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The Taiwan Meteorological and Hydrological Center subsequently issued a tsunami warning after the earthquake and evacuated residents in disaster-prone areas to safe locations.
A five-story building in Hualien suffered extensive damage, with the first floor collapsing and the rest tilting at a 45-degree angle. In the capital Taipei, bricks fell from older buildings and in some new office complexes. Train and subway services were suspended across the island of 23 million people.
The building collapse in Taiwan has had an impact on the country.
Train services across the island, as well as subway services in Taipei, have been suspended. Taiwan's earthquake monitoring agency said the earthquake measured 7.2 on the Richter scale, while the U.S. Geological Survey recorded it at 7.5.
Taiwan's earthquake monitoring agency reported the earthquake's magnitude as 7.2 on the Richter scale, while the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) put it at 7.4. It occurred at 7:58 a.m. local time on April 3rd, approximately 18 kilometers south-southwest of Hualien and at a depth of about 35 kilometers.
The earthquake is believed to be the largest in Taiwan since the devastating 1999 earthquake. Taiwan lies along the Pacific "Ring of Fire," a seismic fault line encircling the Pacific Ocean where most of the world's earthquakes occur.
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