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A 6.0-magnitude earthquake hit Taiwan on Tuesday, the US Geological Survey said, injuring 27 people, triggering landslides and causing ceilings of homes to cave in according to local authorities.

At least 17 people were killed in that quake, which triggered landslides and severely damaged buildings around Hualien. April's earthquake was the most serious in Taiwan since it was struck by a 7 ...

After a strong earthquake hit Taiwan on January 21, 2025, an old picture of a tilting building resurfaced in ... 6.4. The ceilings of several homes collapsed, while roads were blocked by falling ...

A magnitude 6.4 earthquake and several aftershocks battered southern Taiwan early this morning, causing houses and roads to collapse and leaving dozens ... eight people who were originally trapped ...

(Photo: AFP/Johnson Liu) A collapsed wall of a ... landslides and severely damaged buildings around Hualien. April's earthquake was the most serious in Taiwan since it was struck by a 7.6 ...

A powerful magnitude 6.4 earthquake shook buildings in Taiwan, injuring at least 15 residents ... whose family was among those rescued from a collapsed house in Tainan. Last year, a magnitude ...

Chipmaker TSMC said it had evacuated staff at its factories in central and southern Taiwan, and they were all safe. The earthquake shook buildings ... were rescued from a collapsed house in ...

TAIPEI: A 6.0-magnitude earthquake hit Taiwan on Tuesday ... people briefly trapped in a collapsed house and two stuck in elevators. The shallow quake caused buildings in the capital Taipei ...

TAIPEI - A 6.4-magnitude earthquake ... caused buildings in the capital Taipei to shake as it struck at 12.17am local time, 12km north of Yujing, a mango-growing district in southern Taiwan.

Taiwan has a history of devastating earthquakes ... It was centred near Nantou County and resulted in the collapse of thousands of buildings, leaving over 100,000 people homeless.