Families shelter in tents as rescuers seek people cut off by Taiwan quake
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Hualien, Taiwan: Relief workers set aside stuffed toys, blankets and baby formula for families sheltering Thursday in an elementary school in Hualien,...
Hualien, Taiwan: Relief workers set aside stuffed toys, blankets and baby formula for families sheltering Thursday in an elementary school in Hualien, the epicentre of Taiwan's biggest earthquake in a quarter of a century.
"We have all the necessary stuff -- blankets, toilet and a place to rest," said Indonesian Hendri Sutrisno, who occupied a tent with his wife and two-month-old baby.
The 30-year-old professor at Hualien's Dong Hwa University and his family were among more than 100 people who chose to stay in tents set up at an elementary school after a 7.4 magnitude earthquake hit Taiwan on Wednesday.
The aftershocks of the quake -- the biggest since a 7.6 magnitude disaster in 1999 killed 2,400 people -- came thick and fast, and by Thursday morning Hualien county had experienced hundreds of rolling tremors.