Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/12/03
By: Wang Shwu-fen and Romulo Huang

Taipei, Dec. 3 (CNA) An earthquake measuring 5.3 on the Richter scale hit eastern Taiwan

(From the Central Weather Bureau website)

Thursday night, according to the Central Weather Bureau.

The tremor took place at 10:31 p.m., with the epicenter located at sea about 35.1 kilometers southeast of Taitung County Hall at a depth of 19.4 km.

The strongest temblor posted an intensity of 4 on Taiwan’s 7-tiered intensity scale was felt in the outlying Green Island. Meanwhile it measured an intensity of 3 in Taitung City; 2 in cities of Pintung, Kaohsiung, Tainan, Chiayi and Hualien; 1 in Nantou and Changhua counties.