On July 29, the Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention - Search and Rescue and Civil Defense of Kon Tum province said that the unit inspected irrigation works, hydroelectricity, and infrastructure systems in Kon Tum district. Plong after the earthquake.
Kon Plong district is where many large and small hydroelectric projects are planned. The earthquakes were determined to be stimulated earthquakes, possibly caused by hydroelectric dams.
Specifically, in Kon Plong district there are 6 hydroelectric projects but only 3 hydroelectric projects have reservoirs. These are Thuong Kon Tum hydropower, Dak Drinh hydropower and Dak Re hydropower.
Thuong Kon Tum Hydropower Plant has the largest scale with a capacity of 220 MW with 2 units, annual electricity output of 1094 million KWh, storage capacity of 145 million m3.
Thuong Kon Tum hydroelectric project level I, with level 7 earthquake design calculations. Dak Re reservoir dam level I with level 7 earthquake design calculations, Dak Dring reservoir dam level I level with calculations level 8 earthquake design.
There are also other small and medium-sized hydropower plants such as: Dak Lo, Dak Lo 02, Dak Po Ne... Currently, hydroelectric and irrigation projects are still operating normally, with no signs of being affected after the earthquake. Soil has magnitude 5.0.
According to the Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention - Search and Rescue and Civil Defense of Kon Tum province, houses in the central area of Kon Plong district are mainly level IV houses built of bricks and concrete pillars.
The houses of mountainous people near hydroelectric reservoirs are mostly made of wood. The most worrisome are the types of buildings with hard structures, when a large earthquake occurs, it will create the phenomenon of concrete cracking... If the intensity of the earthquake is large, it will collapse.
The Kon Plong district government has asked the People's Committees of communes to send officials to villages in the earthquake epicenter to encourage people to stabilize their minds and take emergency disaster prevention measures.
