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Strong quake shakes Taiwan
 An earthquake measuring 6.2 on the Richter scale has rattled Taiwan but there were no immediate reports of damage or casualties, the Seismology Centre said. The temblor hit at 6:40 am local time, with its epicentre 19.9 kilometres north-east of Taitung, a town in the island's south-east. It originated 11.7 kilometres beneath the seabed. "Aftershocks with a magnitude of more than 5.0 are expected to hit the south-east," an official at the centre said. Earlier the US Geological Survey had put the quake's magnitude at 5.8, with its epicentre 260 kilometres south of Taipei.
Posted by: Fred 2006-04-17 |
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