{"id":1587292,"date":"2024-04-03T01:29:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T01:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rfa.org\/english\/news\/china\/taiwan-quake-04022024212638.html"},"modified":"2024-04-03T01:29:00","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T01:29:00","slug":"magnitude-7-5-quake-strikes-taiwan-triggering-tsunami-alert-for-okinawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2024\/04\/03\/magnitude-7-5-quake-strikes-taiwan-triggering-tsunami-alert-for-okinawa\/","title":{"rendered":"Magnitude 7.5 quake strikes Taiwan, triggering tsunami alert for Okinawa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n        \n        <p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck Taiwan on Wednesday morning, shaking buildings off their foundations and prompting Japan to issue a tsunami alert for its southern island of Okinawa.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The epicenter of the quake, which struck at 7:58 a.m., was off the eastern coast of Taiwan, about 25 kilometers (15.5 miles) south-southeast of Hualien County Hall, at a depth of 15.5 kilometers, according to Taiwan\u2019s Central Weather Administration, or CWA.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">TV broadcasters showed images of collapsed buildings in Hualien, reporting that people were trapped inside.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe height=\"314\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CZvA9wWwlBA\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The earthquake\u2019s impact was felt across the island, leading to the suspension of metro services in Taipei, Taichung, and Kaohsiung.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The quake was magnitude 7.5, according to the United States Geological Survey, while Taiwan\u2019s CWA said it was 7.2.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was the biggest to hit the island since 1999, when a magnitude 7.6 tremor killed around 2,400 people, said Taiwan\u2019s official central news agency.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After the initial quake, the island was rattled by a strong aftershock of magnitude 6.5, the USGS said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><b>3-meter tsunami expected<\/b><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Japan\u2019s Meteorological Agency issued an evacuation advisory for Okinawa\u2019s coastal regions due to an expected tsunami, with waves up to 3 meters forecasted along the southwestern coast.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<figure><img alt=\"ENG_CHN_TaiwanQuake_04032024_02.JPG\" class=\"image-richtext image-inline\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rfa.org\/english\/news\/china\/eng_chn_taiwanquake_04032024_02.jpg\/@@images\/52772c62-86bc-4c40-b2b6-f5652f7dc907.jpeg\" title=\"ENG_CHN_TaiwanQuake_04032024_02.JPG\"\/>\n<figcaption>A partially collapsed building is seen after an earthquake in Hualien, eastern Taiwan on Wednesday, April 3, 2024. (TVBS via AP)<br\/><br\/><\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Philippines\u2019 Seismology Agency has similarly warned residents in several coastal provinces to seek higher ground.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The quake could be felt as far as Shanghai, according to a Reuters witness, while Chinese state-run media reported that it was felt in Fuzhou, Xiamen, Quanzhou and Ningde in China's Fujian province.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Edited by Malcolm Foster.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n        \n    \n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\"><br>\r\nThis content originally appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rfa.org\/english\/news\/china\/taiwan-quake-04022024212638.html\" >Radio Free Asia<\/a> and was authored by By Taejun Kang for RFA.  <br><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2024\/04\/03\/magnitude-7-5-quake-strikes-taiwan-triggering-tsunami-alert-for-okinawa\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TV images show collapsed buildings in the eastern part of the island.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29754,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77671,44626,2242,42614,42620,70602,9594,68120,785,27149,27150,6656,817,77672,11522],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587292"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29754"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1587292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1587293,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587292\/revisions\/1587293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1587292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1587292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1587292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}