The search continues for more than 600 people trapped or missing after the earthquake. The microchip production line, key to the global industry, was almost completely reestablished.

The earthquake has caused the death of ten people, the last of them a 65-year-old hiker buried by rocks in the Taroko National Park. In the next few hours a front is expected that will leave "brief and localized" rains in the mountainous areas of central and eastern Taiwan, which will increase the "risk of landslides, rock falls and avalanches"