Taiwan faced a tremor 71 kilometers south of Hualien City, as indicated by monitoring agencies. Cell phone alarms had just sounded at 7:01 p. m. on Wednesday when the quake occurred seconds later, the ...

As seismic waves travel through Earth, they gradually lose energy, a process called attenuation. That energy loss doesn't happen uniformly—some features in the crust sap far more energy from seismic ...

Following the initial quake, five smaller tremors were detected within a span of 20 minutes. A 5.9-magnitude earthquake occurred in the waters near Hualien County, Taiwan, at 6:53 p.m. on Monday, as ...