O earthquake stronger than Taiwan in 25 years it killed nine people and injured at least 900 on the morning of this Wednesday, 3. The huge tremor caused building collapses, power cuts and landslides on the autonomous island, triggering tsunami warnings in southern Japan and the Philippines .
Dozens of people are believed to be trapped under rubble and awaiting rescue, including 70 workers at a coal mine, according to news agency The Associated Press.
O 7.2 magnitude earthquakeaccording to Taiwan’s earthquake monitoring agency, or 7.4, according to the United States, occurred near Hualien, a city popular with tourists on Taiwan’s east coast.
The island felt many aftershocks throughout the day, but the scale of seismic activity in Hualien is jaw-dropping: no fewer than 130 separate earthquakes occurred in and around the city this Wednesday, many of them exceeding magnitude 5. ,0, according to the official government website. According to local authorities, the earthquake in Taiwan caused the collapse of at least 26 buildings.
