7. 4 earthquake. At least nine people have been killed and more than a thousand people are injured on the island. Rupert Wingfield Hayes has the latest from the town of suao, around 25 miles north of the earthquake s epicentre, where over a hundred people remain trapped inside a tunnel, along a coastal highway. This is the moment the quake struck a taipei tv station in the middle of its morning news show. The shaking was intense and prolonged, even in the capital more than 100 miles from the quake s epicentre. This is what it did to Morning Traffic on an elevated highway. And to passengers on a metro train, who remained remarkably calm as the car was tossed around like a toy. Elsewhere, people ran for their lives, abandoning their coffees and breakfast. Most young people here have never experienced a quake like this and were badly shaken. Translation an earthquake | hasnt happened in a long time, so it felt really terrifying. Close to the epicentre in the city of hualien, the shaking w
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reporter: not much. mexico city was built on a former lake bed. the aztecs founded the city on a lake and used to get around in canoes. when the spanish came in, they put the city on top of the lake bed and that s one reason the yaiks so harrowing. the soft soil can amplify the earthquake waves and make it feel like bowl of jello. but only parts of the city are on the lake bed. other parts are on the bed rock. and those fared very well. the parts on the lake bed were where the buildings collapsed and where there s been trouble. power has been restored to most of the city. in some areas it hasn t because they don t want to hamper the efforts in case there are fallen cables. we re talking about the victims but there are also heroes. reporting mexico s moles.
stuck inside. roads are cracked and towers of churches have fallen. one bridge that we know have has also collapsed. the stock market has been suspended for the day. there s some 20 million people that live in the greater mexico city area that contributes 15% to the country s gdp. the whole horror of the irony, 32 years ago on this day, an 8.2 quake killed over 5,000 people, left tens of thousands of buildings stagged. took the city a decade to rebuild. the construction codes have improved greatly. it s important to know that mexico city was build on a dry lake bed. the earthquake waves tend to echo from the lake beds and