Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
06AITTAIPEI4192
2006-12-27 08:26:00
UNCLASSIFIED
American Institute Taiwan, Taipei
Cable title:
TAIWAN HIT BY 3 OFFSHORE EARTHQUAKES NO AMCITS
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UNCLAS AIT TAIPEI 004192
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
DOI PASS USGS
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: CASC TSPL SENV ECON TPHY TW
SUBJECT: TAIWAN HIT BY 3 OFFSHORE EARTHQUAKES NO AMCITS
HURT
UNCLAS AIT TAIPEI 004192
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
DOI PASS USGS
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: CASC TSPL SENV ECON TPHY TW
SUBJECT: TAIWAN HIT BY 3 OFFSHORE EARTHQUAKES NO AMCITS
HURT
1. On December 26 at 8:26 pm a strong earthquake registering
6.7 on the Richter scale struck southern Taiwan. The quake,
with an epicenter 21.8 km southwest of Hengchun was felt as a
Richter 4 quake in the city of Kaohsiung, and a Richter 2
quake in Taipei. A second tremor, magnitude 6.4, with an
epicenter 27.9 km southeast of Kaohsiung, struck at 8:34 pm.
The two tremors collapsed at least three buildings, trapped 8
people under rubble and caused two casualties and 38 wounded.
The earthquake also knocked out cell and land line phone
communication in Kaohsiung until after 2310 hours.
2. After phone lines were restored AIT/K was able to contact
its wardens in Pingtung county, all of whom reported no Amcit
casualties among the registered 4,000 Amcits in southern
Taiwan. AIT/K also contacted the Foreign Affairs Police in
Pingtung county who reported that none of the over 490
resident Amcits was injured. AIT has received very few calls
from relatives of the Amcits. The tremors caused power
outages to 4,000 households and the no. 2 reactor at Maanshan
nuclear power plant was briefly shut down. Power was
restored to half of the households later in the evening. The
latest tremor, a magnitude 5.9 quake happened on Dec. 27 at
10:30 am with an epicenter 40.25 km west of Hengchun, also in
southern Taiwan. While damage from the quakes was limited to
a few collapsed buildings, the quakes served to alert the
authorities to focus on southern Taiwan as an earthquake
prone zone and to plan emergency measures accordingly.
Seismologists attribute the quakes to movement of the
continental plates in the Manila Trench.
WANG
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
DOI PASS USGS
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: CASC TSPL SENV ECON TPHY TW
SUBJECT: TAIWAN HIT BY 3 OFFSHORE EARTHQUAKES NO AMCITS
HURT
1. On December 26 at 8:26 pm a strong earthquake registering
6.7 on the Richter scale struck southern Taiwan. The quake,
with an epicenter 21.8 km southwest of Hengchun was felt as a
Richter 4 quake in the city of Kaohsiung, and a Richter 2
quake in Taipei. A second tremor, magnitude 6.4, with an
epicenter 27.9 km southeast of Kaohsiung, struck at 8:34 pm.
The two tremors collapsed at least three buildings, trapped 8
people under rubble and caused two casualties and 38 wounded.
The earthquake also knocked out cell and land line phone
communication in Kaohsiung until after 2310 hours.
2. After phone lines were restored AIT/K was able to contact
its wardens in Pingtung county, all of whom reported no Amcit
casualties among the registered 4,000 Amcits in southern
Taiwan. AIT/K also contacted the Foreign Affairs Police in
Pingtung county who reported that none of the over 490
resident Amcits was injured. AIT has received very few calls
from relatives of the Amcits. The tremors caused power
outages to 4,000 households and the no. 2 reactor at Maanshan
nuclear power plant was briefly shut down. Power was
restored to half of the households later in the evening. The
latest tremor, a magnitude 5.9 quake happened on Dec. 27 at
10:30 am with an epicenter 40.25 km west of Hengchun, also in
southern Taiwan. While damage from the quakes was limited to
a few collapsed buildings, the quakes served to alert the
authorities to focus on southern Taiwan as an earthquake
prone zone and to plan emergency measures accordingly.
Seismologists attribute the quakes to movement of the
continental plates in the Manila Trench.
WANG