TAINAN, Feb. 6, 2016 (Xinhua) -- Rescuers try to look for victims at the site where a building collapsed during an earthquake in Tainan City, southeast China's Taiwan, Feb. 6, 2016. (Xinhua/Zhang Guojun)

TAIPEI, Feb. 7 (Xinhua) -- The death toll of a powerful earthquake that struck southern Taiwan early Saturday reached 17 by 5:15 a.m. Sunday, according to the local fire agency.

Previous reports said 462 people were injured in the quake. Over 350 people have been rescued in Tainan city. The rescue is still underway.

The 6.7-magnitude earthquake hit Kaohsiung city at a depth of 15 kilometers at 3:57 a.m. Beijing Time on Saturday, according to the China Earthquake Networks Center. Local monitoring authorities put the scale of the quake at 6.4 magnitude.

In the historic city of Tainan, which bore the brunt of the quake, eight buildings collapsed and another five were partially damaged.