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At a Glance A 6.4 magnitude quake struck near Hualien, Taiwan, late Tuesday night local time.

At least 12 people have died and more than 270 have been injured.

Crews continue to search for five missing people in the wake of the tremor.

Days after a large earthquake rattled buildings in Taiwan, crews recovered two more bodies Friday, bringing the death toll to 12.

Firefighters continued to look through buildings that leaned after partially collapsing late Tuesday night amid the violent shaking. The worst damage was seen in Hualien County, where multiple midsized buildings were heavily damaged, according to the Associated Press.

Two of the victims were employees at the Marshal Hotel, which partially collapsed during the temblor, the AP reported via Taiwan's Central News Agency. The hotel's first through third floors were flattened , the Taiwan News reported. A family of five remains missing in the rubble of the hotel.

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The U.S. Geological Survey said the tremor struck at 11:50 p.m. local time (10:50 a.m. U.S. EST) at a depth of about 6 miles. The epicenter was located about 13 miles north-northeast of Hualien, Taiwan.

There were dozens of aftershocks in the hours that followed the main quake.

"At first it wasn't that big ... we get this sort of thing all the time and it's really nothing. But then it got really terrifying," Chen Minghui, a maintenance worker who had to be rescued from the basement of the hotel, told the CNA. "It was really scary."

Fire department crews told the Epoch Times that at least seven buildings collapsed . More than 270 injuries were reported following the tremor, the AP added.

Officials shut down the Hualien Bridge and the Su-Hua Highway was temporarily closed due to a surface uplift on the roadway, Xinhua News Agency reported.

Multiple landslides that occurred along the Su-Hua Highway also contributed to its closure, according to Taiwan News.

Shelters have been opened, including a recently built baseball stadium, and residents were given hot food and beds, the AP also said. Evacuees said they were having trouble getting over the fear of additional damaging earthquakes.

"That fear is still there," Chen Chu-rong, 52, told the AP. "I'm still afraid because things kept on falling down."

Taiwan is no stranger to large earthquakes. In 1999, more than 2,300 people died when a magnitude 7.6 tremor struck the island, and in 2016, a 6.4 earthquake destroyed an apartment complex in southern Taiwan, killing 115, the AP added.