At least 9 people have been killed and 934 injured after a series of powerful earthquakes struck Taiwan on Wednesday. The strongest of these was magnitude 7.4 on the Richter scale, causing the collapse of 28 buildings.
The emergency tools Rescue efforts continue this Thursday for nearly 150 people trapped after the strong earthquake that shook Taiwan’s east coast yesterday. 9 dead and more than 1000 injured.
According to the latest data from the Taiwan Emergency Center, the earthquake caused a total of 2471 incidents of varying sizes across the island, most in eastern Hualien province, the ground zero of the earthquake.
Authorities are working to find it 147 people were detained or held incommunicado due to the many rock falls recorded after the earthquake, the largest Taiwan has suffered since 1999.
On the other hand, some 65 people are still stranded in the mining areas of Hualien, although it has not yet been possible to determine whether they were inside or outside the mines at the time of the earthquake.
47 hotel employees and 24 tourists are also trapped around a cave in Taroko National Park.
Source: EITB
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