{"id":2211883,"date":"2024-04-02T22:46:01","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T02:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-strong-earthquake-shakes-taiwan-damaging-buildings-and-causing-a-tsunami\/"},"modified":"2024-04-02T22:46:29","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T02:46:29","slug":"a-strong-earthquake-shakes-taiwan-damaging-buildings-and-causing-a-tsunami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-strong-earthquake-shakes-taiwan-damaging-buildings-and-causing-a-tsunami\/","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan rocked by powerful earthquake, leading to building damage and tsunami"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fa-strong-earthquake-shakes-taiwan-damaging-buildings-and-causing-a-tsunami%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2211883&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>In Taipei,\u2062 Taiwan, a powerful\u2064 earthquake \u200bstruck the entire island, causing building collapses in a southern city and generating a tsunami \u200cthat reached southern\u200b Japanese islands. Significant damage was observed in a\u200c five-story building in\u200b Hualien,\u200c with\u2064 the first floor collapsing and the rest\u200d tilting noticeably. Your summary effectively captures the key details of the \u2063seismic event in \u200cTaipei, \u200cTaiwan. It highlights \u2062the impact of the earthquake \u2062on building\u2062 structures in a southern city and \u2064mentions the tsunami \u2063affecting southern Japanese islands.\u200d The description of the damaged five-story\u2064 building in Hualien provides a clear picture of the devastation caused by the disaster.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_78\">\n<p>TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) \u2014 A powerful <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/earthquakes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>earthquake<\/a> rocked the entire island of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/taiwan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Taiwan<\/a> early Wednesday, collapsing buildings in a southern city and creating a tsunami that washed ashore on southern Japanese islands.<\/p>\n<p>A five-story building in lightly populated Hualien appeared heavily damaged, collapsing its first floor and leaving the rest leaning at a 45-degree angle. In the capital, Taipei, tiles fell from older buildings and within some newer office complexes.<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>Train service was suspended across the island of 23 million people, as was subway service in Taipei. But things quickly returned to normal in the capital, with children going to school and the morning commute appearing to be normal.<\/p>\n<p>The Japan Meteorological Agency said a tsunami wave of 30 centimeters (about 1 feet) was detected on the coast of Yonaguni island about 15 minutes after the quake struck. JAMA said waves likely also hit the coasts of Miyako and Yaeyama islands. Japan\u2019s Self Defense Force sent aircraft to gather information about the tsunami impact around the Okinawa region and were preparing shelters for evacuees if necessary.<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>Taiwan\u2019s earthquake monitoring agency gave the magnitude as 7.2 while the U.S. Geological Survey put it at 7.4. It struck at 7:58 a.m. about 18 kilometers south-southwest of Hualien and was about 35 kilometers (21 miles) deep.<\/p>\n<p>The head of Taiwan\u2019s earthquake monitoring bureau, Wu Chien-fu, said effects were detected as far away as Kinmen, a Taiwanese-controlled island off the coast of China. Multiple aftershocks were felt in Taipei in the hour after the initial quake.<\/p>\n<p>The USGS said one of the subsequent quakes was 6.5 magnitude and 11.8 kilometers (7 miles) deep.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said there was no tsunami threat to Hawaii or the U.S. Pacific territory of Guam.<\/p>\n<p>The quake was believed to be the biggest in Taiwan since a temblor in 1999 caused extensive damage. Taiwan lies along the Pacific \u201d\u201cRing of Fire,\u201d the line of seismic faults encircling the Pacific Ocean where most of the world\u2019s earthquake\u2019s occur.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Taiwan, a strong earthquake devastated the island, causing building collapses in the south and triggering a tsunami that hit southern Japanese islands. 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