An 8-year-old girl is rescued by firefighters from a high-rise collapsed apartment building in Tainan, southern Taiwan, on Feb 8, 2016, two days after the 6.7-magnitude quake hit.[Photo/IC]

Dozens of family members of the missing gathered in a temporary media center set up in a furniture store near the toppled building, staring at the rubble with anxiety.

Taiwan is frequently rattled by earthquakes. Most cause little or no damage, although a 7.3-magnitude quake in 1999, the strongest to hit Taiwan for about 100 years, left more than 2,000 people dead.