Magnitude 4.0 temblor rattles northeastern Taiwan's Yilan County

Taiwan News
Date: 2019/12/11
By: Sophia Yang, Taiwan News, Staff Writer\

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — A magnitude 4.0 earthquake shook northeastern Taiwan's Yilan County at 10:02 p.m. this evening (Dec. 11), according to the Central Weather Bureau (CWB).

The epicenter of the temblor was located 14.0 kilometers east-northeast of Yilan County Hall at a shallow depth of 7.7 kilometers, based on CWB data. Taiwan uses an intensity scale of 1 to 7, which gauges the degree to which a quake is felt at a specific location.    [FULL  STORY]