AsiaEast Asia Authorities did not send out alerts as they were expecting smaller quake \u2013 but it was strongest in 25 years<\/p>\n
Taiwanese TV presenters rocked by earthquake during live broadcast<\/p>\n
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Rescuers have been searching for missing 18 people and working to reach others stranded after Taiwan\u2019s strongest earthquake in 25 years sent boulders and mud tumbling down mountains, blocking roads and shaking buildings. <\/p>\n
Ten people died and more than 1,000 were injured in the powerful 7.4-magnitude quake.<\/p>\n
It struck during Wednesday\u2019s morning rush hour, sending schoolchildren rushing outdoors and families fleeing their apartments through windows. The ground floors of some buildings collapsed, leaving them leaning at precarious angles. <\/p>\n
Authorities did not send out the usual alerts because they were expecting a smaller quake.<\/p>\n
Around 200 residents near the epicentre were staying in temporary shelters or tents on Thursday following hundreds of aftershocks. <\/p>\n
Dozens of workers who had been unable to leave a quarry because of damaged roads were freed, and six workers from another quarry were airlifted out.<\/p>\n
Some 700 employees and guests at a hotel in the national park remained cut off, but authorities said they were safe and had food and water.<\/p>\n
1712286714Australian and Canadian nationals among 18 missing after Taiwan earthquakeTaiwanese rescuers looked for 18 people still missing on Friday after a 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck the island\u2019s mountainous and scenic east coast.<\/p>\n
Taiwan\u2019s fire department put the number of people still missing at 18, including four foreigners previously listed as being Indian, Canadian and Australian whose location it said was unknown.<\/p>\n
Another six people are missing on a hiking trail, and a 45-person rescue team is trying to reach them, it added.<\/p>\n
Rescuers have confirmed that around 400 people cut off at a luxury hotel in the Taroko Gorge national park are safe, and has been sending supplies with the help of helicopters and taking out those injured.<\/p>\n
Alisha Rahaman Sarkar5 April 2024 04:11<\/p>\n
1712267369Survivor says rocks began to fall \u2018like bullets’ One survivor of the Taiwan earthquake has recalled how tremors unleashed rockslides \u201clike bullets\u201d around the coal mine he was working at.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe mountain started raining rocks like bullets, we had nowhere to escape to, everyone ran beside the sandbags for cover,\u201d the survivor, identified by his surname Chu, told Taiwan\u2019s Central News Agency.<\/p>\n
Another woman who worked opposite the collapsed Uranus building in Hualien city, told the BBC: \u201cIt was so shaky I could barely walk. I was really scared. I felt my legs were not in control anymore. Thanks to my colleagues, they dragged me so we could get out.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThere was a lot of dust coming into our building on our way out… We [later] realised that it came from the building across the street that had partially collapsed.\u201d <\/p>\n
Holly Evans4 April 2024 22:49<\/p>\n
1712264107In pictures: The damage(CNA\/AFP via Getty Images)Jane Dalton4 April 2024 21:55<\/p>\n
1712259017Taiwan rocked by 400 aftershocks Full report:<\/p>\n
Jane Dalton4 April 2024 20:30<\/p>\n
1712253737Search for missing goes on as miners freedRescuers searched Thursday for missing people and worked to reach hundreds stranded.<\/p>\n
Liu Zhong-da, a 58-year-old construction worker, and his colleague were on their way to work on a road in the national park and were inside a tunnel when the quake hit. A boulder blocked their exit and they were trapped along with some other people.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe almost got covered up,\u201d Liu said. \u201cNo communication could be made (to the outside world).\u201d Liu and his colleague were rescued Thursday afternoon and received a quick medical checkup outside the park.<\/p>\n
About 60 workers who had been unable to leave a quarry because of damaged roads were also freed, authorities said. Six workers from another quarry were airlifted out.<\/p>\n
A relative hugs a man who was rescued (REUTERS)Jane Dalton4 April 2024 19:02<\/p>\n
1712250026Watch: TV presenters rocked by quake during live broadcastTV presenters rocked by Taiwan earthquake during live broadcastTaiwan\u2019s SETTV captured the moment when the magnitude 7.4 earthquake hit live as a female presenter described strong shaking while trying to keep her balance. The powerful earthquake that struck Taiwan on Wednesday (April 3) was captured by the cameras in a newsroom during a live broadcast. As the quake hit, anchors on air kept speaking and delivering news while the studio was visibly shaking. The quake violently jolted eastern Taiwan\u2019s Hualien at 7:58am local time,causing several buildings to collapse. The Central Weather Administration has recorded more than 300 aftershocks from Wednesday morning into Thursday.<\/p>\n
Jane Dalton4 April 2024 18:00<\/p>\n
1712246306Watch: Moment nurses rush to protect newborn babies during earthquakeTaiwan: Moment nurses rush to protect newborn babies during earthquakeThis is the moment nurses at a Taiwan hospital rush to help newborn babies as a deadly earthquake struck. A nurse shared the video of her and her colleagues holding onto newborn baby cots to keep them safe during the earthquake which hit in the early hours of 3 April. Four members of staff in the maternity unit can be seen scrambling to keep the cots still, as the building begins to shake. At least 10 people have now been confirmed dead after a 7.4-magnitude powerful earthquake struck. More than 1,000 people were injured and more than 40 remained trapped on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Jane Dalton4 April 2024 16:58<\/p>\n
1712241926Roads still closed but rail service resumesSome residents of the eastern coastal city of Hualien near the epicentre of the quake were staying in tents, and the main road linking the county to the capital, Taipei, was still closed on Thursday afternoon, but much of Taiwan\u2018s day-to-day life has returned to normal. <\/p>\n
Some local rail service to Hualien resumed, and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co, one of the world\u2019s most important manufacturers of computer chips, restarted most operations, the Central News Agency reported.<\/p>\n
The powerful quake struck during the morning rush hour a day earlier, sending schoolchildren rushing outdoors and families fleeing their apartments through the windows. <\/p>\n
The ground floors of some buildings collapsed, leaving them leaning at precarious angles. Though the island is regularly rattled by earthquakes and generally well prepared, authorities did not send out the usual alerts because they were expecting a smaller temblor.<\/p>\n
People look on as workers carry out operations while on an elevated platform of a firefighting truck at the site where a building collapsed (REUTERS)Jane Dalton4 April 2024 15:45<\/p>\n
1712238007Hotel staff found safeRescue workers have found most of the roughly 50 hotel workers marooned on a main road as they headed to a resort in the Taroko Gorge national park.<\/p>\n
They also reached the hotel in the gorge, cut off by the quake, and established all 400 people there were safe. The fire department said work would continue in the morning to re-open the road.<\/p>\n
The discovery of a dead body on a hiking trail near the entrance to the gorge took the total deaths to 10.<\/p>\n
The agriculture ministry urged people to keep away from the mountains because of the risk of falling rocks and the formation of \u201cbarrier lakes\u201d as water pools behind unstable debris.<\/p>\n
Two trapped workers of Taroko National Park have a physical examination after being rescued (AP)Jane Dalton4 April 2024 14:40<\/p>\n
1712235896Six miners plucked to safety A helicopter has plucked to safety six people stranded in a mining area, and confirmed all were safe.<\/p>\n
The rescue of the miners, who had been trapped on a cliff, was dramatic after the quake cut off roads into Hualien\u2019s soaring mountains, footage showed.<\/p>\n
The authorities said four foreigners remained unaccounted for – one Canadian, one Indian and two Australians.<\/p>\n
A drone view shows mine workers trapped in a landslide-struck mountainous area (via REUTERS)Jane Dalton4 April 2024 14:04<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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