A huge earthquake hit southern Taiwan on Thursday measuring 6.4 in the Richter Scale 5 days after the huge earthquake that hit Chile.

The earthquake that hit in the county of Kaohsiung , which was also the epicentre on Thursday morning, caused buildings to shake.

Power lines were brought down and the island’s high-speed rail service was immediately suspended with fire breaking out in certain areas of the city of Kaohsiung.

Some temporary housing shelters, erected in the wake of a devastating typhoon last summer, collapsed as a result of the quake and one person was reported to have been injured.

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Meanwhile powerful aftershocks have caused panic in Chile after the 8.8 magnitude that hit the country 5 days ago and killed over 800 people.

Powerful aftershocks measuring 5.9 in the Richter scale in Chile have caused further panic. The aftershocks terrified residents in the coastal town of Concepcion, the closes land to the epicentre of the tremors.

people were seen running to high ground when the massive aftershock hit.