Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/07/04
By: Chen Wei-ting and Hsu Hsiao-ling

Photo courtesy of the Central Weather Bureau

Taipei, July 4 (CNA) An earthquake registering a magnitude of 4.2 hit southern Taiwan at 3:45 p.m. Wednesday, the Central Weather Bureau (CWB) reported that day.

The quake’s epicenter was located about 50 kilometers northwest of Taitung County Hall at a depth of about 11 km, according to the CWB’s Seismology Center.

It was felt the most strongly in Kaohsiung’s Taoyuan District, where it registered an intensity of 4 on Taiwan’s 7-tier intensity scale. Chiayi and Taitung recorded an intensity of 2, while Tainan and Yunlin registered 1.

Five earthquakes, two with a magnitude of 4.5, two at 4.6 and one at 4.2, have rocked the southern part of the country between Monday and Wednesday, according to the CWB.
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