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To: stockman_scott who wrote (45274)	12/18/2001 12:10:26 AM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 65232

Strong earthquake hits Taiwan, no damage reports Tuesday December 18, 7:32 AM TAIPEI (Reuters) - A strong earthquake registering 6.7 on the open-ended Richter scale rocked northern and eastern parts of Taiwan early on Tuesday, but there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage, the Central Weather Bureau said. The quake struck at 0403 GMT and was centred about 140 km (87 miles) east of the eastern county of Hualien, a bureau spokesman said. A spokesman for Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co, the world's largest contract chip maker, said production equipment at its plants in the northern city of Hsinchu was not affected. Television news network TVBS said the subway in capital Taipei halted operations. The quake caused office buildings in Taipei in the north of the island to shake for a few minutes, witnesses said. Taiwan lies on a seismically active stretch of the Pacific basin, and earthquakes occur frequently. An earthquake which registered 7.6 on the Richter scale, jolted Taiwan on September 21, 1999, killing 2,400 people and wrecking more than 50,000 buildings island-wide.