A 5.7 magnitude earthquake rocked Taiwan’s eastern Hualien region on Monday morning, according to the China Seismological Network Center (CENC).
According to the same source, the depth of the earthquake was 10 kilometers.
The Euro-Mediterranean Seismological Center (EMSC) for its part calculated a little earlier that the seismic shaking was 5.6 degrees and that it was completely superficial, with a focal depth of 2 kilometers.
It follows a massive 6.8 magnitude earthquake that hit Taiwan’s sparsely populated southeast on Sunday, causing trains to derail, a retail store to collapse and hundreds of people trapped in landslides on mountain roads. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) has calculated that yesterday’s earthquake had a magnitude of 7.2.
A casualty count released by the island’s fire brigade lists one dead and 146 injured. Four people were rescued from the rubble of a store that collapsed in Yuli municipality.
Another strong earthquake of magnitude 6.4 hit the island on Saturday.
Taiwan is located above the intersection of two tectonic plates, so strong earthquakes are not uncommon on the island. More than 100 people died in the 2016 southern earthquake, and a 7.3 earthquake killed more than 2,400 Taiwanese in 1999.
Source: RES-IPE
Source: Kathimerini
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