{"id":5405,"date":"2024-04-04T07:35:33","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T07:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/?p=5405"},"modified":"2024-04-04T07:35:34","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T07:35:34","slug":"there-has-been-a-7-3-magnitude-earthquake-in-chinese-taipei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/?p=5405","title":{"rendered":"There has been a 7.3-magnitude earthquake in Chinese Taipei"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">4 April 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Ministry of Natural Resources issued a red alert for a tsunami, which was later downgraded to an orange alert.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Hualien, Chinese Taipei, a 7.3-magnitude earthquake caused work and school classes to be suspended on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the China Earthquake Networks Centre, the quake struck at 7:58 am on Wednesday (Beijing Time) and its epicentre was located at 23.81 degrees north latitude and 121.74 degrees east longitude, at a depth of 12 kilometers. The Ministry of Natural Resources warning centre issued a red alert for a tsunami soon after the earthquake. It later issued an orange alert for tsunami.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chinese Taipei&#8217;s meteorological agency measured the quake as 7.2 magnitude, saying it was the strongest earthquake to hit the island in 25 years since a deadly earthquake struck on 21 September 1999.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the agency, the earthquake was monitored at a depth of 15.5 km. The epicentre was located 25 km south-southeast of Hualien. The maximum intensity recorded was 6 magnitude in Hualien County. Local authorities have announced the suspension of work and school classes in Hualien.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Multiple residential buildings partially collapsed in Hualien, forcing the evacuation of hundreds of residents. Falling rocks were also reported in hilly areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A rubber factory building in New Taipei City collapsed due to the quake. Subways in multiple counties and cities on the island have been temporarily suspended. Taipei&#8217;s metro system resumed operation after being suspended for around one hour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"584\" height=\"776\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/photo_2024-04-04_10-55-39.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5406\" style=\"width:843px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/photo_2024-04-04_10-55-39.jpg 584w, https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/photo_2024-04-04_10-55-39-226x300.jpg 226w, https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/photo_2024-04-04_10-55-39-9x12.jpg 9w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>4 April 2024 The Ministry of Natural Resources issued a red alert for a tsunami, which was later<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5407,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5405\/revisions\/5407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}