Images on local television showed the Marshal Hotel in Hualien slanted on its side, partially crumpled into the ground.
Channel News Asia
Date: Feb 7, 2018
TAIPEI: A 6.4-magnitude quake on the east coast of Taiwan has left two dead and 214
Images on local television showed the Marshal Hotel in Hualien slanted on its side, partially crumpled into the ground.
injured, the government said, after buildings crumbled and trapped people inside.
About 150 people are missing, according to the government, with many believed to be still trapped inside buildings.
A hotel and a residential block were the worst hit by the quake in the port city of Hualien, said the national fire agency.
Five more buildings including a hospital had also been damaged, the agency added, with televison footage showing roads strewn with rubble, cracks along highways and damaged buildings tilted at angles.
Hualien, an area popular with tourists, is home to about 100,000 people. Its streets were buckled by the force of the quake, with around 40,000 homes left without water and more than 600 without power. [FULL STORY]