Nation Unites to Rebuild after the Quake At 10: 19 on the morning of October 22, an earthquake registering 6.4 on the Richter scale hit the Chiayi region of southern Taiwan. Leaving more than 200 people injured, seven buildings collapsed and some 90,000 households without electricity in the Chiayi and Tainan areas, it added two new counties to the list of disaster areas.
十月二十二日上午十時十九分，嘉義地區又發生芮氏規模六．四的地震，造成嘉義、台南地區二百餘人輕重傷、七棟建築物倒塌、九萬多用戶斷電……，成為另一個新增的地震災區。