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At least 40 people remained trapped after a 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck Taiwan’s east coast, killing nine people and injuring more than 1,000 others.
Tremors set off at least nine landslides and debris collapsed hillsides onto Suhua Highway in Hualien, which runs down the east coast.
Over 50 aftershocks since Wednesday morning have forced many people on the island to sleep in tents outside their houses or in emergency shelters.
About 690 people were either still trapped or out of contact onThursday, Taiwan’s fire agency said. Those trapped, mostly hotel employees earlier reported to be in the national park, were still out of contact with authorities.
The earthquake – the strongest in 25 years in Taiwan – set off tsunami warnings on the island and across neighbouring countries, seismology officials said.
Meanwhile, a 6-magnitude earthquake struck off the east coast of Honshu, Japan on Thursday, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre said.
Death toll in Taiwan earthquake rises to 10
At least 10 people have now been confirmed dead after the powerful earthquake that struck Taiwan on Wednesday.
Of the 10 dead, at least four were killed inside Taroko National Park, a Hualien county tourist attraction famous for canyons and cliffs about 150km from capital Taipei.
One person was found dead in a damaged building and another was found in the Ho Ren Quarry.
Authorities today retrieved another body from a trail.
Trapped Canadian nationals rescued after Taiwan quake
Two Canadian nationals were among the hikers rescued on Wednesday evening from the Taroko Gorge’s Shakadang trail in Taiwan.
The hikers, identified as a 29-year-old man and a 35-year-old woman, were a part of a 14-member group hiking on trail when a 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck the island.
Twelve people from the group made their way out to the trailhead, but two remaining hikers required a lengthy search and rescue, TaiwanNews reported.
Nearly 700 people still stranded a day after earthquake
About 690 people were either still trapped or out of contact on Thursday in Taiwan, including over 600 who were stranded inside a hotel called Silks Place Taroko, the National Fire Agency said. Authorities said the employees and guests at the hotel were safe and work to repair the roads to the facility was close to completion.
Others who were reported to be trapped, including two dozen tourists and six university students, were safe too, they said.
Authorities also said some 60 workers, who had been unable to leave a quarry due to blocked and damaged roads, were freed. Central News Agency said all of them got off the mountain safely around noon.
Six workers from another quarry were airlifted out.
Around 40 people, mostly hotel employees earlier reported to be in the national park, were still out of contact with authorities.
Watch: TV presenters rocked by Taiwan earthquake during live broadcast
Taiwan’s SETTV captured the moment when the magnitude 7.4 earthquake hit live as a female presenter described strong shaking while trying to keep her balance.
The powerful earthquake that struck Taiwan on Wednesday was captured by the cameras in a newsroom during a live broadcast.
As the quake hit, anchors on air kept speaking and delivering news while the studio was visibly shaking.
TV presenters rocked by Taiwan earthquake during live broadcast
Taiwan’s SETTV captured the moment when the magnitude 7.4 earthquake hit live as a female presenter described strong shaking while trying to keep her balance. The powerful earthquake that struck Taiwan on Wednesday (April 3) was captured by the cameras in a newsroom during a live broadcast. As the quake hit, anchors on air kept speaking and delivering news while the studio was visibly shaking. The quake violently jolted eastern Taiwan’s Hualien at 7:58am local time,causing several buildings to collapse. The Central Weather Administration has recorded more than 300 aftershocks from Wednesday morning into Thursday.
Earthquake survivor recall rocks falling like ‘bullets’
A coal mine worker said the strong earthquake in Taiwan unleashed powerful landslides with rocks falling “like bullets”.
A 7.4 magnitude quake on Wednesday set off at least nine landslides and debris came down from hillsides onto Hualien’s Suhua Highway, which runs down the east coast.
Some people stranded in tunnels and near a national park were airlifted to safety on Wednesday, but at least 50 others remain missing.
“The mountain started raining rocks like bullets, we had nowhere to escape to, everyone ran beside the sandbags for cover,” the survivor, identified by his family name Chu, told Taiwan’s Central News Agency.
Ocean Tsai, a resident of Hualien City, recalled: “I was just getting out of bed when a clothes rack and a low cabinet fell over.”
She told BBC: “It kept getting stronger, and I started worrying about our belongings at home. Fortunately, apart from the motorcycle tipping over, the damage was minimal.”
Watch live view of Taipei skyline after Taiwan earthquake
Watch a live view of Taipei after a deadly earthquake rocked the entire island early, collapsing buildings and creating a tsunami that washed ashore on southern Japanese islands.
At least 50 people remain missing after a 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck Taiwan’s east coast on Wednesday, killing nine people and injuring more than 1,000 others.
Mapped: Huge Taiwan earthquake wrecks havoc in Hualien
Rescue efforts are focused in Hualien city, from where most of the casualties and damage have been reported.
Shweta Sharma reports.
Taiwanese soldiers pressed into rescue and rebuilding operation
“Don’t worry, we got this,” says Taiwan’s defence ministry in a post on social media.
Rescuers search for people out of contact in Taiwan
Rescuers searched for dozens of people out of contact Thursday a day after Taiwan’s strongest earthquake in a quarter century damaged buildings, caused multiple rockslides and killed nine people.
In the eastern coastal city of Hualien near the epicenter, workers used an excavator to put construction materials around the base of a damaged building to stabilize it and prevent a collapse.
Mayor Hsu Chen-wei previously said 48 residential buildings were damaged. Some of the damaged buildings tilted at precarious angles with their ground floors crushed.
More than 1,000 people were injured in the quake that struck Wednesday morning. Of the nine dead, at least four were struck inside Taroko National Park, a tourist attraction famous for its scenes of canyons and cliffs in Hualien County, about 150km from the island’s capital Taipei.
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'Terrified' residents forced to sleep in tents due to barrage of aftershocks
Several residents in Hualien City spent the night on Wednesday in tents or emergency shelters due to a series of nearly 50 aftershocks that continued to jolt the island following a powerful earthquake.
“I’m afraid of aftershocks, and I don’t know how bad the shaking will be,” a 52-year-old Hualien resident, who gave her family name as Yu, told Reuters.
"The aftershocks were terrifying. It's non-stop. I do not dare to sleep in the house," she said.
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