Local business woman Lili Yong and her two daughters were in Taipei on a holiday when the 7.4-magnitude quake struck the Hualien County in Taiwan.
“Oh my gosh, it is something I don’t wish upon anyone,” said Yong, who is with her daughters aged 11 and 13, in an online interview while still in Taipei.
“We were asleep in our hotel room on the sixth floor when suddenly our whole room began shaking violently,” she said.
“All the lights in the room were shaking, our beds were shaking,” she added.
“My children were so scared, we were all scared and didn’t know what to do. There wasn’t any announcements from the hotel. Thankfully it went away after a couple of minutes, but there were some mild aftershocks,” she said.
“We are now feeling better.”
The earthquake is the strongest the island has experienced in the last 25 years, killing at least nine people and injuring over 1,000. – James Kon
