Lu Pei-ling, deputy director of the Taiwan Seismological Center, briefs the press about the Nantou quake, in Taipei, southeast China's Taiwan, June 2, 2013. A 6.7-magnitude quake jolted Nantou County in the central Taiwan Island Sunday afternoon, with no casualties reported. (Xinhua/Wu Ching-teng)

BEIJING -- One person was killed and 18 injured, including one critically, after an earthquake struck Taiwan's Nantou County Sunday afternoon, according to the firefighting authorities of the island.

The earthquake was 6.7 magnitude according to the China Earthquake Networks Center while Taiwan's earthquake authorities measured it at 6.3.