Many people lost everything and were lucky to escape with their lives. More than 50 people were injured when this 12-storey hotel collapsed in a Taipei suburb. 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.