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Taiwan Earthquake Today News: A strong earthquake hit Taiwan's east shortly before 8 am local time on Wednesday, April 3, prompting tsunami warnings for the self-ruled island as well as parts of southern Japan..
The Philippines also issued a tsunami warning and ordered the evacuation of coastal areas after the Taiwan quake.P)..
While the United States Geological Survey or USGS said the earthquake had a magnitude of 7.4, with its epicentre 18 kilometres south of Taiwan's Hualien City at a depth of 34.8 km, Japan's Meteorological Agency put the magnitude at 7.7..
Taiwan earthquake: Latest updatesThe earthquake offshore Taiwan rocked Taipei, the capital, knocking out power in several parts of the city.Taiwan television stations showed footage of some collapsed buildings in Hualien, near the quake's epicentre, and media reported some people were trapped..
The quake could be felt as far as Shanghai, according to a Reuters witness.The epicentre was just off the coast of eastern county of Hualien, in waters off the eastern coastline of Taiwan Island, the Taiwan central weather administration said.Tsunami waves as high as three metres were expected immediately for remote Japanese islands in the region, including Miyakojima island, reports claimed..
