Sea levels start to drop off the coast Okinawa ahead of a coming tsunami

Terrible earthquake in Taiwan. I still haven’t seen any injury reports as yet.

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Okinawa islands threatened by tsunami after the huge earthquake:

• Earthquake near Taiwan Magnitude 7.5, felt in Taipei
• Reports of buildings collapsed in Taiwan after the 7.5 magnitude earthquake
• Philippines warns of tsunami and orders the evacuation of coastal areas after Taiwan quake

• TSMC evacuated factory areas after earthquake hit Taiwan

• Taiwan earthquake revised higher to magnitude 7.7, from 7.5

Also:

Taiwan chipmaker UMC:

• Staff at the Hsinchu
  and southern Taiwan science parks were evacuated according to our
  operating standards
• All staff are safe
  and factories are operating normally, some machines were shut down
  but we are working to restart them

Taiwan’s largest chip packaging and test firm ASE says operations are normal

This article was written by Eamonn Sheridan at www.forexlive.com.