Jimu News Reporter Li Manying
According to Taiwan's news website "NewTalk.tw", after a magnitude 6.4 earthquake occurred at 9:41 pm on the 17th, aftershocks continued. As of 7:00 am on the 18th, 45 earthquakes had occurred in the surrounding areas of Taitung, the largest of which was 5.5. This is also the largest earthquake in the Guanshan area in 49 years. In this regard, Chen Guochang, director of the Earthquake Measurement and Reporting Center of Taiwan's Meteorological Department, said in an interview that this phenomenon is "very strange" and there must be unknown structures.
Affected by the earthquake, house walls collapsed (Picture source: Taiwan media)
According to the media, at 6:5 am on the 18th, a 4.0-magnitude earthquake occurred in Kaohsiung City, with the epicenter located in Taoyuan District, Kaohsiung City; at 6:40, a small-area 3.9-magnitude earthquake occurred, with the epicenter located in the southeastern sea of Taiwan; at 6:58, two small-area quakes occurred successively, with the epicenter located in Zhuoxi Township, Hualien County... Chen Guochang said in an interview with the media that the phenomenon of continuous earthquakes in Taitung overnight was very strange. He analyzed that the strong earthquakes in the region have been very rare in the past 50 years, and it cannot be seen from the previous distribution, and there are destructive or broken belts. He admitted that this strong shock was strange and there must be structures that everyone does not know about.
(Source: Jimu News)
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