Rock slides near the magnitude-6.3 quake's epi center killed one person driving a car on a mountain road and injured several others.
A 6.3 magnitude earthquake rocked Taiwan on Sunday June 2, killing at least one person and injuring at more than 18 others.
The epi centre was the town of Jenai in central Taiwan, 250 kilometers south of the capital Taipei.
It occurred close to the site of a 7.6 magnitude earthquake that killed over 2,300 people in 1999.
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 epicentre was near Jenai township in Nantou County in central Taiwan, about 250 kilometres (155 miles) south of Taipei, the Central Weather Bureau said.
Rockslides at a scenic mountainous area near the epicentre injured several people.
In Mountain Ali in the southern part of the island, one person was killed by a rockslide while driving a car on a mountain road.
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