2024-04-27 22:16:54
Two earthquakes, the stronger of which had a magnitude of 6.1, shook eastern Taiwan’s Hualien County, Reuters reported, citing the Taiwan Meteorological Service.
There are no reports of damage at this time.
The earthquakes were recorded with a pause between them of about half an hour. Earthquakes were felt in the capital, Taipei.
The first earthquake had a depth of 24.9 km, and the second – with a magnitude of 5.8 and a depth of 18.9 km, writes BTA.
Taiwan has been rocked by more than a thousand aftershocks since the 7.2-magnitude earthquake that struck Hualien earlier this month, killing 17 people.
Taiwan is located where two tectonic plates meet and is prone to earthquakes.
Over a hundred people died in an earthquake in southern Taiwan in 2016, and in 1999 the island was rocked by a 7.3-magnitude earthquake that killed more than 2,000 people.
I didn’t know CTi (hah) was also getting in on the earthquake monitoring, but on this stream you can see the shaking building up as the wave on the map gets closer and closer to Taipei, and then the cameras go out as the line crossed it pic.twitter.com/i9lKxpqWCD
— Isaac Feng Shitao (@IsaacFinestone) April 26, 2024
❗💥🇹🇼 – #BREAKING: Significant magnitude 5.8 quake hits 20 km northeast of Hualien City, Taiwan early morning.
Earthquake felt in Taiwan’s capital Taipei. pic.twitter.com/DHMTt3Y2dh
— 🔥🗞The Informant (@theinformant_x) April 26, 2024