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A 5.6-magnitude earthquake occurred in Taiwan at around 4:20 pm today, with the epicenter located 39.4 kilometers northeast of Yilan County Government.
When the earthquake hit Taiwan at about 4:20 pm today (1st), 26,000 people flooded into the live chat room of the YouTube channel "Taiwan Earthquake Monitor" to "report safety."
According to preliminary observation data from the Central Meteorological Administration, a 5.6-magnitude earthquake occurred in Taiwan at about 4:20 pm today (1). The epicenter was 39.4 kilometers east of the Yilan County government in the sea. The focal depth was 119.5 kilometers. The maximum earthquake intensity measured in various places was 3. The well-known YouTube channel "Taiwan Earthquake Monitor" live broadcast chat room, at the moment of the earthquake, netizens from all over Taiwan flooded in to "report safety", with the number of people reaching the highest number of 26,000.
Based on online comments from netizens reporting the degree of shaking in their areas, people in Yilan, Keelung, New Taipei, Taipei, Taoyuan, Hsinchu and other counties and cities not only felt left and right shaking for more than 10 seconds, but even felt "up and down shaking for several seconds"; people living in central and southern Yunlin, Taichung, Nantou, Tainan, etc. also said they felt slight shaking. Many netizens also questioned why no one received a national alert for this felt earthquake.
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