Taipei, Sept. 20 (CNA) The aftershocks of a magnitude 6.8 earthquake that hit southeastern Taiwan on Sunday are expected to decrease in magnitude and frequency over the next four weeks, with a slim chance of a magnitude 5 quake occurring by Wednesday, a seismologist said Tuesday.
By Chen Hsin-yu and Liu Tzu-hsuan / Staff reporter, with staff writer and CNAThere are three or four high-risk faults in the populous Chianan Plain （嘉南平原） beneath Chiayi County and Tainan, the Central Weather Bureau （CWB） said yesterday, declining to provide details to avoid causing panic.
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
A MILESTONE: Premier Su Tseng-chang said the Executive Yuan’s national human rights action plan represents Taiwan’s promise to initiate a human rights conventionBy Lee Hsin-fang and Jake Chung / Staff reporter, with staff writer
The Executive Yuan yesterday approved numerous amendments, including its version of a national human rights action plan, as well as making progress on a long-delayed Executive Yuan reform program.
At a news conference following the weekly Cabinet meeting, Executive Yuan spokesman Lo Ping-cheng (羅秉成) said Premier Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌) had told Cabinet members that the proposed “national human rights action plan” is yet another milestone in the history of the nation’s human rights development.
This represents not only the nation’s promise to initiate a human rights convention on its own, but also its willingness to reflect on what is lacking and make