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A 5.8 magnitude earthquake quickly followed by another at 6.2 struck eastern Taiwan on Sunday, the island’s weather bureau said, with no reports of damage.
The first quake, which shook buildings in the capital Taipei, had a depth of 15 kilometres with its epicentre in Hualien county on Taiwan’s sparsely populated and mountainous eastern coast, the bureau said.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - A magnitude 5.9 earthquake on Sunday struck Iran’s southern province of Bushehr, where a nuclear power plant is located, but there were no immediate reports of major damage, state television said.
The epicentre of the quake was the town of Rig and hospitals in nearby cities and provinces were on alert, with rescue teams and 50 ambulances sent to the area, a regional official told state TV.
Local official Gholamreza Mehrjou told state TV that water, electricity and internet have been restored to villages in the quake-hit area and people who had taken to the streets in fear of more tremors “have returned to their homes”.
Eight people were killed and 39 injured as the 6.1-magnitude quake struck off Indonesia s western province of East Java a day earlier, the National Disaster Management Agency said on Sunday.
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MALANG, East Java: Indonesian President Joko Widodo Sunday ordered swift rescue and relief efforts after eight people died in an earthquake that hit off southern Java Island.
Three others were badly injured in Saturday’s magnitude-5.9 quake and more than 1,180 buildings were damaged, most of them slightly, the disaster agency BNPB said. Some houses were flattened, images in Indonesian media showed. Two shelters for the displaced have been set up in the town of Lumajang, says a UK-based international wire agency. All of the casualties were reported in 15 districts and cities in East Java, the closest province to the epicentre of the quake, which struck in the Indian Ocean.
A strong earthquake struck Tajikistan on Friday and the tremors were felt as far away as north India and Pakistan, witnesses said. Many residents ran out of their homes, but no major damage was reported.