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| | Taipei Times - archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) |
 | | The quake occurred at a depth of 11.7km beneath the surface of the sea, seismologists said. |
 | | According to Kuo Kai-wen (郭鎧紋), director of the Seismology Center, as the geological structure underneath and offshore of the eastern coast is uniquely complex, earthquakes in those areas could be the results of both squeezing and rupturing actions when the Pacific Plate and the Eurasian Plate collide, and when another deep-sea fault is broken. |
 | | The earthquake had an intensity of 5 in Taitung and Hualien counties, 4 in Taitung City, 3 in Taichung, Nantou and Yunlin counties as well as in Chiayi, Tainan, Kaohsiung and Pingtung counties, 2 in Yilan County, Miaoli County and Tainan City, and 1 on Penghu Island. |
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