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Hope fades of finding more survivors after Taiwan quake

The Philadelphia Post
Date: February 10, 2018

HUALIEN, Taiwan — Hopes of finding additional survivors from this week’s earthquake in Taiwan were fading Friday after two more bodies were found in a partially collapsed hotel and no signs detected of a missing family of five.

A magnitude-6.4 earthquake struck Tuesday near the coast of Taiwan, officials said.

Chen Minghui, a maintenance worker who was rescued after being trapped in the hotel’s basement, said the force of the earthquake was unusual.

“At first it wasn’t that big … we get this sort of thing all the time and its really nothing. But then it got really terrifying,” Chen said after he was reunited with his son and grandson. “It was really scary.”    [FULL  STORY]

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