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| Rescuers search for survivors at a collapsed building in Tainan City, southeast China's Taiwan, Feb. 8, 2016. Saturday's 6.7-magnitude earthquake, which struck just two days ahead of the traditional Chinese New Year near Tainan, has killed at least 38 people, all but two of them in the collapse of the 16-story residential complex. More than 100 people are believed to still be under the debris, stoking fears that the eventual toll could top 100 as the likelihood of survivors ticks away. (Xinhua) |
TAIPEI, Feb. 11 -- The death toll from the earthquake that struck southern Taiwan on Saturday had climbed to 55 as of 7:30 a.m. on Thursday, with more than 80 people missing.
The collapse of the Wei Guan building, the most seriously damaged, accounted for 53 of the deaths, according to an official update on the casualties.
The quake, which the China Earthquake Administration said had a magnitude of 6.7, hit Kaohsiung city at 3:57 a.m. Beijing Time on Saturday, just two days ahead of the Lunar New Year. Local monitoring authorities put the scale of the quake at 6.4.
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