taiwan earthquake
Taiwan earthquake damaged telecommunication cables linking the Chinese mainland, disconnecting users with overseas Websites, including MSN, China Netcom and China Telecom said this morning.
Two people were killed and 42 injured when three buildings collapsed in earthquakes that shook southern Taiwan yesterday, which also damaged at least six undersea telecommunication cables, affecting users in Taiwan and South Korea, and was felt on the Chinese mainland and Hong Kong.
The biggest quake, measured by Taiwan's Central Weather Bureau at magnitude 6.7 and at magnitude 7.1 by the US Geological Survey, struck off the island's southern coast at 8:26pm yesterday -- the second anniversary of a massive earthquake and tsunami that left more than 230,000 people in Asia either dead or missing.
Further quakes through the evening in Taiwan were measured at up to magnitude 7.0 by the US agency
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