Taiwan, or TAIPEI According to the island’s weather service, a 6.4-magnitude earthquake occurred Tuesday close to the city of Chiayi in a mountainous, rural region of southern Taiwan, with reports of modest damage.
Chipmaker TSMC reported that all of the employees at its factories in central and southern Taiwan had been evacuated and were safe.
Buildings in Taipei, the capital, were shaken by the earthquake. According to the weather office, it struck just after midnight and had a depth of six miles, with its epicenter located in Dapu township in Chiayi county.
According to the fire brigade, several individuals have already been rescued from the few stranded in Tainan’s damaged buildings.
According to the Chiayi fire department, no significant casualties have been reported in the city thus far. According to a Dapu official who spoke to Reuters on behalf of his family, Chi, several communities had experienced power outages, and some buildings had sustained damage.
There were no overt indications of a tragedy, the Dapu fire department told Reuters.
Buildings in Tainan’s research park, which houses important industries like TSMC, were evacuated, according to the report.
Taiwan is prone to earthquakes because it is located close to the meeting point of two tectonic plates. The Meishan earthquake near Chiayi in 1906 claimed almost 1,200 lives.
13 people were killed in Taiwan’s most recent significant earthquake, which struck the east coast county of Hualien in April and had a magnitude of 7.2.
A 1999 earthquake with a magnitude of 7.3 killed over 2,000 people, and a 2016 earthquake in southern Taiwan killed over 100.