VietPress USA (Feb. 6, 2018): A very strong 6.4 magnitude Earthquake just truck near coastal city of Hualien, Taiwan that caused some big buildings and Hotel collapsed, killed at least 2 persons and more than 189 other people injured.
A hotel on the east coast of Taiwan has collapsed after a 6.4-magnitude earthquake, the government said. Citing the national fire agency, Taiwan’s cabinet said another hotel had also been damaged.
Local media reported a number of buildings had toppled with around 30 people trapped in the collapsed hotel.
The quake hit at 23:50 pm (3.50pm GMT) around 21 kilometres (13 miles) northeast of the port city Hualien, according to the United States Geological Survey. The government confirmed that the hotel had collapsed, but few further details were immediately available. Emergency services are working to free anyone trapped inside the building, media reports said.
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Hotel collapse leaves people trapped after 6.4 magnitude earthquake shakes Taiwan
By 6 FEBRUARY 2018 • 6:47PM |
| The government confirmed that a hotel had collapsed after the earthquake |
The quake struck about 22 kms (14 miles) northeast of
Hualien - which is home to about 100,000 people - shortly before midnight, and
the epicentre was very shallow at just 1km, the USGS said.
There was no immediate confirmation of any deaths or
injuries or word of any tsunami warning, but the government confirmed in the
early hours of Wednesday that the Marshal Hotel in Hualien had collapsed,
trapping three people inside.
Another building also collapsed in Hualien, it added, but
did not say whether any people had been trapped there.
Four other buildings, including two hotels, also tilted
during the earthquake in Hualien, a popular tourist destination on Taiwan's
eastern coast, about 120 kilometres (75 miles) south of the capital, Taipei.
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| The tilting hotel |
The government also confirmed that a military hospital had
tilted during the earthquake.
The government said two bridges in the city were either
cracked or could not be used.
A magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck nearby on Sunday.
"The president has asked the cabinet and related
ministries to immediately launch the 'disaster mechanism' and to work at the
fastest rate on disaster relief work," President Tsai Ing-wen's office
said in a statement.
Taiwan, a self-ruled island that China considers part of its
territory, is prone to earthquakes.
Some people in Taiwan are still scarred by a 1999 earthquake
with 7.6 magnitude whose impact was felt across the island and in which more
than 2,000 people died. More recently, an earthquake in 2016 in southern Taiwan
left more than 100 dead.
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