Nine people have died and more than 900 have been injured after the earthquake struck during Wednesday morning's rush hour.
More than 130 people are trapped after Taiwan's strongest earthquake in 25 years caused buildings to collapse, landslides to crash down from mountainous areas and widespread power outages. Taiwan's earthquake monitoring agency said Wednesday morning's quake was magnitude 7.2, while the US Geological Survey put it at 7.4 and Japan's meteorological agency put it at 7.7.
Schools evacuated their students to sports fields, equipping them with yellow safety helmets. Some also covered themselves with textbooks to guard against falling objects as aftershocks continued. Emily Feng, a correspondent with National Public Radio in Taiwan, told Sky News: 'In Taipei my building has been swaying for the past couple of hours, there's still aftershocks, the last one was just a few minutes ago.
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