Residents of Nanxi District in Taiwan's south are counting the cost after a 6.4-magnitude earthquake rocked the border area of Chiayi and Tainan on Tuesday. Despite several homes totally collapsing, only minor injuries have been reported.
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00:00A wall once stood here, separating the kitchen from the hallway.
00:07Now Nanshi resident Lin Hua Min shows me the rubble-filled hole in her home, the damage
00:12caused by an earthquake that shook her from her bed.
00:15Lin is just one of hundreds of residents picking up the pieces after the 6.4 magnitude tremor
00:36struck southern Taiwan minutes after midnight on Tuesday, with aftershocks continuing to
00:41rock the area for hours after.
00:54The epicentre of the quake was close to the Chiayi-Tainan border in southern Taiwan, but
00:59the tremor was felt throughout the country.
01:02It's rural communities like this one in the mountainside district of Nanshi that seem
01:07to have suffered the most damage.
01:10But despite the total collapse of some buildings here, miraculously the people pulled from
01:15these residencies only suffered minor injuries.
01:20And that's mostly thanks to the swift response from emergency workers here.
01:24With
01:43building surveys already underway, and local residents banding together, and reports of
01:49only minor physical injuries, this community and others like it across southern Taiwan
01:54seem to have escaped this quake relatively unscathed.