struck just offshore as people were going to work and school. Authorities said they had only expected a relatively mild quake of magnitude 4 and accordingly did not send out alerts. The agency put the first earthquake’s magnitude at 7.7. It said several small tsunami waves had reached parts of the southern prefecture of Okinawa, but it later downgraded the earlier tsunami warning to an advisory.
Chinese state media said the quake was felt in China’s Fujian province, while a witness said it was also felt in Shanghai.
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