The building smashed others nearby as it fell. Firefighters pull a survivor from a collapsed building - but hundreds are still trapped under rubble. The quake struck in the early hours as most of Taiwan's 22 million people were sleeping. Firefighters help a girl to safety, frightened but apparently unscathed. A boy is taken for emergency treatment after being rescued from the collapsed hotel in Taipei.
Firefighters use hydraulic lifts to help survivors from a ruined building.