Taiwan Hit By Dozens of Earthquakes; Strongest Reaching 6.3 Magnitude | Taiwan Quake Live | N18L

A cluster of earthquakes struck the island republic of Taiwan early Tuesday, the strongest having a magnitude of 6.1, according to the US Geological Survey.

There were no reports of casualties in the quakes, although there were further damages to two multi-story buildings that had been evacuated following a magnitude 7.4 quake that hit the island earlier this month, killing 13 people and injuring over 1,000.

That earthquake was centred along the coast of the rural and mountainous Hualien County. It was the strongest earthquake in the past 25 years in Taiwan and was followed by hundreds of aftershocks According to the USGS, Tuesday’s quake of 6.1 magnitude had its epicentre 28 kilometres south of the city of Hualien, at a depth of 10.7 kilometres.

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