Taiwan’s northeast rattled by magnitude 6 offshore earthquake

No contiguous reports of damage, island’s occurrence section says, arsenic buildings shingle successful superior Taipei.

A magnitude 6 earthquake has struck disconnected the northeast seashore of Taiwan, shaking buildings successful the capital, Taipei.

The quake’s epicentre was astir 20km (12 miles) offshore from Yilan region astatine a extent of 112km (70 miles), officials said.

Authorities said monitoring was continuing, with Taiwan’s occurrence section adding that it had received nary reports of damage.

Taiwan lies connected the bound of 2 tectonic plates and is often deed by earthquakes.

In April 2024, a magnitude 7.4 quake successful Hualien killed astatine slightest 19 radical and damaged hundreds of buildings. The earthquake was the strongest successful 25 years.

More than 100 radical were killed successful a confederate Taiwan quake successful 2016.

The deadliest seismological lawsuit successful caller decades occurred connected September 21, 1999, erstwhile the alleged “921 earthquake”, named for the period and time it occurred, adjacent the municipality of Jiji near much than 2,400 radical dormant .

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