Minor Damage Reported By Taiwan's Kaohsiung Earthquake

Disaster Report: Very Shallow Strong Dangerous Earthquake Jolts  Taiwan with epicenter located 34 km WSW of Taitung. Heavy Damage To Life And Property Is Certain. (Considering Preliminary Data).

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UPDATE
Train delayed 1-2 hours.  

UPDATE
USGS has updated data as M 5.9 @ 22.4 km depth. Max. felt intensity V in Taitung City, which means moderate. Looking this new updated intensity table, earlier assumption fails. However, light to minor damage is confirmed around epicenter area.
The populated area Kao-hsiung and Tainan City are among the one to experience light shaking. Aside is Taiwan earthquake video, showing minor damages
 
UPDATE 04:17 UTC
High-speed rail service temporarily suspended out of the southern city of Kaohsiung, north of Pingtung 

UPDATE
Damage reports starts to come. Damage reported in the Pingtung area. Detail yet to come. 

UPDATE
Felt Reports Received by Disaster Report through "Felt reports Form"
Joe Bob from Taiwan: All my CD's broke. Light crashed and fell.
Karin Gustafsson from Kaohsiung: Strong shaking, First experience...
Helga Olofsson from Kaohsiung: MMI VI Strong shaking
Kaohsiung: lasted for about 15-20 seconds..it was strong, I was way to my office...I called to my home, seems network is currently busy
Kaohsiung: boom...very strong..though we experience here but this was strongest

UPDATE 04:00 UTC
NO DAMAGE REPORT obtained at the time of updating BUT heavy damage is confirmed in Taitung, Kaohsiung, Pingtung and Chia-Nan region 


UPDATE 03:57 UTC

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Taiwan is frequently hit by earthquakes as the island lies on the Pacific Ring of Fire But this magnitude is strongest in last 8+ years 

UPDATE 03:56 UTC
Two 4.0 magnitude aftershock recorded. The Hong Kong Observatory measured the quake at magnitude 6.0. The US Geological Survey estimated the quake at 5.9  

UPDATE 03:54 UTC
Taiwan medias are reporting M 6.1 scale earthquake in Wutai, Pingtung 


UPDATE 03:51 UTC
Regarding felt intensity, this is what Taiwan seismological center mentions

台東縣地區最大震度 5級　　　　屏東縣地區最大震度 5級　　　　台南市地區最大震度 5級
　　　初　鹿 5　　　　　　　　　　　三地門 5　　　　　　　　　　　新　化 5　　　　　　　　
　　　太麻里 5　　　　　　　　　　　九　如 4　　　　　　　　　　　台南市 5　　　　　　　　
　　　台東市 4　　　　　　　　　　　枋　寮 4　　　　　　　　　　　楠　西 4　　　　　　　　
　　　卑　南 3　　　　　　　　　　　屏東市 4　　　　　　　　　　　永　康 4　　　　　　　　
　　　安　朔 3　　　　　　　　　　　小琉球 3　　　　　　　　　　　善　化 4　　　　　　　　
　　　大　武 3　　　　　　　　　　　恆　春 3　　　　　　　　　　　佳　里 4　　　　　　　　
　　　利　稻 3　　　　　　　　　　　鵝鑾鼻 3　　　　　　　　　　　七　股 4　　　　　　　　
　　　東　河 3　　　　　　　　　　　墾　丁 2　　　　　　　　　　　東　山 3　　　　　　　　
　　　池　上 3　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
　　　成　功 3　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
　　　長　濱 3　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
　　　蘭　嶼 3　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
　　　綠　島 2

UPDATE 03:49 UTC
Taiwan seismological center mentions maximum seismic intensity of 5

UPDATE 03:47 UTC
Strong to moderate shaking is felt over all region of Island 

UPDATE 03:45 UTC
Taiwan seismological center website is currently overloaded
 
UPDATE
light shaking is reported to be felt in 300+ km radius in different parts of China

UPDATE
The last strong earthquake in this region was in 2004-05-01 of M 5.2 with zero fatalities reported.
The deadly earthquake in 1999-09-20 in Taiwan of M 7.6 took 2489 lives!

UPDATE
MMI V: Yue-ching, Heng-ch'un and Tainan City
MMI IV: Yun-lin, Pu-li, Hualian and T'ai-chung-shih

UPDATE
People of Taitung City and Kao-hsiung of Taiwan will have experienced strong shaking of MMI VI. Heavy damage is expected in this area

M 5.9 very shallow strong dangerous earthquake in Taiwan (@ 5 km depth) with epicenter located 34 km WSW of Taitung. About 214,000 people will have felt very strong shaking of MMI VII. Heavy Damage to life and property is fixed
02:34 UTC (local time Sunday, February 26, 2012 at 10:34 AM @ epicenter )
Epicenter Location
34 km (21 miles) WSW of Taitung, Taiwan
54 km (33 miles) E of Kaohsiung, Taiwan
98 km (60 miles) SSE of Chiayi, Taiwan
891 km (553 miles) N of MANILA, Philippines
Epicenter Overview: Taitung County is a county in eastern Taiwan. While its name means "Eastern Taiwan", it is also known as "Houshan" by many of the locals, meaning behind the mountains or the back mountains. Taitung is officially administered as a county of Taiwan, Republic of China.
Kaohsiung is a city located in southwestern Taiwan, facing the Taiwan Strait on the west. Kaohsiung, officially named Kaohsiung City, is divided into thirty-eight districts.
Kaohsiung is the second largest city in Taiwan, with a population around 2.9 million