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Taipei, Sept. 20 (CNA) The aftershocks of a magnitude 6.8 earthquake that hit southeastern Taiwan on Sunday are expected to decrease in magnitude and frequency over the next four weeks, with a slim chance of a magnitude 5 quake occurring by Wednesday, a seismologist said Tuesday.
An earthquake of at least magnitude 6.8 struck Taiwan on Sunday, derailing trains and causing buildings to collapse.
By Chen Hsin-yu and Liu Tzu-hsuan / Staff reporter, with staff writer and CNAThere are three or four high-risk faults in the populous Chianan Plain （嘉南平原） beneath Chiayi County and Tainan, the Central Weather Bureau （CWB） said yesterday, declining to provide details to avoid causing panic.
Taipei, Sept. 19 (CNA) As of 11 a.m. Monday, more than 70 aftershocks were recorded following a magnitude 6.8 earthquake that struck Taiwan's southeastern Taitung County the previous day, including a magnitude 5.9 shock, and more are expected in coming days, according to the Central Weather Bureau's (CWB) Seismological Center.
TAIPEI, Taiwan: A strong earthquake shook much of Taiwan on Sunday, toppling a three-story building and temporarily trapping four people inside, stranding about 400 tourists on a mountainside, and knocking part of a passenger train off its tracks. One person died and nine people had minor injuries, Taiwan’s Emergency Operations Center said. The magnitude 6.8 quake was the