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 …
A magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck central Taiwan on Wednesday shaking rural Nantou County (located about 250 km south of the capital of Taipei) was felt throughout the island, according to catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide. Buildings swayed in Taipei for …
A strong earthquake has been felt throughout Taiwan, but no casualties or damage has been reported yet. The Central Weather Bureau says the quake Thursday registered at magnitude 5.6. The tremor struck about 23 miles (37 kilometers) north of Hualien …
More than 2,000 people have evacuated homes as a tropical storm causes flooding in Taiwan. Tropical storm Talim was disrupting air and rail traffic Wednesday. Landslides buried a section of highway. Television reports say seawater rushed through a broken dike …
A powerful earthquake has struck off northeastern Taiwan, but there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage. Taiwan’s Central Weather Bureau says the quake registered magnitude 6.5, while the U.S. Geological Survey puts it at 5.5. The earthquake struck …
A typhoon that flooded homes, roads and farmland in Taiwan with more than 20 inches (half a meter) of rain left the island Monday and headed to southeastern China. Typhoon Nanmadol stayed over Taiwan for only a few hours and …