Magnitude 7.5 earthquake rocks entire island of Taiwan, collapsing buildings in a southern city and creating a tsunami that washed ashore on southern Japanese islands.
A powerful earthquake has rocked the entire island of Taiwan, collapsing buildings in a southern city and creating a tsunami that washed ashore on southern Japanese islands.
Train service was suspended across the island of 23 million people, as was subway service in Taipei. But things quickly returned to normal in the capital, with children going to school and the morning commute appearing to be normal. The head of Taiwan's earthquake monitoring bureau, Wu Chien-fu, said effects were detected as far away as Kinmen, a Taiwanese-controlled island off the coast of China.The USGS said one of the subsequent quakes was 6.5 magnitude and 11.8 kilometres deep.
"The earthquake is close to land and it's shallow. It's felt all over Taiwan and offshore islands... it's the strongest in 25 years since the earthquake," Wu Chien-fu told reporters, referring to a September 1999 quake with 7.6-magnitude that killed 2,400 people.
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