Earthquake measuring 5.7 jolts Taiwan`
Philippine Times
Sunday 11th May, 2008
(IANS)
An earthquake measuring 5.7 on the Richter scale jolted Taiwan early Sunday morning, but there was no report of damage or casualties.
The quake struck at 3.42 a.m. (1942 GMT Saturday), with its epicentre 85.1 km off Hualien on Taiwan's east coast, the Seismological Observation Centre said.
Taiwan sits on the circum-Pacific seismic belt, also known as the Pacific Ring of Fire. Nearly 90 percent of the world's earthquakes and 80 percent of its largest earthquakes occur along this belt.
About 200 quakes of a magnitude of 4 or more jolt Taiwan each year, with a dozen of them above magnitude 5. Most of these tremors occur off Taiwan's east coast, caused by the friction between the Philippine and Eurasian Plates.
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| By Anonymous, 05-12-08, 11:33 AM |
DUMB postWhat a dumb and insensitive post by Carrie, please spare the public with such stupidity on human tragedies. |
| By Carrie, 05-11-08, 05:57 PM |
Earthquake measuring 5.7 jolts Taiwan`This is cool but the story could be a bit longer. |
| By ptl, 05-12-08, 07:12 AM |
earthquake...cool? an earthquake is not as cool as some people think... earthquake is always a tragedy, luckily no damage or casualty. taiwan has a lot of bad memories about earthquake and most countries that are situated in this so called pacific ring of fire. Just like now at this very moment a major earthquake is reported in China and maybe a lot of people are dead. |
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