Powerful quake rattles Taiwan
15/10/2005 20:30 - (SA)
Taipei - A powerful earthquake struck off the east coast of Taiwan late ON
Saturday, rattling the capital Taipei but without causing any casualties
or damage, according to immediate reports.
The quake measured 7.0 on the Richter scale and struck at 15:51 GMT with
an epicentre around 250 kilometres east of the capital in the East China
Sea, the Taiwanese Seismology Centre said.
The centre initially estimated the temblor at 6.5 on the Richter scale.
An official from the seismology centre said that the quake's impact was
reduced because it struck around 180 kilometres under the sea bed.
The US Geological Survey and Hong Kong Observatory both gave the quake as
6.6 on the Richter scale.
Taiwan, lying near the junction of two tectonic plates, is shaken
regularly by earthquakes.
The country's worst, measuring 7.6 on the Richter sale, struck in
September 1999 and left some 2 400 people dead.
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