A few days ago, an earthquake with a magnitude of 5.8 occurred in the sea area of Yilan, Taiwan Province. Did it affect the surrounding cities?

An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.8 occurred in the sea area of Yilan, Taiwan Province at 21: 19 on December 1th. During the earthquake, the earthquake was felt clearly in the northeast of Taiwan Province, and also in Fuzhou, Quanzhou, Putian and Xiamen, Fujian, near the Taiwan Province Strait area.

The focal depth of this city earthquake reached 8km, and the National Earthquake Prediction Center issued an earthquake warning at the first time, indicating that the whole island of Taiwan Province was within the affected range of this earthquake, and that this earthquake may be a foreshock, and then an earthquake with a magnitude of 6. may occur, because the insufficient energy release of this earthquake may lead to a larger earthquake in the next few days. The National Earthquake Prediction Center will continue to closely monitor and issue an early warning at any time.

As the occurrence of an earthquake cannot be accurately predicted, it is necessary to master the correct way to avoid danger. When the earthquake occurs in an indoor environment, you should go outdoors and find an open space to squat or prone to avoid danger at the first time. If you are trapped indoors, you should use the indoor triangular space to avoid danger at the first time, and try to avoid positions with weak wall structures, such as balconies, skylights, windows, corridors and stairs, and look for indoor columns and load-bearing walls to avoid danger.

This earthquake is quite harmful because it happened at night. Fortunately, the epicenter was located at sea, so no serious casualties occurred. However, this must arouse people's concern, because there will be aftershocks in every earthquake, and it is not excluded that there will be aftershocks with higher magnitude. Therefore, if we take it lightly, it may cause great losses. People should seriously understand the earthquake self-help methods and risk-avoidance measures, do not panic when there is danger, and take safe risk-avoidance actions at the first time.