Monday night was an interesting night... at 2:00 a.m. I woke up and the bed was shaking. I thought Keona woke up and was shaking the bed. But when I looked over to my left, where the air conditioner's remote is, it was swinging like a pendulum. I realized that the whole building was shaking! I heard Nainai get out of her room to the living room, but I didn't get out of bed... It was in the morning that Nainai said it was an earthquake on the east side of the island that could be felt here in Taipei. Interesting experience, and I don't like it!
Here is what the News says:
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Moderate earthquake strikes offshore TaiwanTAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwanese authorities say a 6.3-magnitude earthquake has struck off the east coast of the island, rattling buildings in Taipei, but causing no casualties or damage.The Central Weather Bureau says the quake struck at 2:05 a.m. Tuesday (1805 GMT Monday). It was centered about 36 miles (57 kilometers) off the eastern city of Hualien, some 85 miles (135 kilometers) southeast of the capital.Earthquakes frequently rattle Taiwan, but most are minor and cause little or no damage.However, a 7.6-magnitude earthquake in central Taiwan in 1999 killed more than 2,300 people. And in 2006 a 6.7-magnitude tremor south of Kaohsiung severed undersea cables and disrupted telephone and Internet service to millions throughout Asia.Copyright © 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601080&sid=a23R4_HGnf7E says:
Taiwan Hit by Magnitude-6.3 Quake, Tremors in Taipei (Update1)By Tim Culpan and Peter S. Green
July 14 (Bloomberg) -- A magnitude-6.3
earthquake struck off the coast of Taiwan at about 2 a.m. local time today, and the temblor rattled windows and shook buildings in the capital of Taipei more than 100 kilometers away.No major damage or injuries were reported as of 2:50 a.m. by the fire department in the eastern county of Yilan, close to the epicenter, Taiwan’s official Central News Agency said. Taiwan’s weather service warned sea levels in coastal areas may change suddenly after the quake.A temblor measuring magnitude-4.0 struck Yilan at 2:02 a.m., followed by the 6.3 shock off the east coast at 2:05 a.m., and aftershocks of 3.9 and 5.1 magnitude in the same area, Taiwan’s Central Weather Bureau reported on its Web site.The biggest of the three struck at a depth of about 25 kilometers (15 miles), about 135 kilometers south-southeast of Taipei, the U.S. Geologic Survey said on its Web site.Taiwan is regularly struck by earthquakes. The most deadly in recent years, a 7.6-magnitude quake in
September 1999, killed about 2,400 people and caused at least $9 billion in damage.To contact the reporters on this story:
Tim Culpan in Taipei at
tculpan1@bloomberg.net;
Peter S. Green in New York at
psgreen@bloomberg.net Last Updated: July 13, 2009 17:06 EDT
