Two earthquakes within five minutes occurred in Taiwan

Two earthquakes of magnitude 5.7 and 5.2 were recorded by seismologists with a difference of five minutes in Taiwan. This is reported by the U.S. Geological Survey on February 15. The first underground push of magnitude 5.7, was recorded at 11:00 World Coordinated Time (14:00 Moscow time) in Hualian County on the east coast of the island 16 km south of the city of Hualian with a population of about 350 thousand people. The second underground push came five minutes after the first at 14:05 GMT, in the same place. The focus of the earthquake at the first push was located at a depth of 10 kilometers, at the second at a depth of two kilometers. Data on the possible victims, victims and destructions currently did not arrive. Earlier, the news agency about the 5.1 magnitude earthquake in Taiwan, which occurred in October 2019.