Taiwan's strongest earthquake in nearly 25 years damages buildings, leaving dead and wounded. The earthquake triggered a tsunami warning that was later lifted.
Train service was suspended across the island of 23 million people, as was subway service in the capital, Taipei. China issued no tsunami warnings for the Chinese mainland and all such alerts in the region had been lifted by Wednesday afternoon. The economic fallout from the quake has yet to be calculated, but Taiwan is the world's leading manufacturer of computer chips.