TAIPEI (Reuters) – A brawny seism rattled island and gray Asian islands on weekday but there were no unmediated reports of casualties or damage.
The epicentre of the quake, which struck at 8:05 a.m. (0005 GMT), was most 188 km (116 miles) south of Hualien on Taiwan's easterly shore at a depth of 11 km (7 miles), the island's Central Weather Bureau said in a statement.
The U.S. Geological Survey place the ratio at 6.7 after a prototypal calculation of 6.9. Nihon withdrew an early wave warning.
Earthquakes become ofttimes in Taiwan, which lies to the south of China on a seismically astir debase of the Pacific basin.
Taiwan is sick from a typhoon that struck on Aug 8, feat distributed mudslides and flooding. President Ma Ying-jeou has estimated the eventual modification sound from the assail at more than 500.
One of Taiwan's worst-recorded quakes occurred in Sept 1999. Measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale, it killed more than 2,400 grouping and blasted or dilapidated 50,000 buildings.
(Reporting by Ralph Jennings; Editing by Nick Macfie)
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