Magnitude 6.1 Earthquake Strikes Off Taiwan's East Coast
A magnitude 6.1 tremor with an epicenter off the coast of Hualien in eastern Taiwan caused shaking across the country early Saturday morning. A 5.8 magnitude tremor followed shortly after. There are no initial reports of fatalities or injuries.
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00:00 A series of earthquakes rocked Taiwan overnight. A magnitude 6.1 tremor with an epicenter off
00:07 the coast of Hualien in eastern Taiwan hit just after 2 a.m. Saturday. A 5.8 magnitude
00:13 tremor followed half an hour later, with smaller aftershocks throughout the morning. There
00:19 were no initial reports of fatalities or injuries. The country's weather administration sent
00:25 out an alert to mobile phones across Taiwan. It was the first time many people received
00:30 one since the magnitude 7.2 earthquake that struck Hualien in early April, killing 17
00:37 people. Over 1,000 aftershocks have been recorded since that tremor.
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