A 6.4-magnitude earthquake Strikes Taiwan

A moderate earthquake hit eastern Japan Friday, resulting in no tsunami warning but brief disruptions to a bullet train line operating in Tokyo.

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The U.S. Geological Survey said the magnitude 6.4 quake, initially reported as a magnitude 6.7, was centered 27 miles (43 km) southeast of Tainan, a city of nearly 2 million people.

The quake was very shallow, at depth of 6.2 miles (10 km), which would have amplified its effects, the USGS said. where as the tremor had a preliminary magnitude of 4.6, Kyodo news agency cited the Japan Meteorological Agency as saying.


Taiwan's Liberty Times said that one of the collapsed buildings in Tainan is a residential complex. Taiwanese television added that there are hundreds of residents in one of the collapsed buildings.
No other details were immediately available but many people in Taiwan said the tremor was strong.
"I hugged the wall and put my face to the wall," Pao-feng Wu, a Tainan resident, told Reuters after the quake hit.
There are no signs of a tsunami threat to Hawaii.

The earthquake, which occurred at 7.41 a.m. at a depth of 30 kilometers in Kanagawa Prefecture, measured 4 out of 7 on Japan’s seismic intensity scale in Kawasaki city and Tokyo’s western Machida region.

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Photo Courtesy: Haixia daobao newspaper.

While no casualties or damage were reported, bullet train services at parts of the 515.4-kilometer Tokaido Shinkansen Line between Tokyo and Osaka to the west were briefly disrupted.

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