The number of people injured in a 7.2 magnitude earthquake in eastern Taiwan climbed past 1 000 today though the death toll remained steady at nine, with dozens of workers on their way to a hotel in a national park mostly now found safe. The temblor, the strongest in 25 years, hit yesterday morning just as people were readying to go to work and...
A 7.2 magnitude earthquake rocked Taiwan today, the strongest tremor to hit the island in at least 25 years, killing four people, injuring dozens and sparking a tsunami warning for southern Japan and the Philippines that was later lifted.
Taiwan’s government said four people had died in the mountainous, sparsely populated eastern county of Hualien where the epicentre was, with more than 50 injured. At...
