Magnitude 6.1 earthquake rattles Taiwan’s Penghu County

A magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck western Taiwan at 7:57 a.m. Monday, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said, and was felt hundreds of kilometers away in Hong Kong.

The earthquake’s epicenter was located at sea about 101.9 kilometers west of Penghu County Hall, at a depth of 20.5 km, the bureau’s Seismology Center said.

The earthquake’s highest intensity, which gauges the actual effect of a temblor, was highest in Penghu, Kinmen, Tainan, Yunlin, Chiayi and Changhua, where it measured 3 on Taiwan’s 7-tiered intensity scale.

The earthquake also measured an intensity of 2 in Nantou, Kaohsiung and Taichung, bureau data showed.