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Country in East Asia
25 May 2002
China Airlines Flight 611 was a regularly scheduled international passenger flight operated by a Boeing 747-200 from Chiang Kai-shek International Airport (now Taoyuan International Airport) in Taiwan to Hong Kong International Airport. On May 25th, 2002, the flight disintegrated midair and crashed into the Taiwan Strait, 26 miles (23 nmi; 42 km) northeast of the Penghu Islands, 20 minutes after takeoff, killing all 225 people on board.
26 December 2006
The 2006 Hengchun earthquakes occurred on December 26 at 20:26 and 20:34 local time off the southwest coast of Taiwan in the Luzon Strait, which connects the South China Sea with the Philippine Sea. The International Seismological Centre measured the shocks at 7.0 and 6.9 on the moment magnitude scale.
6 August 2009 – 10 August 2009
Typhoon Morakot, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Kiko, was the wettest and deadliest typhoon to impact Taiwan in recorded history. The eighth named storm and fourth typhoon of the 2009 Pacific typhoon season, Morakot wrought catastrophic damage in Taiwan, killing 755 people and leaving 26 people missing, and causing roughly NT$110 billion (US$3.3 billion) in damages.
19 December 2009
The 2009 Hualien earthquake occurred on December 19 at 21:02:14 (local time) with a moment magnitude of 6.4 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of VI (Strong). The oblique-slip event took place off the coast of Hualien, Taiwan.
4 March 2010
The 2010 Kaohsiung earthquake, measuring 6.3 Mw, occurred on March 4 at 08:18 a.m. local time.
27 March 2013
The 2013 Nantou earthquake struck central Taiwan with a moment magnitude of 5.9 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of V (Moderate) on March 27 at 10:03 a.m. local time.
2 June 2013
The 2013 Nantou earthquake struck central Taiwan with a moment magnitude of 6.2 on 2 June at 1:43 p.m. local time.
18 March 2014 – 10 April 2014
The Sunflower Student Movement (Chinese: 太陽花學運) is associated with a protest movement driven by a coalition of students and civic groups that came to a head between March 18 and April 10, 2014, in the Legislative Yuan and later, the Executive Yuan of Taiwan. The activists protested the passage of the Cross-Strait Service Trade Agreement (CSSTA) by the then-ruling Kuomintang (KMT) at the legislature without a clause-by-clause review.
27 June 2015
On 27 June 2015, a dust fire occurred at Formosa Fun Coast, a water park in Bali, New Taipei City, Taiwan. Staff of an outdoor "color powder party" sprayed participants with clouds of corn starch, which ignited.
6 February 2016
At 03:57 local time on 6 February 2016, an earthquake with a moment magnitude of 6.4 struck 28 km (17 mi) northeast of Pingtung City in southern Taiwan, in the Meinong District of Kaohsiung. The earthquake struck at a depth of around 23 km (14 mi).
4 February 2018
At 23:50 (UTC+8) on 6 February 2018, an earthquake of magnitude 6.4 on the moment magnitude scale hit Taiwan. The epicenter was on the coastline near Hualien, which was the most severely affected area, with a maximum felt intensity of 7 on the Central Weather Administration seismic intensity scale.
24 November 2018
A multi-question referendum was held in Taiwan on 24 November 2018 alongside local elections. The referendum was the first since the December 2017 reform to the Referendum Act, which reduced the threshold for submitting questions to the ballot; under the new system, signatures from 1.5 percent of the electorate (around 280,000 people) were required to successfully put a question on the ballot, reduced from 5 percent previously.
18 April 2019
The 2019 Hualien earthquake (Chinese: 418花蓮地震) struck Hualien County, Taiwan with a moment magnitude of 6.1 on 18 April at 13:01 local time (05:01 UTC).
1 December 2019
The global COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an outbreak in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. It spread to other parts of Asia and then worldwide in early 2020.
14 October 2021
In the early morning hours of 14 October 2021, at 02:54 NST (UTC+8), a fire broke out in a 13-storey building at Fubei Road in Yancheng District, Kaohsiung, a city in southwestern Taiwan. At least 46 people were killed, and 41 others were injured.
18 September 2022
Two earthquakes affected Taitung and Hualien Counties, Taiwan within hours of each other. The first earthquake struck Taitung on September 17, 2022, occurring with a magnitude of 6.5 Mw, causing minor damage and some injuries.
3 April 2024
On 3 April 2024, at 07:58:11 NST (23:58:11 UTC on 2 April), a Mw 7.4 earthquake struck 15 km (9.3 mi) south of Hualien City, Hualien County, Taiwan., provience, The republic of China At least 19 people were killed and over 1,100 were injured in the earthquake. It was the strongest earthquake in Taiwan since the 1999 Jiji earthquake, with three aftershocks above Mw 6.0.
21 January 2025
On 21 January 2025, at 00:17:26 TST (16:17 UTC on 20 January), a ML 6.4 (Mw 6.0) earthquake struck Dongshan District, Tainan City, Taiwan, near the border with Chiayi County. It was caused by reverse faulting and had a depth of 16 kilometres (9.9 miles).