 An earthquake measuring 6.2 on the Richter scale has rattled Taiwan but there were no immediate reports of damage or casualties, the Seismology Centre said. The temblor hit at 6:40 am local time, with its epicentre 19.9 kilometres north-east of Taitung, a town in the island's south-east. It originated 11.7 kilometres beneath the seabed. "Aftershocks with a magnitude of more than 5.0 are expected to hit the south-east," an official at the centre said. Earlier the US Geological Survey had put the quake's magnitude at 5.8, with its epicentre 260 kilometres south of Taipei.
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