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Beginning Monday night and continuing into the early hours of Tuesday, over 80 earthquakes were reported
The temblor, the strongest in 25 years, hit on Wednesday morning just as people were readying to go to work and school, focused on the largely rural and sparsely populated eastern county of Hualien.
Government authorities said 50 people were missing.
Japan's weather agency said several small tsunami waves reached parts of the southern prefecture of Okinawa.
The Pakistan Met Office said the earthquake tremors were also felt and recorded at the Pakistan-Iran border areas.
Video circulating on Chinese social media showed household appliances crashing to the floor as wild shaking rocked homes.
The disaster left more than 30,000 people homeless and cut power to tens of thousands of residences and businesses.
Survival rates drop off 72 hours after the quake, according to emergency responders. Severed roads and the remote location of the worst-hit areas have complicated rescue efforts.
Around 200 tremors have been detected since the quake first hit on Monday, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency, which warned that more strong shocks could hit in the coming days.
The actor, who was in Japan to celebrate Christmas and New Year's Eve with his family, decided to leave the country immediately in the wake of about 155 earthquakes that resulted in tragic fatalities.