Seven people have been killed and hundreds injured in Taiwan after the country’s strongest earthquake in almost 25 years levelled buildings, halted rail traffic and forced the evacuation of semiconductor manufacturing plants.
The quake — which had a magnitude of 7.2 according to Taiwan’s earthquake monitoring agency and 7.4 according to the US Geological Survey — struck at 7.58am on Wednesday off the east coast, 25km south of Hualien, a city of about 100,000 people.
The government’s Disaster Response Center said seven people had died and 821 others were injured by the quake. All the dead were in Hualien and the surrounding county, which has borne the brunt of the damage.
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