An earthquake shook Taiwan on Wednesday morning, setting off alarms within the capital, however no injury was instantly reported.
The Central Climate Administration measured the quake at 5.8 magnitude. The shaking in Taipei lasted just a few seconds.
The US Geological Survey mentioned the magnitude 5.0 quake was about 21 kilometers (12 miles) south-southeast of Yilan on the northeast coast. It was centered 69 kilometers (43 miles) under the Earth’s floor. Deeper quakes might be extensively felt whereas usually inflicting much less injury than shallow quakes.
Taiwan lies alongside the Pacific “Ring of Hearth,” the road of seismic faults encircling the Pacific Ocean from Chile to New Zealand the place a lot of the world’s earthquakes happen.
Taiwan’s worst fashionable quake, a 1999 magnitude 7.7 temblor killed 2,415 individuals, broken buildings across the island of 23 million individuals and led to tightened constructing codes, higher response occasions and coordination and widespread public schooling campaigns on earthquake security.
Colleges and workplaces maintain earthquake drills, whereas cellphones buzz each time a robust earthquake is detected.
