A strong earthquake jolted Taiwan on Sunday, killing one person and injuring at least 18 others and causing panicked shoppers to rush out of a shaking multi-storey department store, officials said. The tremor that hit Taiwan on Sunday afternoon was felt all over the island, but most severely in the central and southern regions. The magnitude-6.3 quake's epicenter was near Jenai township in Nantou County in central Taiwan, about 250 kilometers (155 miles) south of Taipei, the Central Weather Bureau said. In Mountain Ali in the southern part of the island, a person was killed by a rockslide while driving a car on a mountain road, the Taiwan Fire Agency said in a statement. Rockslides at a scenic mountainous area near the epicenter injured several people, the agency said. In all, 18 people were injured by the earthquake, many by fallen objects. The Central Weather Bureau said the tremor had a relatively shallow depth of 10 kilometers (6 miles). The U.S. Geological Survey put the magnitude at 6.5, according to a report of the Associated Press.
