The deadly earthquake that battered Taiwan Wednesday morning was the most powerful temblor to rock the island in decades, officials said. Taiwan sits along the Pacific "Ring of Fire," the string of ...

Taiwan’s strongest earthquake in a quarter century rocked the island during the morning rush hour Wednesday, damaging ...

Officials said the quake was the strongest to hit the island since 1999, when a 7.6-magnitude tremor struck central Taiwan, killing more than 2,400 people. After that earthquake, one of the worst in ...

Taiwan is regularly jolted by quakes and its population is among the best prepared for them. But authorities expected a relatively mild earthquake and did not send out alerts. Officials said the quake ...