REORGANIZATION: The Central Weather Bureau changed its evaluation of a string of quakes, determining that a quake on Sunday was a foreshock to Tuesday’s temblor
Taipei Times
Date: Feb 08, 2018
By: Shelley Shan / Staff reporter
Seven people were killed and 260 injured after a magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck off
Firefighters head toward the quake-hit Yun Men Tsui Ti building in Hualien yesterday.
Photo: CNA
the coast of Hualien County on Tuesday night, the Central Emergency Operation Center said yesterday.
The center’s data showed that four buildings in Hualien City had collapsed or tilted due to the earthquake: the Marshal Hotel (統帥飯店), the Yun Men Tsui Ti (雲門翠堤大樓) commercial and residential building and two apartment buildings on Guosheng 6th Street.
As of 9:30pm yesterday, 67 people were reported missing, 39 of whom were thought to have been in the Yun Men Tsui Ti building.
However, rescue efforts at the Yun Men Tsui Ti building have been precarious, with the building tilting ever more toward the ground amid multiple aftershocks. [FULL STORY]