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| Taiwan Rocked by Earthquake, 2nd Temblor in 12 Hours |
| 2004-11-11 |
| Taiwan was rocked by a 6.0 magnitude earthquake, the second temblor to hit the island in about 12 hours. No casualties were immediately reported. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. and United Microelectronics Corp., the world's two largest producers of made- to-order chips, said the quake had no immediate impact on the companies, according to Taiwan Semiconductor spokesman J.H. Tzeng and United Microelectronics spokesman Alex Hinnawi. A quake with a magnitude of 6 can cause severe damage. The temblor, which struck at 10:16 a.m. local time, had an epicenter 46.8 kilometers (29 miles) offshore of east Taiwan and 13.9 kilometers deep, the Central Weather Bureau said. A quake with a magnitude of 5.5 struck the island at 10:48 p.m. last night, causing buildings to sway in the capital of Taipei. Taiwan, which sits along faults between the Philippine Sea and Eurasian Continental tectonic plates, gets struck by an average 200 earthquakes a year, according to the Weather Bureau. Quakes occur as the plates push together. On Oct. 15, Taiwan was struck by a quake with a magnitude of 7, the strongest since a Sept. 21, 1999, temblor with a magnitude of 7.6 that killed 2,500 people and caused an estimated $9 billion in damage. |
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