Sri Lanka’s Disaster Management Centre (DMC) has confirmed that there was no threat to Sri Lanka after Taiwan was jolted by the biggest earthquake in 25 years.
Assistant Director at the DMC, Pradeep Kodippili assured that there was no tsunami threat to Sri Lanka from the 7.5 earthquake reported in Taiwan on Wednesday.
Al Jazeera reports that Taiwan was jolted by its biggest earthquake in a quarter-century, triggering tsunami warnings for the self-ruled island, Japan and the Philippines that passed without significant damage or causalities.
Fire authorities said one person is believed to have been killed by falling rocks in a mountainous area outside Hualien and about 50 others have been injured.
In the capital Taipei, vehicles pulled over on the side of the road and the city’s subway service was briefly suspended.
A series of aftershocks were felt in the capital about 15 minutes later and continued over the next hour.
Taiwanese authorities said aftershocks could continue for the next three to four days due to the earthquake’s intensity.
Wu Chien-fu, the director of Taipei’s Seismology Centre, said the quake, estimated at between 7.2 and 7.7 on the Richter scale, was the strongest to hit the island since a 1999 quake, which killed 2,400 people. (NewsWire)