TAIPEI: Buildings shook violently in Taiwan's capital Taipei Thursday as a 5.6-magnitude quake hit off the island's northeast coast.

The shallow quake struck at a depth of 10 kilometers (six miles), the US Geological Survey said, just east of the coastal city of Yilan, 60 kilometers from Taipei. There were no immediate reports of damage.

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