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    Multiple buildings have collapsed in Taiwan after a 6.4 magnitude earthquake

    Multiple buildings have collapsed in Taiwan after a 6.4 magnitude earthquake

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    An earthquake measuring 6.4 on the Richter scale occurred in Taiwan in the early morning hours of Saturday, Feb. 6, according to the US Geological Survey. Several residential buildings near Tainan, a city on the southern end of the island, have reportedly collapsed.


    No casualties have been reported yet, but government officials in Tainan are setting up an emergency response team, the BBC reports.


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    Rescuers are seen entering a building that collapsed on its side after an early morning earthquake in Tainan, southern Taiwan.
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    Strong earthquake hits southern Taiwan, trapping residents

    2016/02/06 06:14:10



    Taipei, Feb. 6 (CNA) A magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck southern Taiwan at 03:57 a.m. Saturday, toppling multiple buildings in Tainan City, including a 16-story residential building with possibly hundreds of people trapped inside, authorities and witnesses said.

    Police and emergency workers were fighting to rescue people from some households in the building, most of which was left lying on its side after the earthquake, in Yongkang District in southern Tainan.

    Many residents in central and southern Taiwan said they felt tremors reminiscent of the magnitude 7.3 earthquake in 1999, which left more than 2,400 people dead.

    The earthquake's epicenter was located in Meinong District, Kaohsiung City, at a depth of 17 kilometers, according to the Central Weather Bureau.

    The strongest tremors, which had an intensity reading of 6 on a 0-7 seismic scale, were felt in Yunlin County, the bureau said.

    Kaohsiung, Pingtung, Tainan and Chiayi had an intensity of 5 while Taitung, Penghu, Changhua, Nantou and Taichung had 4.

    Strong aftershocks, which were centered in Tainan, were felt minutes after the initial tremor.

    There were reports of people being injured after being hit by fallen debris. One man in Yunlin reportedly broke his foot when trying to jump to safety from a second-floor window.

    (By Jay Chen)
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    Taiwan earthquake topples buildings, leaving at least 14 dead and hundreds injured


    Several buildings collapsed when a magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck before dawn in southern Taiwan on Feb. 6, 2016.

    Julie Makinen, Samuel Chan and Jonathan Kaiman Contact Reporters

    Hundreds of Taiwanese firefighters and military personnel raced Saturday to rescue dozens of people trapped in collapsed buildings after a magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck southern Taiwan before dawn.

    At least 14 people, including a 10-day-old girl, were reported killed in the temblor, which struck hardest in the city of Tainan, authorities said.


    The powerful quake ripped a 10-foot chasm in a golf course, cut off water supplies to 400,000 people and halted high-speed rail service to the southern half of the island just ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday.



    As of 7 p.m., Tainan authorities said at least 14 people had been killed in the earthquake, with 12 of them being residents of one collapsed 17-story building.

    Rescuers using backhoes and other heavy equipment have so far helped 348 people out of danger -- 257 of them from the ruins of the Wei Guan residential complex in Tainan's Yongkang district. Some 79 people have been hospitalized.

    All of the high-rise’s 256 registered residents have been removed, according to Apple Daily, but rescuers were said to fear some visitors might still lie under the rubble.

    Three children, including the 10-day-old girl, were among the dozen residents killed when the building collapsed. At least 10 other buildings collapsed during the temblor.

    Another victim, a 56-year-old woman, was killed when a water tower toppled over.


    In another case, firefighters found a 7-year-boy after following the cries of his pet cat, named Meow-meow, who stayed by his side after the quake struck, the Taiwan News said.
    The quake cast a pall over the island amid the approach of Lunar New Year, a peak travel period when many people return to their hometowns.
    Major political parties including the Democratic Progressive Party have canceled their nationwide New Year events. The party’s president-elect, Tsai Ing-wen, in an announcement instructed authorities in regions affected by the earthquake to give all resources and manpower available to the rescue efforts.
    Outgoing President Ma Ying-jeou flew to Tainan, pledging “all-out efforts” to rescue those who remained trapped and assist others affected by the disaster. Ma said the military had prepared 1,200 beds in four shelters in the area to accommodate the displaced.
    Dramatic images flood social media after Taiwan quake

    The earthquake knocked out 69 power lines, affecting more than 121,000 households in the city, according to the Taiwan Power Co. Rail authorities said power cuts, not damage to tracks, was the reason for the suspension of train service. Water supplies to about 400,000 households were interrupted.
    Structural engineers told local media that it appeared the building where most of the deaths occurred may not have met earthquake standards, noting that photos taken before the quake show a base too narrow for a structure of such height in an active seismic zone. The Interior Ministry and Tainan’s mayor announced that they would launch investigations into the building’s design and construction.
    The quake, which hit at 3:57 a.m. Saturday, was particularly destructive because it was very shallow -- about six miles underground -- and the epicenter was on the island, not offshore, said U.S. Geological Survey geophysicist Paul Caruso. People felt the earthquake as far away as mainland China, 100 miles to the west across the Taiwan Strait.
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    Kate Chou, who runs a hostel in Tainan, said she was on her way to the bathroom when the shaking started.
    “The ground was not only moving sideways, but up and down as well. It felt like the Sept. 21 earthquake had come back,” she said, referring to Taiwan’s 7.6-magnitude quake on Sept. 21, 1999, that killed about 2,500 people, the deadliest natural disaster in the island’s recent history.
    “It was shorter than the Sept. 21 quake,” Chou added, “but for someone who had firsthand experience of the Sept. 21 quake, any trembling of the window or door could still seem ominous.”

    Derek Hoerler, an elementary school teacher originally from California, said he woke up and felt violent shaking.
    "It was not a rolling, gentle earthquake, but a violent, jerking motion. The walls were shaking and you could hear the building and windows moving," said Hoerler, who lives in New Taipei City and was visiting family in Kaohsiung when the quake hit. "It lasted at least a minute with swaying afterward. I felt complete terror.”
    "Biggest earthquake I've felt, and I'm from California," said Hoerler, 37, who is originally from Santa Clara.
    Hoerler said he was in the Sacramento area when the magnitude 6.9 Loma Prieta earthquake hit the Bay Area in 1989, and he thought this temblor in Taiwan felt different.
    "That was a rolling quake in ’89," he said. "I remember seeing the pavement actually roll like a wave. The one in Taiwan felt like [the earth moved] up and down, side to side -- violent jerking, like someone was shaking you hard."
    Lee Cheng-kuo, who lives in Kaohsiung, said the violent shaking woke him, his wife and two sons. “Our stereo fell and hit our table really hard. Bottles and other stuff also fell,” he said. They immediately ran out of their house.
    "Taiwan is in an earthquake zone, so we are all somehow experienced and alert to things of this kind,” he said. "Apartments are more damaged than houses. One-story houses like ours are better off,” he added, though water service was knocked out, making pre-holiday cleaning chores difficult.
    Prashant Kumar, an engineering student at National Cheng Kung University in Tainan, said the quake left “huge cracks” in the pillars of his dormitory.
    “I am afraid of another earthquake like that and I don’t know what will happen to this building,” said Kumar, who is from near Kolkata, India.
    The epicenter of the earthquake was underneath the central mountain range of Taiwan -- about 27 miles southeast of Tainan and 24 miles northeast of Kaohsiung, the island's main port city.
    Taiwan sits in a collision zone between the Philippine Sea and the Eurasian plates, and is seismically active.
    Chan is a special correspondent. Makinen and Kaiman reported from Beijing. Rong-Gong Lin in Los Angeles, Nicole Liu in The Times’ Beijing bureau and special correspondent Chuan Xu contributed to this report.

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    Death Toll in Taiwan Quake Rises to 32 - NBC News

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    8 hours ago - The death toll from a powerful earthquake in southern Taiwan rose to 32 on Sunday, though officials feared that more than 100 people were still trapped...
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