The quake also shook buildings in the capital, Taipei.
TAIPEI - A 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck 34km off Taiwan’s eastern city of Hualien on Aug 16, the island’s weather administration said, with no immediate reports of damage from what was the second strong tremor to hit the island in less than a day.
“It was close,” said Hsieh Yu Wei, a singer who pulled his car over the moment he received a government-issued quake warning while driving on a Hualien coastal highway. The Central Weather Administration also issued mobile phone alerts warning people to “keep calm and seek cover nearby”.In April, Hualien was hit by the biggest earthquake to affect Taiwan in at least 25 years, with at least 18 people killed and more than 900 injured.
Separately in Japan, the National Public Safety Commission on Aug 15 ended its call for higher-than-usual risks of a major earthquake, one week after a strong tremor on the edge of the Nankai Trough seabed zone prompted the government to issue its first-ever megaquake advisory.
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