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Updated Monday, February 27, 2012 0:12 am TWN, The China Post news staff

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Strongest quake since 2010 rattles southern Taiwan

The strongest earthquake that hit Taiwan in almost two years rocked the southern parts of the island yesterday morning. No casualties related to the powerful 6.1 magnitude quake were reported except that about 60,000 railway passengers aboard 110 trains were affected by delays.

The quake, measuring 6.1 on the open-ended Richter scale rocked southern Taiwan at 10:35 a.m., was also rated as the biggest one affecting the island in two years.

The epicenter of the quake was located in Wutai Township in southern Pingtung County, about 30 kilometers north of the southernmost county's government. The quake occurred at a depth of 20 km below the sea level, according to the Seismology Center of the Central Weather Bureau (CWB).

The center said this was the largest quake on Taiwan proper since a magnitude 6.42 earthquake hit southern Taiwan's Kaohsiung on March 4, 2010. added.

Nationwide monitoring indicated that the quake had an intensity of 5.0 in Sandimen of Pingtung County, Chulu of neighboring Taitung County, and Xinhua of Tainan City.

It was measured 4.0 in Kaohsiung City and Taitung City in the south as well as in Chiayi County and Yunlin County in southwestern Taiwan. The tremor had a lower intensity of 1.0 in the capital city of Taipei in the north.

No immediate casualties have been reported in the areas affected by the earthquake. But numerous people were shocked and many of them ran out of doors and stayed outside.

Two stronger aftershocks measuring over 4.0 have since occurred in Taitung, according to the weather bureau.

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February 27, 2012 therines@

We were in Xingshi Tainan in our friend's third floor apartment, growing in a part of a country that doesn't experience earthquake at all. This one really got into my nerves that I was reciting The Lord's Shepherds as we rocked to and fro.