A magnitude 6 earthquake on the Richter scale was recorded in the sea near the northeastern coast of Taiwan on Wednesday (August 27). No damage has been reported so far. Due to the earthquake, the buildings of Taipei shook for a few seconds. This caused panic among the people and everyone came out on the streets.
Authorities said monitoring was ongoing, and that Taiwan’s fire department reported no damage. Taiwan sits on the border of two tectonic plates and is regularly hit with earthquakes.
In April 2024, a magnitude 7.4 quake in Hualien left at least 19 dead and destroyed hundreds of buildings. It was the strongest earthquake in 25 years. More than 100 were killed in a southern Taiwan quake in 2016.
The deadliest seismic event in recent memory was on September 21, 1999 with the so-called “921 earthquake” that was named for the month and day of the event, near the town of Jiji that left in excess of 2,400 dead.
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