Home »

6.4 magnitude Earthquake struck the coastal city of Hualien in Taiwan, many buildings collapsed that killed at least 2 persons and 202 injured.

February 06, 2018





 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.
For other information, read the following news from Telegraph at:

VietPress USA News



oOo

Hotel collapse leaves people trapped after 6.4 magnitude earthquake shakes Taiwan

By  Our Foreign Staff  - 6 FEBRUARY 2018 • 6:47PM
The government confirmed that a hotel had collapsed after the earthquake
A magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck near the coastal city of Hualien in Taiwan late on Tuesday, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said, causing buildings including a hotel to collapse and forcing the closure of a nearby highway.

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.
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.


oOo

Hạnh Dương
www.Vietpressusa.us

Related Post: ,