{"id":2334,"date":"2025-01-21T15:58:43","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T15:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/republicanstradetoday.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/21\/a-magnitude-6-earthquake-hits-southern-taiwan-leaving-15-people-with-minor-injuries\/"},"modified":"2025-01-21T15:58:43","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T15:58:43","slug":"a-magnitude-6-earthquake-hits-southern-taiwan-leaving-15-people-with-minor-injuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/republicanstradetoday.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/21\/a-magnitude-6-earthquake-hits-southern-taiwan-leaving-15-people-with-minor-injuries\/","title":{"rendered":"A magnitude 6 earthquake hits southern Taiwan, leaving 15 people with minor injuries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm65qudst008q26pf176c1qig@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            <strong>Taipei, Taiwan (AP) \u2014<\/strong> An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of six struck southern Taiwan early Tuesday, according to the US Geological Survey, leaving 15 people with minor injuries.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm65qwljw00073b6m4ffts0xl@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            The quake hit at 12:17 a.m. local time, with its epicenter 12 kilometers (7 miles) north of Yujing at a preliminary depth of 10 kilometers (6 miles), USGS said. Taiwan\u2019s Central Weather Administration recorded a magnitude of 6.4.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm65qwljx00083b6mty8oplcs@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            There were no immediate reports of deaths from the quake, though rescuers were still assessing damage.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm65qwljx00093b6mj1bzjihu@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Taiwan\u2019s fire department said 15 people were sent to the hospital for minor injuries. Among them were six people, including one child, who were rescued from a collapsed house in Nanxi District, Tainan city. The Zhuwei bridge on a provincial highway was reported to be damaged.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm65qwljx000a3b6mjwlll9u9@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Last April, a magnitude 7.4 quake hit the island\u2019s mountainous eastern coast of Hualien, killing at least 13 people and injuring more than 1,000 others. The strongest earthquake in 25 years was followed by hundreds of aftershocks.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm65qwljx000b3b6mxfkj42tg@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Taiwan lies along the Pacific \u201cRing of Fire,\u201d the line of seismic faults encircling the Pacific Ocean where most of the world\u2019s earthquakes occur.    <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taipei, Taiwan (AP) \u2014 An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of six struck southern Taiwan early Tuesday, according to the US Geological Survey, leaving 15 people with minor injuries. 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