Faced with the power of the tremors, the piles which support this building cannot resist. It was 2:27 a.m. Tuesday morning when a 6.1 magnitude earthquake struck the island of Taiwan, just three weeks after a powerful earthquake. The aftershocks further damaged these buildings in the town of Hualien in the east of the island. This Taiwanese woman that we were able to contact lives in the neighborhood next to the building. She says she hasn’t slept enough, with the children waking up and the aftershocks that haven’t stopped since the morning. Tremors are still perceptible in the northeast of the island. But according to local authorities, it is south of the epicenter that the earth could shake in the coming days. “As soon as seismic energy decreases in the north, the frequency of earthquakes will increase in the south,” warns Wu Chien-Fu, director of the Taiwan Seismology Center. No casualties to report after the aftershocks last Monday. Three weeks ago, the first earthquake caused the death of 17 people. TF1 | Report N. Getten, E. Zonghero
