A search for trapped residents is underway after a 7.2 magnitude earthquake rocked Taiwan on Wednesday (April 3), the strongest tremor to hit the island in at least 25 years. Emergency personnel walked through dark corridors while going door-to-door and calling out to residents in Hualien, footage released by the fire department showed. Photographs also showed rescuers standing outside a building tiled to a precarious angle. Taiwan’s government said four people had died in the mountainous, sparsely populated eastern county of Hualien near where the epicenter was, with more than 50 injured. At least 26 buildings have collapsed, more than half in Hualien, though in one of the worst damaged ones 22 people were rescued with only one missing, the fire department said.

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