The Central Weather Administration is boosting its weather forecasting capabilities by integrating AI technology with the deployment of a 6th generation high-speed computing computer.
The Central Weather Administration's (CWA) Seismological Center says a series of strong earthquakes that rocked much of the island from Monday evening into Tuesday morning have been classified as aftershocks triggered by the 3 April earthquake.
More than 27,000 households islandwide were without power as of Friday morning, according to Taiwan Power Company (Taipower).
Typhoon Koinu has been churning across Taitung and Pingtung over the past several hours and its eye is now some 10 kilometres southeast of Taiwan's southern tip E-luan-bi.