Magnitude 4.9 temblor rattles Taiwan’s Hualien County with intensity level 6 shock waves
Taiwan News
Date: 2018/12/12
By: Keoni Everington, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
CWB map of tonight’s quake.
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — A magnitude 4.9 earthquake rattled the eastern Taiwan County of Hualien at 9:24 p.m. tonight, according the Central Weather Bureau (CWB).
The epicenter of the quake was 13.3 kilometers southwest of Hualien County Hall, at a shallow depth of 12 kilometers.
The earthquake’s intensity, which gauges the actual effect of a temblor, registered a 6 on Taiwan’s 7-tiered intensity scale in Hualien County, a 3 in Nantou County,
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