CWB ‘can’t rule out’ an even bigger quake, after over 100 aftershocks have followed a deadly magnitude 6.0 earthquake in eastern Taiwan

Taiwan News 
Date: 2018/02/07
By: Keoni Everington, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — After eastern Taiwan’s Hualien County was struck by a deadly 6.0 magnitude earthquake last night (Feb. 6) and as the area has been plagued by hundreds of smaller quakes throughout the week, the Central Weather Bureau (CWB) cannot rule out the possibility that even larger earthquake is coming soon.

On Monday, after a magnitude 5.8 earthquake hit Hualien on Sunday, the Central Weather Bureau (CWB) counted 94 aftershocks, 40 within the first three hours after the main earthquake struck, and three of which measured over 5.0. The largest aftershock measured at 5.4.

The CWB initially reported that the aftershocks from Sunday’s quake would decrease in size, however from Monday to Tuesday the opposite occurred.     [FULL  STORY]