Taiwan Earthquake Kills at Least 14 as Chipmaking Hub Rocked
- More than 150 reported missing after 6.4-magnitude temblor
- Apple supplier TSMC sees little change to quarterly shipments
Rescue workers search for survivors at the site of a collapsed building on Feb. 6. in Tainan.
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A strong earthquake rocked a region of Taiwan that’s a hub for chipmaking suppliers to the likes of Apple Inc. and Qualcomm Inc., killing at least 14 people and forcing rescuers to pull hundreds from the rubble of collapsed buildings.
More than 150 people remained missing early Sunday, the official Central News Agency reported. While manufacturers’ preliminary assessments showed factory damage in the area was minimal, the temblor halted water service to about 400,000 households, cut power in the cities of Tainan and Kaohsiung, and knocked the nation’s bullet-train system offline.