Residents Mostly Unscathed After 6.4-Magnitude Quake in Southern Taiwan

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Residents of Nanxi District in Taiwan's south are counting the cost after a 6.4-magnitude earthquake rocked the border area of Chiayi and Tainan on Tuesday. Despite several homes totally collapsing, only minor injuries have been reported.

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00:00A wall once stood here, separating the kitchen from the hallway.

00:07Now Nanshi resident Lin Hua Min shows me the rubble-filled hole in her home, the damage

00:12caused by an earthquake that shook her from her bed.

00:15Lin is just one of hundreds of residents picking up the pieces after the 6.4 magnitude tremor

00:36struck southern Taiwan minutes after midnight on Tuesday, with aftershocks continuing to

00:41rock the area for hours after.

00:54The epicentre of the quake was close to the Chiayi-Tainan border in southern Taiwan, but

00:59the tremor was felt throughout the country.

01:02It's rural communities like this one in the mountainside district of Nanshi that seem

01:07to have suffered the most damage.

01:10But despite the total collapse of some buildings here, miraculously the people pulled from

01:15these residencies only suffered minor injuries.

01:20And that's mostly thanks to the swift response from emergency workers here.

01:24With

01:43building surveys already underway, and local residents banding together, and reports of

01:49only minor physical injuries, this community and others like it across southern Taiwan

01:54seem to have escaped this quake relatively unscathed.

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