The magnitude 6.4 quake, which hit near the coastal city just before midnight (1600 GMT) on Tuesday, also injured 243 people and collapsed four buildings, officials said. Aftershocks with a magnitude of at least 5.0 could rock the island in the next two weeks, the government said. Residents waited and watched anxiously as emergency workers dressed in fluorescent orange and red suits and wearing helmets searched for residents trapped in apartment blocks. A car sat submerged in rubble as rescue workers combed through the ruins of a nearby building. 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: bd News24 February 06, 2018 18:22 UTC