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An earthquake rocked the entire island <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/world/world-regions/asia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">of Taiwan</a> early Wednesday, killing nine, injuring hundreds, collapsing buildings in a southern city and sparking a brief tsunami warning for southern Japanese islands.Taiwan's fire department said nine people have died in the mountainous, sparsely populated eastern county of Hualien, where the earthquake's epicenter was located. More than 800 people were injured in the incident and authorities lost contact with 50 people aboard four minibuses heading to a hotel in a national park.At least 26 buildings have collapsed, with more than half in the city of Hualien. Nearly 80 people were trapped as rescue work continued, the government said. Fire authorities said about 60 of the people trapped were caught in a tunnel just north of Hualien city.Fire authorities said they were slowly evacuating some of the people trapped in the tunnel.<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/earthquakes-japan-kill-officials-race-save-people-trapped-homes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">EARTHQUAKES IN JAPAN KILL AT LEAST 48 AS OFFICIALS RACE TO SAVE PEOPLE TRAPPED IN HOMES</a>Video and images on social media showed buildings shaken off their foundations. A five-story building in lightly populated Hualien appeared heavily damaged, collapsing its first floor and leaving the rest leaning at a 45-degree angle.In the capital, Taipei, tiles fell from older buildings and within some newer office complexes.The U.S. Geological Survey put the 9.6 mile quake at a 7.4 magnitude, while Taiwan’s earthquake monitoring agency gave it a magnitude of 7.2. The effects of the earthquake were felt as far away as Kinmen, a Taiwanese-controlled island off the coast of China, said Wu Chien-fu, the head of Taiwan's earthquake monitoring bureau.Multiple aftershocks were recorded, and the USGS said one of the subsequent quakes measured 6.5 magnitude and 7.8 miles deep. A tsunami warning was issued for coastal areas of southwestern <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/world" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Japan's Miyakojima and Yaeyama regions</a> and the main island of Okinawa, Japanese public broadcaster NHK World reported. A tsunami wave about 1 ft. high was detected on the coast of Yonaguni island about 15 minutes after the quake struck, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. The tsunami warning was downgraded to an advisory before it was lifted. Train service across the island of 23 million people was suspended. In Taipei, children were seen going to school and the morning commute appeared normal.The U.S. National Tsunami Warning Center initially said it was reviewing <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/disasters/earthquakes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the earthquake</a> to determine whether a tsunami was a threat to the West Coast states of California, Oregon and Washington, as well as Alaska and the Canadian province of British Columbia."Tsunami NOT expected," the agency posted on X minutes later.<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/japan-marks-fukushima-nuclear-disaster-13-years-later-pledges-recover-any-cost" target="_blank" rel="noopener">JAPAN MARKS FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR DISASTER 13 YEARS LATER, PLEDGES TO RECOVER 'AT ANY COST'</a>Hawaii's Emergency Management Agency also said there was no tsunami threat to the state.The quake was believed to be the biggest in Taiwan since a temblor in 1999 caused extensive damage. Taiwan lies along the Pacific "Ring of Fire," a line of seismic faults encircling the Pacific Ocean where most of the world's earthquakes occur.The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.

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title: Powerful earthquake rocks Taiwan, death toll rising, 800 injured
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content: An earthquake rocked the entire island <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/world/world-regions/asia"
 target="_blank" rel="noopener">of Taiwan</a> early Wednesday, killing nine, injuring
 hundreds, collapsing buildings in a southern city and sparking a brief tsunami warning
 for southern Japanese islands.Taiwan's fire department said nine people have
 died in the mountainous, sparsely populated eastern county of Hualien, where the
 earthquake's epicenter was located. More than 800 people were injured in the incident
 and authorities lost contact with 50 people aboard four minibuses heading to a hotel
 in a national park.At least 26 buildings have collapsed, with more than half
 in the city of Hualien. Nearly 80 people were trapped as rescue work continued,
 the government said. Fire authorities said about 60 of the people trapped were caught
 in a tunnel just north of Hualien city.Fire authorities said they were slowly
 evacuating some of the people trapped in the tunnel.<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/earthquakes-japan-kill-officials-race-save-people-trapped-homes"
 target="_blank" rel="noopener">EARTHQUAKES IN JAPAN KILL AT LEAST 48
 AS OFFICIALS RACE TO SAVE PEOPLE TRAPPED IN HOMES</a>Video and
 images on social media showed buildings shaken off their foundations. A five-story
 building in lightly populated Hualien appeared heavily damaged, collapsing its first
 floor and leaving the rest leaning at a 45-degree angle.In the capital, Taipei,
 tiles fell from older buildings and within some newer office complexes.The
 U.S. Geological Survey put the 9.6 mile quake at a 7.4 magnitude, while Taiwan’s
 earthquake monitoring agency gave it a magnitude of 7.2. The effects of the earthquake
 were felt as far away as Kinmen, a Taiwanese-controlled island off the coast of
 China, said Wu Chien-fu, the head of Taiwan's earthquake monitoring bureau.Multiple
 aftershocks were recorded, and the USGS said one of the subsequent quakes measured
 6.5 magnitude and 7.8 miles deep. A tsunami warning was issued for coastal
 areas of southwestern <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/world" target="_blank"
 rel="noopener">Japan's Miyakojima and Yaeyama regions</a> and the main island of
 Okinawa, Japanese public broadcaster NHK World reported. A tsunami wave about 1
 ft. high was detected on the coast of Yonaguni island about 15 minutes after the
 quake struck, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. The tsunami warning was downgraded
 to an advisory before it was lifted. Train service across the island of 23
 million people was suspended. In Taipei, children were seen going to school and
 the morning commute appeared normal.The U.S. National Tsunami Warning Center
 initially said it was reviewing <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/disasters/earthquakes"
 target="_blank" rel="noopener">the earthquake</a> to determine whether a tsunami
 was a threat to the West Coast states of California, Oregon and Washington, as well
 as Alaska and the Canadian province of British Columbia."Tsunami NOT expected,"
 the agency posted on X minutes later.<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/japan-marks-fukushima-nuclear-disaster-13-years-later-pledges-recover-any-cost"
 target="_blank" rel="noopener">JAPAN MARKS FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR DISASTER 13
 YEARS LATER, PLEDGES TO RECOVER 'AT ANY COST'</a>Hawaii's Emergency
 Management Agency also said there was no tsunami threat to the state.The
 quake was believed to be the biggest in Taiwan since a temblor in 1999 caused extensive
 damage. Taiwan lies along the Pacific "Ring of Fire," a line of seismic faults encircling
 the Pacific Ocean where most of the world's earthquakes occur.The Associated
 Press and Reuters contributed to this report. 
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