Kamis, 04 April 2024

Joe Biden says US support for war in Gaza depends on Israel's conduct - Financial Times

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  1. Joe Biden says US support for war in Gaza depends on Israel's conduct  Financial Times
  2. Biden says Israel must prevent civilian harm in Gaza to keep US support  BBC
  3. Slamming Netanyahu, Ben Gvir says no vote held on moves to boost aid deliveries to Gaza  The Times of Israel
  4. Joe Biden calls for ‘immediate ceasefire’ in Gaza  The Guardian
  5. Biden tells Israel: stop killing civilians in Gaza  The Telegraph

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UK's Cameron tells Europe: Pressure House Speaker Johnson on Ukraine - POLITICO Europe

U.S. President Joe Biden has been publicly pressuring House Republicans for months to pass a Ukraine aid package. Johnson, however, leads a fractious GOP caucus that has so far rebuffed efforts to get fresh funding to Ukraine.

Cameron, who has previously traveled to the U.S. to give Ukraine aid the hard sell, painted a gloomy possible outcome for Europe — one in which Ukraine does not prevail, and Europe is divided.

Despite wishing Kyiv to win, Cameron said “there [is] another future where Ukraine gets knocked back, and where there’s cheering in Moscow, Beijing, Tehran, Pyongyang.”

“And NATO and Europe face a future of insecurity, of questioning each other about whether we really stand up for our allies.”

Two percent plea

Cameron also urged Europe to redouble its efforts to reach the level of spending of 2 percent of GDP on defense — a key agenda of Republican ex-president Donald Trump as he bids once again for the White House.

“We need — particularly those who are short on two percent — need to see their prime ministers and presidents and push them to get those budgets,” he said.

The British foreign secretary, a former prime minister who was brought back into government last year, also urged other NATO countries to accelerate work to send weapons nearing expiry dates to Ukraine. “Those weapons should be given to Ukraine — not costly, decommissioned in our own countries,” he said.

Finally, Cameron called on Western allies to “press” their finance ministries to use Russian frozen assets — “whether through syndicated loans or whether through bonds or whatever means necessary to help in Ukraine.”

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Taiwan earthquake: Death toll rises to 10 as island rocked by over 300 aftershocks - The Independent

Taiwanese TV presenters rocked by earthquake during live broadcast

At least 10 people have now been confirmed dead after a 7.4-magnitude powerful earthquake struck Taiwan on Wednesday.

More than 1,000 people have sustained injuries in the biggest earthquake recorded on the island in 25 years, while over 40 people remained trapped on Thursday.

Tremors set off at least nine landslides and debris collapsed hillsides onto Suhua Highway in Hualien, which runs down the east coast.

Over 300 aftershocks since Wednesday morning have forced “terrified” 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 on Thursday, 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 set off tsunami warnings on the island and across neighbouring countries.

Meanwhile, a 6-magnitude earthquake struck off the east coast of Honshu, Japan on Thursday, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre said.

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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.

Alisha Rahaman Sarkar4 April 2024 10:53
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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.

Alisha Rahaman Sarkar4 April 2024 10:30
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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.

Alisha Rahaman Sarkar4 April 2024 10:27
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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.

Alisha Rahaman Sarkar4 April 2024 10:00
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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.”

Alisha Rahaman Sarkar4 April 2024 09:27
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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.

Alisha Rahaman Sarkar4 April 2024 09:00
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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.

Alisha Rahaman Sarkar4 April 2024 08:30
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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.

Alisha Rahaman Sarkar4 April 2024 08:00
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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.

More here.

Alisha Rahaman Sarkar4 April 2024 07:30
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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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Tents donated by the Red Cross Society of Taiwan are set up at a primary-school-turned shelter
Tents donated by the Red Cross Society of Taiwan are set up at a primary-school-turned shelter (EPA)
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Rescue workers killed in Russian strikes on Ukraine’s Kharkiv - Al Jazeera English

Ukrainian officials say wave of Shahed drone strikes on border city injured at least 12 people.

Rescue workers were among at least four people killed in Russian strikes on residential buildings in Ukraine’s eastern city of Kharkiv, Ukrainian officials say.

Kharkiv Mayor Igor Terekhov said on Thursday in a message on the Telegram app that 12 people were injured in the attacks on the buildings that had previously been bombed in a “densely populated district of Kharkiv”.

Three of the dead were rescuers who had arrived at the scene to deal with the aftermath of the earlier strikes, the Kyiv Post reported.

Kharkiv, the capital of the region of the same name, lies just 30km (19 miles) from the border with Russia and has come under frequent bombardment since Moscow launched its invasion in February 2022.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called it “a despicable and cynical attack”.

“Russian terrorists will be held accountable for their actions in Kharkiv and for all acts of aggression against our people,” he said in a post on X, adding that “strengthening Ukraine’s air defense capabilities directly translates into saving lives”.

Images posted on social media showed partly destroyed residential buildings as well as an ambulance and a fire truck that were also damaged in the strikes.

Kharkiv’s Governor Oleg Synegubov said there were at least 15 drone attacks on Ukraine’s second-largest city overnight, but some of them were downed.

He said Iranian-made Shahed drones were used.

One of those injured was a nurse caught in a later, secondary blast, Synehubov added. A 69-year-old woman was killed when a 14-storey building was hit.

Russia denies deliberately targeting civilians.

Last week, Russian forces used an aerial bomb on the city, killing one person. A missile attack on an industrial area earlier in the month killed five people.

‘Critical zero’

Russia in recent weeks has intensified its attacks on electricity and other infrastructure, leaving hundreds of thousands of people without power.

About 350,000 residents were cut off from power supply in Kharkiv and the surrounding region, Ukraine’s Ministry of Energy said in a statement on Telegram.

Ukrainian officials have urged the country’s allies to supply more anti-aircraft defence systems, in particular modern US-made Patriot systems.

US military aid to Ukraine has been drying up, with a $60bn funding package currently stalled in Congress, amid fierce opposition from Republicans.

As the conflict grinds on, Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko said on Thursday that the situation between Moscow and NATO was “predictably and deliberately” deteriorating.

All channels of dialogue between Moscow and the military alliance have been brought to a “critical zero” level by Washington and Brussels, he added in an interview with Russian state news agency RIA.

At the same time, he said, Russia had no intention to start military conflict with NATO or its members.

NATO foreign ministers are closing out their two-day meeting in Brussels on Thursday. On Wednesday, urged by Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, they agreed to move towards guaranteeing long-term weapon deliveries to Ukraine. But proposals to establish a $107bn five-year fund met resistance from some quarters.

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Taiwan earthquake: Aftershocks jolt island as nine dead and 1000 injured - The Independent

Taiwanese TV presenters rocked by earthquake during live broadcast

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.

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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.

Alisha Rahaman Sarkar4 April 2024 10:53
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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.

Alisha Rahaman Sarkar4 April 2024 10:30
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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.

Alisha Rahaman Sarkar4 April 2024 10:27
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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.

Alisha Rahaman Sarkar4 April 2024 10:00
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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.”

Alisha Rahaman Sarkar4 April 2024 09:27
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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.

Alisha Rahaman Sarkar4 April 2024 09:00
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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.

Alisha Rahaman Sarkar4 April 2024 08:30
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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.

Alisha Rahaman Sarkar4 April 2024 08:00
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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.

More here.

Alisha Rahaman Sarkar4 April 2024 07:30
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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.

Relief efforts after Taiwan's magnitude 7.4 earthquake
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Tents donated by the Red Cross Society of Taiwan are set up at a primary-school-turned shelter
Tents donated by the Red Cross Society of Taiwan are set up at a primary-school-turned shelter (EPA)
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US defence secretary rebukes Israel over killing of aid workers in Gaza - Financial Times

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  1. US defence secretary rebukes Israel over killing of aid workers in Gaza  Financial Times
  2. Israel’s Gaza action has bordered on reckless, says ex-MI6 chief  The Guardian
  3. Israel’s war on Gaza live: 7 killed aid workers ‘targeted systematically’ | Israel War on Gaza News  Al Jazeera English
  4. The truth about Israel's 'friendly fire'  The Spectator
  5. Israel targeting aid workers car by car, says charity  The Times

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Taiwan earthquake latest: Race to save dozens trapped in tunnels as 9 confirmed dead - The Independent

Buildings partially collapsed after 7.4-magnitude earthquake hits Taiwan

Dozens are understood to be trapped in highway tunnels after a 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck Taiwan’s east coast, which has seen nine people confirmed dead and more than 900 injured.

Tremors set off at least nine landslides and debris collapsed hillsides onto Suhua Highway in Hualien, which runs down the east coast.

According to Taiwan’s National Fire Agency (NFA), people are trapped in two road tunnels along the Suhua Highway- one of the most dangerous roads in Taiwan, straddling between the mountainside and ocean.

Rescue teams are working to get to those trapped, with CNN reporting that 75 people who were stranded in various tunnels had been rescued in the morning.

The earthquake – the strongest in 25 years in Taiwan – set off tsunami warnings on the island and across neighbouring countries, seismology officials said.

More than 77 people remain trapped under the rubble after the quake caused widespread damage and power outages across the country.

The epicentre of the earthquake, which struck at 7.58am local time, was located about 18km south of Taiwan’s Hualien city, said the US Geological Survey. The USGS measured the earthquake at magnitude 7.4, though Taiwan’s own monitoring agency put it at 7.2.

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Taiwan president thanks first responders

Taiwanese president Tsai Ing-wen thanked people for sending messages of support and first responders for saving lives after the 7.2 magnitude earthquake this morning and its aftershocks.

“I’m deeply grateful for the messages of support we have received from around the world, and to our first responders for their life-saving work,” the Taiwanese president wrote on X.

“My heart is with everyone affected. Please keep in touch with loved ones, and stay safe,” Ms Tsai said.

Mike Bedigan4 April 2024 00:30
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Watch live: Taiwan earthquake rescue operation underway as at least nine people dead

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‘The biggest earthquake I have ever experienced'

A woman who runs bed-and-breakfast accommodation in Hualien city said she scrambled to calm her guests who were scared by the quake.

"This is the biggest earthquake I have ever experienced," the woman, who asked to be identified only by her family name, Chan, told Reuters.

The government previously put the number of injured at 946, though other reports place the numbers at over 1,000.

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ICYMI: Taiwan rocked by biggest earthquake in 25 years with nine confirmed dead

At least nine people were killed and more than 900 injured when Taiwan’s biggest earthquake in 25 years rocked the island during the morning rush hour, prompting authorities to issue tsunami warnings.

Read more from The Independent’s Alisha Rahaman Sarkar:

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Why is Taiwan so prone to earthquakes and so well prepared to withstand them?

Taiwan was struck Wednesday by its most powerful earthquake in a quarter of a century. At least nine people were killed and more than 1,000 reportedly were injured, with buildings and highways damaged and train service interrupted.

Taiwan is no stranger to powerful earthquakes, but well equipped to deal with them, according to experts.

Here’s why:

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Taiwan earthquake numbers

Here are some of the numbers from the earthquake in Taiwan so far. Numbers have been sourced from the United States Geological Survey (USGS), Taiwanese officials and local news outlets, as well as international news agencies.

- The quake was measured as being at 7.4 magnitude

- At least 58 aftershocks followed, with one of magnitude 6.4

- At least 26 buildings collapsed; 15 were located in Hualien City

- The event set off at least 24 landslides on Suhua Highway in Hualien

- Nine people have been confirmed as dead, with over 1,000 injured

- Dozens of people were stranded and others remain missing

Mike Bedigan3 April 2024 21:30
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Shockwaves felt across Taiwan

The power of Wednesday’s 7.4 magnitude quake was felt all over Taiwan and surrounding areas.

Tremors were captured live as news anchors delivered their bulletins, steadying themselves against giant screens as their sets swayed and lighting rigs rocked back and forth overhead.

Commuters were rocked from side to side, with footage showing some bracing themselves as the train swayed violently before stopping on the tracks, with one woman forced to crouch down. Sighs of relief were let out as the shockwaves subside.

Elsewhere, people were forced to evacuate houses, and CCTV footage captured items falling from shelves and breaking inside local cafes.

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Mike Bedigan3 April 2024 21:00
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Watch: Taiwan: Commuters rocked on train by 7.4 magnitude earthquake

Taiwan: Commuters rocked on train by 7.4 magnitude earthquake
Mike Bedigan3 April 2024 20:30
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Taiwan quake felt by surrounding countries

Wednesday’s earthquake that struck Taiwan’s east coast was measured at a 7.4-magnitude, which was felt by neighbouring nations.

In Japan, the weather agency put the quake’s magnitude at 7.7, saying several small tsunami waves reached parts of the southern prefecture of Okinawa. The tsunami warnings were later downgraded to an advisory.

In the Philippines, seismology officials warned coastal residents in several provinces to move to higher ground.

Chinese state media also said the quake was felt in the southeastern province of Fujian, while a Reuters witness said it was also felt in the commercial hub of Shanghai.

Mike Bedigan3 April 2024 20:00

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