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By Tim Culpan & Adela Lin -
Mar 26, 2013 8:19 PM PT
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing
Co. evacuated factories after a magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck
central Taiwan’s Nantou county at 10:03 a.m. Buildings shook in
Taipei, about 153 kilometers from the epicenter.
The evacuations were triggered by emergency response
mechanisms, company spokesman Michael Kramer told Bloomberg by
phone today. A factory in the city of Taichung and another in
Hsinchu were evacuated following the tremor, and both operate 8-
inch wafer production equipment, he said.
The earthquake’s epicenter was 38.8 kilometers east of
Nantou county’s government at a depth of 15.4 kilometers,
Taiwan’s Central Weather Bureau
reported. It was followed by
three aftershocks measuring from 3.7 to 3.9 in magnitude. Three
people were injured and one fire was reported in central Taiwan,
Lin Kuan-cheng, a spokesman for the National Fire Agency said by
phone today. Landslides blocked a highway in Nantou, the
transportation department said.
The
Taiwan dollar was unchanged at NT$29.850 as of 10:51
a.m. in Taipei trading. Taiwan’s Taiex rose 0.3 percent to
7,876.94 as of 10:54 a.m. local time.
The
U.S. Geological Survey recorded the earthquake’s
magnitude as 6.0 and occurring at a depth of 20 kilometers.
To contact the reporters on this story:
Tim Culpan in Taipei at
tculpan1@bloomberg.net;
Adela Lin in Taipei at
alin95@bloomberg.net
To contact the editor responsible for this story:
Debra Mao at
dmao5@bloomberg.net
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