China News Service, Taipei, October 24. Taiwan's Yilan County experienced two consecutive earthquakes at 1 pm on the 24th, with magnitudes 6.5 and 5.4 on the Richter scale respectively.
The magnitude 6.5 is the largest earthquake in the Yilan area in 30 years.
Experts say that aftershocks of magnitude 4 or higher may occur in the next 3 days.
According to the Taiwan Meteorological Department, the epicenters of the two earthquakes were located in Nan'ao Township and Datong Township in Yilan, only 1 minute apart, and the focal depths were 66.8 kilometers and 67.3 kilometers respectively.
According to reports from Taiwan Central News Agency, United News Network, and China Times News, the earthquake has caused many damages.
A female tourist was injured when her left foot was slid off a rock in Xiulin Township, Hualien, and firefighters rushed to rescue. A car on Suhua Highway in Yilan County was hit by a falling rock and traffic was interrupted. Fortunately, there were no casualties; Taoyuan The water tower pipeline of an apartment building in Guishan District was ruptured by the earthquake; many residential gas pipelines in Taipei were damaged; a residential building in New Taipei collapsed by the earthquake, and the boom of a high-rise construction site was broken; the earthquake also caused some train and subway delays.
According to reports, the whole station felt the earthquake.
The earthquakes in Fujian, Xiamen, Fuzhou, Quanzhou, and Putian on the west bank of the Taiwan Strait are obvious.
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