Nurses were seen protecting newborn babies during an earthquake that hit Taiwan on Wednesday at a local hospital.

In the footage, which has been shared on social media, at least four nurses can be seen holding down the incubators of the newborns, as you can see in the gallery above.

The video was reportedly shared by a nurse who was part of the team pictured, according to the BBC.

The nurses were reportedly worried that windows might break and injure the babies, the BBC said.

The 7.4-magnitude quake, the strongest to hit Taiwan in 25 years, has killed at least nine people and injured 1,050, according to the latest figures.

Six miners who were trapped in a quarry were rescued on Thursday by Taiwanese authorities, who are still searching for 101 people who are trapped in tunnels or isolated in mountainous areas.

A group of 47 hotel workers and 24 tourists also remain trapped near a cave in Taroko National Park, although drone footage has suggested that most are safe.

"I hope we can use the time we have today to find all the trapped or missing people and help them recover," Premier Chen Chien-jen said after visiting a health centre in Hualien.

The island has been hit by more than 300 aftershocks since the initial quake, and the government has warned of the risk of landslides and falling rocks.

The island's president-elect and current vice president, William Lai Ching-te, visited Hualien on Wednesday and said the government had already allocated 300 million Taiwan dollars (£8.64 million) to help the region.

Taiwan is regularly hit by earthquakes, but strict building regulations and good disaster preparedness appear to have prevented a catastrophe on the island.

The quake triggered tsunami warnings in Taiwan, Japan and the Philippines, which have now been lifted, and was felt in Shanghai and several provinces along China's south-eastern coast, according to Chinese state media.

The Chinese mainland and the main island of Taiwan are separated by about 100 miles (160km).

Taiwan sits on the Pacific "Ring of Fire", the arc of seismic faults around the Pacific Ocean where most of the world's earthquakes occur.

Taiwan's deadliest earthquake in recent years was a 7.7-magnitude quake on 21 September 1999, which killed around 2,400 people, injured about 100,000 and destroyed tens of thousands of buildings.

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