"Aftershocks with a magnitude of at least 5.0 could rock the island in the next two weeks, the government said. Its streets were buckled by the force of the quake, with around 40,000 homes left without water and around 1,900 without power. "We were still open when it happened," said Lin Ching-wen, who operates a restaurant near a damaged military hospital. A car sat submerged in rubble as rescue workers combed through the ruins of a nearby building.President Tsai Ing-wen went to the scene of the quake early on Wednesday to help direct rescue operations. An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.1 struck nearby on Sunday.More than 100 people were killed in a quake in southern Taiwan in 2016, and some Taiwanese remain scarred by a 7.6 magnitude quake that was felt across the island and killed more than 2,000 people in 1999.

Source: Egypt Today February 07, 2018 10:18 UTC