The coastal city was hit on Tuesday by a magnitude 6.4 quake just before midnight that injured 270 people. A rescuer walks outside a collapsed building after an earthquake hit Hualien, Taiwan on Thursday. "We have strong earthquakes all the time in Hualien and it's really bizarre that our building collapsed," he told Reuters. More than 800 people sought refuge in shelters overnight, many too scared to stay home as aftershocks fuelled panic. More than 100 people were killed in a quake in southern Taiwan in 2016, and in 1999, a quake of magnitude 7.6 killed more than 2,000 people.

Source: CBC News February 08, 2018 04:40 UTC