TAIPEI, Taiwan — An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6 struck southern Taiwan early Tuesday, based on the U.S. Geological Survey.
The quake hit at 12:17 a.m. (1600 GMT Monday), with its epicenter 12 kilometers (7 miles) north of Yujing at a preliminary depth of 10 kilometers (6 miles), USGS mentioned. Taiwan’s Central Climate Administration recorded a magnitude of 6.4.
There have been no fast experiences of deaths from the quake, although rescuers had been nonetheless assessing injury.
Taiwan’s hearth division mentioned that six folks, together with a baby, had been rescued from a collapsed home in Nanxi District, Tainan metropolis, with minor accidents. One other individual was injured by falling objects. The Zhuwei bridge on a provincial freeway was reported to be broken.
Final April, a magnitude 7.4 quake hit the island’s mountainous japanese coast of Hualien, killing not less than 13 folks and injuring greater than 1,000 others. The strongest earthquake in 25 years was adopted by a whole lot of aftershocks.
Taiwan lies alongside the Pacific “Ring of Fireplace,” the road of seismic faults encircling the Pacific Ocean the place a lot of the world’s earthquakes happen.
