At 12:48 on Tuesday afternoon, an earthquake measuring 5.4 on the Richter scale occurred in Hualien County’s Sioulin Township. In Yilan it was a magnitude 5 earthquake and, while it was only magnitude 2 in Taipei, the earthquake was still considerable, and lasted for more than 10 seconds. At the time, there was a meeting of the legislature’s Transportation Committee, and the committee members felt the force of the quake. There was a succession of another four quakes, measuring between 3.5 to 3.8 in intensity, in the minutes before and after the main tremor, the epicenter being within between 1km and 2km of the initial quake. Within the space of 49 minutes, there were as many as five earthquakes in the area around that same location.
(Liberty Times, translated by Paul Cooper)
星期二中午十二點四十八分，花蓮縣秀林鄉出現起芮氏規模高達五點四的地震，宜蘭有五級震度，台北雖僅二級，但搖晃程度頗大，延續十幾秒，立院交委會進行中，與會人員都感到搖晃威力，之前與之後幾分鐘連續出現四個規模三點五到三點八的地震，震央都在原來震央一到二公里內，總計四十九分鐘內，同地點附近高達五起地震。
(自由時報記者黃立翔)
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