A 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck Monday in Taiwan's east, 38 kilometers south of Hualien city, the U.S. Geological Survey said. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries. The quake had an estimated depth of 10 kilometers, according to USGS, and struck at 9:05 a.m. A clip of a tranquil…
Nearly 8,000 train passengers were delayed after a magnitude 6 earthquake struck Hualien County at 9:05am yesterday.
The Taiwan Railways Administration said the earthquake delayed 6,196 passengers on 31 trains, and about 1,700 passengers on the Taoyuan International Airport MRT Line.
No casualties had been reported as of press time last night, but televised footage showed business owners in Hualien County’s Guangfu Township (光復) cleaning up damaged goods and broken glass.
Footage from a surveillance camera at Liyu Lake (鯉魚潭), a tourist destination on the east coast, showed that the quake caused the lake to shake vertically.
The quake’s epicenter was 37.7km southwest of
The nation does not have an adequate number of buoys along the southwest coast for a tsunami warning system after two buoys were destroyed at sea, the Central Weather Bureau (CWB) said yesterday.
The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration developed a monitoring system using mid-frequency buoys manufactured by Science Applications International Corp (SAIC), the bureau said, adding that Taiwan joined the US Pacific Tsunami Warning Centers’ (PTWC) observation network after it purchased a monitoring system in 2018.
If large earthquakes occur in Indonesia or the South-Pacific region, the buoy system transmits data to the PTWC and the weather bureau, CWB Seismological
Taipei, May 9 (CNA) A magnitude 6.1 earthquake that rocked Taiwan on Monday afternoon caused delays on the Taiwan Railways Administration (TRA) and Taoyuan International Airport MRT networks.
A magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck off Taiwan’s east coast at 2:23pm yesterday, causing train delays and affecting more than 3,000 railway passengers.
No damage or casualties were reported as of press time last night.
The quake’s epicenter was 89.5km east of Hualien County Hall at a depth of 27.5km, Central Weather Bureau data showed.
The largest intensity generated by the temblor, which was felt nationwide, reached level 3, which was detected in Taipei and New Taipei City, as well as Yilan, Hualien and Taitung counties, the bureau said.
The bureau recorded two aftershocks: a magnitude 5.4 quake at 2:24pm and a magnitude