Earthquake measuring 5.7 jolts Taiwan

[Pastor Dale Morgan]

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*Earthquake measuring 5.7 jolts Taiwan*

May 10, 2008, 20:20 GMT

Taipei - An earthquake measuring 5.7 on the scale jolted Taiwan early
Sunday morning, but there was no report of damage or casualties.

The quake struck at 3:42 am (1942 GMT Saturday), with its epicentre 85.1
kilometres off Hualien on Taiwan's east coast, the Seismological
Observation Centre said.

Taiwan sits on the circum-Pacific seismic belt, also known as the
Pacific Ring of Fire. Nearly 90 per cent of the world's earthquakes and
80 per cent of its largest earthquakes occur along this belt.