At least 5 dead, hundreds injured after magnitude 6.4 earthquake strikes Taiwan

A powerful earthquake toppled a 17-story
apartment building in southern Taiwan on
Saturday, killing at least five people,
including a 10-day-old girl, and triggering
frantic efforts to rescue dozens of people
feared trapped inside.
The baby and a 40-year-old man are the
only confirmed deaths from the building, a
complex of towers whose floors pancaked
down onto each other when the 6.4
magnitude tremor struck just before 4 a.m.
(2000 GMT), at the start of a Lunar New
Year holiday.
The quake, initially reported as a
magnitude 6.7, was centered 27 miles (43
km) southeast of Tainan, a city of nearly 2
million people.
Photos of a building near collapse as well
as several photos of buildings that came
down surfaced on Twitter shortly after.
The local government has formed an
emergency response team.

An #Earthquake at Tainan, #Taiwan
,3:57(UTC+8), some buildings are
collapsing. pic.twitter.com/
zCaovMFims
— sogetsu (@sogetsuchang) February
5, 2016
PHOTOS: Buildings collapsed after
6.4 magnitude #earthquake strikes
#Tainan , #Taiwan pic.twitter.com/
aaY9ivpdOk