14 people died in one building in Hualien after the Feb. 6, 2018 quake
Taiwan News
Date: 2019/10/08
By: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
The Yun Men Tsui Ti building in Hualien shortly after the February 2018 earthquake.
The Yun Men Tsui Ti building in Hualien shortly after the February 2018 earthquake. (By Central News Agency)
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – The developer, the architect and a civil engineer were sentenced to five years in prison Tuesday (October 8) for the collapse of the Yun Men Tsui Ti Building (雲門翠堤) in Hualien which killed 14 people during an earthquake in February last year.
Appeals were still possible against the Hualien District Court verdict, the Central News Agency reported.
The magnitude-6.0 quake struck at 11:50 p.m. on February 6, 2018, and registered a maximum intensity of 7 in the east coast city. The 12-story Yun Men Tsui Ti, which also housed a hotel, partly collapsed within eight seconds of the quake.
While the total death toll reached 17, 14 of those died in the building, raising questions about its construction process.