Earthquake — Taiwan: Tainan

When

5 Feb 2016

Kind

Earthquake

Magnitude

6.4

Where

Taiwan

Coordinates

22.94° N, 120.60° E

Deaths

117

Injuries

525

Damage musd

700

Intensity mmi

8

Depth km

23

Deadly earthquake centered north of Pingtung City, Taiwan

At 03:57 local time on 6 February 2016, an earthquake with a moment magnitude of 6.4 struck 28 km (17 mi) northeast of Pingtung City in southern Taiwan, in the Meinong District of Kaohsiung. The earthquake struck at a depth of around 23 km (14 mi). Its comparatively shallow depth caused more intense reverberations on the surface.

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• NCEI significant earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptionsNOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPublic domainSource page
• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “An earthquake of magnitude 6.6 strikes southern Taiwan, killing 117 people”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Bei einem Erdbeben auf Taiwan sterben mindestens 115 Menschen und 550 Menschen werden verletzt”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en Taiwán, un terremoto de 6,4 grados de la Escala de Mercalli dejó más de 500 heridos, 116 muertos y un desaparecido”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Chinese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “台湾高雄市美浓区发生台灣自1999年921大地震後傷亡最慘重的地震，強度為里氏震级6.6，其中台南市因為場址效應導致災情較震央附近的高雄市更為嚴重。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page