Strong earthquake strikes northern Taiwan

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Magnitude 6.5 earthquake strikes northern Taiwan

A strong earthquake struck northeastern Taiwan on Sunday, with residents reporting violent shaking in the capital Taipei but there were no immediate reports of widespread damage.

"The walls of the house were shaking, both sideways and up and down, it felt quite strong," the reporter said.The main quake was followed by a 5.4-magnitude aftershock and Taipei's MRT metro system shut down as a precaution for a little under an hour before service resumed. "First time I've felt a quake on the MRT. Like a tame rollercoaster," he tweeted, adding he and other commuters were told to shelter in place in the station."I was scared to death, I screamed in my room," Facebook user Yu Ting wrote.Some grocery stores reported food and other goods were thrown from shelves by the shaking."The public don't have to be too worried," said Chen Kuo-chang, head of the central weather bureau’s seismological centre.

Taiwan’s emergency operations centre reported one injury, a woman hit by falling rocks. Her friends were carrying her down a mountain in eastern Hualien county. Some earthquakes of this magnitude can prove deadly, although much depends on where the quake strikes and at what depth.

 

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