2 people killed after earthquakes hit Taiwan, Philippines

[RetTurtl3]

2 people killed after earthquakes hit Taiwan, Philippines

[QUOTE]TAIPEI, Taiwan -- A strong earthquake jolted Taiwan on Sunday, killing two people and injuring at least 21 others and causing panicked shoppers to rush out of a shaking multi-story department store, officials said.

Another earthquake jolted the southern Philippines late Saturday, injuring at least 33 people and damaging more than 140 houses.

The tremor that hit Taiwan on Sunday afternoon was felt all over the island, but most severely in the central and southern regions. The magnitude-6.3 quake's epicenter was near Jenai township in Nantou County in central Taiwan, about 250 kilometres south of Taipei, the Central Weather Bureau said.

In Mountain Ali in the southern part of the island, a man was killed by a rockslide while driving a car on a mountain road, the Taiwan Fire Agency said in a statement. Another man was killed by a falling rock when he was working at a farm in Chushan, near the epicenter.

Rockslides at a scenic mountainous area near the epicenter injured several people, the agency said. In all, 21 people were injured by the earthquake, many by fallen objects.
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[ignhelper]

Eh when I was back in Taiwan nobody gives a fuck about earthquakes. The whole lights can be shaking in Carrefour and everybody continues with groceries.

[RetTurtl3]

[QUOTE=Ignhelper;40876325]Eh when I was back in Taiwan nobody gives a fuck about earthquakes. The whole lights can be shaking in Carrefour and everybody continues with groceries.[/QUOTE]

It's on the news so they must care, else it wouldn't be on there!

[joshuadim]

Anyone else notice the large spike in the amount of earthquakes recently?

[🦇Pachira🦇]

I hope my friend in the Philippines is okay, I haven't seen him in ages.