https://sg.news.yahoo.com/another-earthquake-felt-fort-st-010151145.html
Wed, 11 June 2025 at 7:28 pm SGT·1-min read
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan was struck by an earthquake about 71 kilometers (44.1 miles) south of Hualien City, monitoring agencies said.
The quake hit seconds after cell phone alarms went off at 7:01 p.m. Wednesday.
The United States Geological Survey reported the quake had a magnitude of 5.9 and was detected at a depth of 31.1 kilometers (19.3 miles). Taiwan’s Central Weather Administration gave the magnitude as 6.4. Such variations are common given differences in sensitivity and detector locations.
Buildings in Taipei shook for about a minute. There were no immediate reports of major damage.
Hualien, located 154 kilometers (95.6 miles) south of the capital Taipei, is relatively thinly populated compared to the highly congested western side of the island of 23 million people, which is frequently struck by quakes.
Taiwan lies along the Pacific “Ring of Fire,” a line of seismic faults encircling the Pacific Ocean from Chile to New Zealand where most of the world’s earthquakes occur.
Taiwan’s worst modern quake, a magnitude 7.7 temblor that killed 2,415 people and damaged buildings in 1999, led to tightened building codes, better response times and coordination and widespread public education campaigns on earthquake safety. Schools and workplaces hold earthquake drills, while cellphones buzz whenever a strong earthquake is detected.
Earthquake damage since then has been significantly reduced.
A previous version of this story incorrectly stated the earthquake occurred Tuesday evening.
Strong earthquake strikes Taiwan near east coast city of Hualien, agencies say
Associated PressWed, 11 June 2025 at 7:28 pm SGT·1-min read
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan was struck by an earthquake about 71 kilometers (44.1 miles) south of Hualien City, monitoring agencies said.
The quake hit seconds after cell phone alarms went off at 7:01 p.m. Wednesday.
The United States Geological Survey reported the quake had a magnitude of 5.9 and was detected at a depth of 31.1 kilometers (19.3 miles). Taiwan’s Central Weather Administration gave the magnitude as 6.4. Such variations are common given differences in sensitivity and detector locations.
Buildings in Taipei shook for about a minute. There were no immediate reports of major damage.
Hualien, located 154 kilometers (95.6 miles) south of the capital Taipei, is relatively thinly populated compared to the highly congested western side of the island of 23 million people, which is frequently struck by quakes.
Taiwan lies along the Pacific “Ring of Fire,” a line of seismic faults encircling the Pacific Ocean from Chile to New Zealand where most of the world’s earthquakes occur.
Taiwan’s worst modern quake, a magnitude 7.7 temblor that killed 2,415 people and damaged buildings in 1999, led to tightened building codes, better response times and coordination and widespread public education campaigns on earthquake safety. Schools and workplaces hold earthquake drills, while cellphones buzz whenever a strong earthquake is detected.
Earthquake damage since then has been significantly reduced.
A previous version of this story incorrectly stated the earthquake occurred Tuesday evening.
Another earthquake felt in the Fort St. John region
CBC
Thu, 12 June 2025 at 9:01 am SGT·1-min read
An earthquake was recorded near Fort St. John, B.C., on Wednesday, June 11, 2025. (Andrew Kurjata/CBC - image credit)
Earthquakes Canada reported a 4.4 magnitude quake in the Fort St. John area on Wednesday morning.
It occurred about 74 kilometres northwest of the city just before 11:30 a.m. PT at a depth of five kilometres and was "lightly felt," according to the earthquake database. No damage was reported.
It's the latest in a series of minor earthquakes that have struck northeastern B.C. this year, after four quakes of magnitude 3.1 or higher were detected in a single week in February.
The quakes are "suspected industry-related" events, according to Natural Resources Canada — in other words, related to hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, in the area.
In this case, the B.C. Energy Regulator (BCER) has linked the quake to fracking in the Wonowon area.
Fracking is a process that blasts water, sand, and chemicals at high pressure more than two kilometres underground to release natural gas trapped in rock formations.
"Earthquakes can be induced by ... mining, by oil and gas extraction," Natural Resources Canada earthquake seismologist John Cassidy said in a February interview.
Earlier this year, the BCER announced it had begun tracking all seismic events of magnitude 1.5 or higher to further understand the links between industrial activity and earthquakes.
So far, it shows a seismic event nearly every day this year, though the vast majority were not felt.
