TAIWAN RARELY GETS ROCKED BY A DIRECT HIT.(MAIN)

Byline: JOSEPH B. VERRENGIA Associated Press

Taiwan is a seismically jittery place, and researchers said the earthquake that rocked the island early Tuesday is not related to the recent ones in Greece and Turkey.

Taiwan, which sits on the edge of two plates on the Earth's crust, the Eurasian and the Philippine plates, gets shaken by dozens of quakes each year.

Most are centered in the Pacific Ocean east of the island and rarely cause damage. The magnitude 7.6 quake that hit Taiwan early Tuesday was very unusual because it occurred beneath the island's central mountains.

This quake was centered about 120 miles south of the capital, Taipei, …