TAIPEI, island – Authorities feature a 5.5-magnitude seism has struck orient island noise buildings in Taipeh but feat no casualties or damage.
The Central Weather Bureau says the tremble struck at 2:10 p.m. Sun (0610 GMT). It was centralised most 9 miles (15 kilometers) soured the orient municipality of Hualien whatever 85 miles (135 kilometers) southward of the capital.
Earthquakes ofttimes noise island but most are secondary and drive lowercase or no damage.
However, a 7.6-magnitude seism in bicentric island in 1999 killed more than 2,300 people. And in 2006 a 6.7-magnitude tremble southward of Kaohsiung cut subsurface cables and disrupted ring and cyberspace assist to jillions throughout Asia.
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