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The focus of a massive rescue effort was the 16-story Weiguan Jinlong residential building in Tainan, which buckled.Some 200 were pulled from the building that had been home to about 80 families, but as of 9 p.m. local time Saturday, there were still 156 missing from the building, according to the government’s forward command post in Tainan that deals with rescue work.At least 12 people died in that building, the Tainan City Fire Bureau said. Taiwan earthquake latest: Two dead and more than 200 injured after twin tremors strike island. Among the victims was a 10-day-old baby, Reuters reported.About 800 soldiers pitched in with the rescue effort.Kate Lao Shaffner, an English teacher who lives around 18 miles from the quake's epicenter, said the "extremely violent" shaking woke her entire family.Terrifyingly, Lao Shaffner and her husband weren't able to get to their oldest daughter's bedroom. Fan said the prompt outpouring of help showed that “Taiwanese will look after their countrymen.”.Another volunteer, Lin Hsin-hsuan, who came to help with two friends from neighboring Yilan County, prepared soup and rice noodles for police officers and firefighters working in the cold rain early Thursday morning at the Yun Men Tsui Ti building.Under what was once the building’s ground floor, rescuers continued to work among gnarled rebar, bricks and other debris, as humming generators powered emergency flood lights.The gray tile and glass building sits next to a park along the Meilun River. Their efforts were halted temporarily Wednesday as the supports began to slide and the building tilted more, local officials said.The bottom floors of another building, the Marshal Hotel, also collapsed. Earlier 6.4-magnitude tremor topples building trapping three people inside Right now we don’t know what will happen.”.Fan Chen-yuan, 30, was working the graveyard shift as a volunteer at the school.“Twenty seconds after the main quake, a large aftershock followed, and I couldn’t sleep,” he recalled in an interview.An hour later Mr.
The earthquake occurred at a depth of around 14 miles, and Tainan was the hardest hit city, the U.S. Geological Survey said. HUALIEN, Taiwan — Rescuers in Taiwan searched badly damaged buildings early Thursday, looking for scores of people missing after.The magnitude-6.4 quake struck at 11:50 p.m. Tuesday and was centered 14 miles northeast of the coastal city of Hualien.
The pattern of seismic activity that followed was stronger than anything that had previously been recorded in the area, Chen Kuo-chang, the acting director of the Central Weather Bureau’s Seismology Center.The mountainous east coast of Taiwan is less populated than its flatter western side. The area around my house is actually not that bad, the houses are all OK but, because of the aftershocks, I don't really want to stay there. Many modern buildings in Taiwan are constructed with earthquake safety in mind, including Taipei 101 , which had to cope with the dual challenges of being flexible enough to withstand earthquakes, yet rigid enough to resist wind shear. The magnitude-6.1 earthquake hit at 1:01 p.m. and was centered off the coast of Hualien, on Taiwan’s east coast, according to the United States Geological Service. ".The earthquake occurred at a depth of around 14 miles, and Tainan was the hardest hit city, the U.S. Geological Survey said.Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou said every effort was being taken to rescue survivors. Jillian has worked at NBC since May 2014.Get breaking news alerts and special reports. A powerful earthquake struck southern Taiwan Saturday, killing at least 14 people and leaving more than 150 people missing in one building alone, officials said.The 6.4-magnitude earthquake shook about 30 miles east of Tainan, a city of around 2 million, just before 4 a.m. local time (3 p.m. Friday ET), the U.S. Geological Survey said. A slightly more intense tremor was recorded in 1994, following an earthquake in the southern part of the Taiwan Strait.
The focus of a massive rescue effort was the 16-story Weiguan Jinlong residential building in Tainan, which buckled.Some 200 were pulled from the building that had been home to about 80 families, but as of 9 p.m. local time Saturday, there were still 156 missing from the building, according to the government’s forward command post in Tainan that deals with rescue work.At least 12 people died in that building, the Tainan City Fire Bureau said. Taiwan earthquake latest: Two dead and more than 200 injured after twin tremors strike island. Among the victims was a 10-day-old baby, Reuters reported.About 800 soldiers pitched in with the rescue effort.Kate Lao Shaffner, an English teacher who lives around 18 miles from the quake's epicenter, said the "extremely violent" shaking woke her entire family.Terrifyingly, Lao Shaffner and her husband weren't able to get to their oldest daughter's bedroom. Fan said the prompt outpouring of help showed that “Taiwanese will look after their countrymen.”.Another volunteer, Lin Hsin-hsuan, who came to help with two friends from neighboring Yilan County, prepared soup and rice noodles for police officers and firefighters working in the cold rain early Thursday morning at the Yun Men Tsui Ti building.Under what was once the building’s ground floor, rescuers continued to work among gnarled rebar, bricks and other debris, as humming generators powered emergency flood lights.The gray tile and glass building sits next to a park along the Meilun River. Their efforts were halted temporarily Wednesday as the supports began to slide and the building tilted more, local officials said.The bottom floors of another building, the Marshal Hotel, also collapsed. Earlier 6.4-magnitude tremor topples building trapping three people inside Right now we don’t know what will happen.”.Fan Chen-yuan, 30, was working the graveyard shift as a volunteer at the school.“Twenty seconds after the main quake, a large aftershock followed, and I couldn’t sleep,” he recalled in an interview.An hour later Mr.
The earthquake occurred at a depth of around 14 miles, and Tainan was the hardest hit city, the U.S. Geological Survey said. HUALIEN, Taiwan — Rescuers in Taiwan searched badly damaged buildings early Thursday, looking for scores of people missing after.The magnitude-6.4 quake struck at 11:50 p.m. Tuesday and was centered 14 miles northeast of the coastal city of Hualien.
The pattern of seismic activity that followed was stronger than anything that had previously been recorded in the area, Chen Kuo-chang, the acting director of the Central Weather Bureau’s Seismology Center.The mountainous east coast of Taiwan is less populated than its flatter western side. The area around my house is actually not that bad, the houses are all OK but, because of the aftershocks, I don't really want to stay there. Many modern buildings in Taiwan are constructed with earthquake safety in mind, including Taipei 101 , which had to cope with the dual challenges of being flexible enough to withstand earthquakes, yet rigid enough to resist wind shear. The magnitude-6.1 earthquake hit at 1:01 p.m. and was centered off the coast of Hualien, on Taiwan’s east coast, according to the United States Geological Service. ".The earthquake occurred at a depth of around 14 miles, and Tainan was the hardest hit city, the U.S. Geological Survey said.Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou said every effort was being taken to rescue survivors. Jillian has worked at NBC since May 2014.Get breaking news alerts and special reports. A powerful earthquake struck southern Taiwan Saturday, killing at least 14 people and leaving more than 150 people missing in one building alone, officials said.The 6.4-magnitude earthquake shook about 30 miles east of Tainan, a city of around 2 million, just before 4 a.m. local time (3 p.m. Friday ET), the U.S. Geological Survey said. A slightly more intense tremor was recorded in 1994, following an earthquake in the southern part of the Taiwan Strait.