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A powerful earthquake shook much of Taiwan yesterday, toppling a three-story building, temporarily trapping four people inside, and leaving about 400 tourists on a mountainside.
The 6.8-magnitude quake on the Richer scale was the largest of dozens that shook the island’s southeastern coast since Saturday night, when a 6.4-magnitude earthquake hit the same area. There were no immediate reports of serious injuries.
Most of the damage occurred north of the epicenter, which Taiwan’s Central Meteorological Bureau said was in Chishang city. A three-story building, which had a convenience store on the ground floor and residences on the upper floors, collapsed in the nearby town of Yuli, the island’s Central News Agency reported.
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