TAIPEI (AFP) – An subsurface seism activity 6.3 on the Richter bit rocked island primeval Tuesday, quiver grouping from bed, but there were no unmediated reports of casualties or damage.
The tremble impact at 2:05 am (1805 time Monday), feat buildings to displace in most of the island, the Asiatic Seismology Centre said.
It place the quake's epicentre at 57 kilometres (34 miles) easterly of Hsiulin, a municipality in the easterly of Taiwan, with a depth of 9.4 kilometres low the sea.
It issued no unmediated wave alert.
The United States Geological Survey place the quake's epicentre 137 kilometres south-southeast of the top Taipei.
A ordinal tremble struck at 4:28 am with a ratio of 5.1 at a depth of 35 kilometres in a kindred location, according to the USGS.
Taiwan, which lies nearby the union of digit science plates, is regularly agitated by earthquakes. A 7.6-magnitude tremble killed around 2,400 grouping in Sept 1999.
The island was impact by a program of tremors meet over digit weeks past with the strongest achievement a ratio of 5.6.
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