Japan: Magnitude 6.1 earthquake strikes off east coast of Honshu
World | April 04, 2024 9:38 ISTThe earthquake struck at 03:16 UTC with a depth of 10 kilometers. Further details regarding the impact and potential damage are yet to be disclosed.
The earthquake struck at 03:16 UTC with a depth of 10 kilometers. Further details regarding the impact and potential damage are yet to be disclosed.
This call was the first communication between Xi Jinping and Joe Biden since their historic in-person meeting in California last year. During Tuesday's call, Biden also pressed China over its relationship with Russia and human rights concerns in Hong Kong.
An earthquake offshore Taiwan with a magnitude of 7.2 rocked the capital Taipei on Wednesday (April 3) morning, knocking out power in several parts of the city and sparking a tsunami warning for the islands of southern Japan and the Philippines. Watch to know more!
Earlier in the day, PM Modi expressed his condolences for the loss of lives in Taiwan and said India stood in soldiarity with the people during the aftermath of the earthquake. So far, nine people have been killed in Taiwan and more than 900 others were injured.
So far, at least nine people have been killed and over 900 people have been injured following the 7.2 magnitude earthquake that struck Taiwan on Wednesday. Residual aftershocks in the island country also caused 24 landslides and damage to 35 roads, bridges and tunnels.
An earthquake offshore Taiwan with a magnitude of 7.2 rocked the capital Taipei on 3rd April, knocking out power in several parts of the city and sparking a tsunami warning for the islands of southern Japan and the Philippines. But Taiwan often gets hit by earthquakes, what's the reason?
Government statistics showed 736 people were injured and 77 stranded. The quake and aftershocks also caused 24 landslides and damage to 35 roads, bridges and tunnels.
A 7.2 magnitude earthquake rocked Taiwan on Wednesday, the strongest tremor to hit the island in at least 25 years, shaking buildings from their foundations and sparking a tsunami warning for the islands of southern Japan and the Philippines.
Taiwan earthquake LIVE: Taiwan's official central news agency said the quake was the biggest to hit the island since 1999 when a 7.6 magnitude tremor killed around 2,400 people and destroyed or damaged 50,000 buildings in one of Taiwan's worst-recorded quakes.
Taiwan was hit by a strong 7.2 magnitude earthquake on early Wednesday damaging several buildings in a southern city and creating a tsunami that washed ashore on southern Japanese islands.
Taiwan earthquake: Taiwan television stations showed footage of some collapsed buildings in Hualien, near the quake's epicentre, and media reported some people were trapped.
Taiwan Earthquake: A powerful earthquake struck Taiwan early Wednesday, rocking the entire island and collapsing buildings following which Japan issued a tsunami alert.
This is the first communication between the two leaders since they held a high-level meeting in California last November. Biden raised concerns over human rights abuses in China, Taiwan, South China Sea and Beijing's defence relationship with Russia in his call with Xi.
Last month, China increased patrols near a group of islands controlled by Taiwan after two Chinese fishermen drowned while being chased by the Taiwanese coast guard. China accused the ruling DPP of using violent methods, while Taiwan's coast guard insisted that it acted as per law.
China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Washington's increasing sanctions on Chinese companies had reached "bewildering levels of unfathomable absurdity". Tensions between the two superpowers have slightly eased since Biden and Xi staged their landmark summit last year in San Francisco.
The Taiwanese Foreign Ministry apologised for the comments made by Hsu Ming-chun wherein she said: the island nation may start recruiting migrant workers from India’s northeast region where people have similar skin colour and diets like us".
China condemned Taiwan after the deaths of Chinese fishermen and accused the ruling Democratic Progressive Party of forcefully inspecting Chinese fishing vessels. However, Taiwan maintains its coast guard officers were acting as per the law and the Chinese vessel was trespassing.
The Central American country is one of a handful of Taiwan's remaining allies, as countries increasingly side with the world's second-largest economy China, which claims democratically-ruled Taiwan as its territory.
Han Kuo-yu, the former presidential candidate of the opposition party Kuomintang (KMT), was defeated in the elections by the ruling party's Tsai Ing-wen in 2020. Han visited China and supports the 'one China' policy, but denies being pro-Beijing.
The US Navy said the USS John Finn transited through a corridor in the Taiwan Strait, which was "beyond the territorial sea of any coastal state". The development came after China agreed to resume military contacts with the US at a meeting last November between Presidents Joe Biden and Xi Jinping.
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