Two earthquakes, the stronger of which with magnitude 6.1shook eastern Taiwan’s Hualien County, Reuters reported, citing the Taiwan Meteorological Service.
For now no damage information. The earthquakes were recorded with a pause between them of about half an hour. Earthquakes were also felt in the capital city of Taipei.
The first earthquake had a depth of 24.9 km, and the second – with a magnitude of 5.8 and a depth of 18.9 km.
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Taiwan was rocked by over a thousand aftershocks after the 7.2 magnitude earthquake that struck Hualien earlier this month and in which 17 people died.
The island is located in a place where two tectonic plates meet and which is prone to earthquakes.
Over a hundred people died in an earthquake in southern Taiwan in 2016, and in 1999 the island was rocked by a 7.3-magnitude earthquake that killed more than 2,000 people.
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