On September 8, Mr. Dang Van Hoa - Chief of Office of the Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention and Search and Rescue of Thua Thien Hue province said that an earthquake had just been recorded in the locality.
Mr. Hoa said that the earthquake on the morning of September 8 was recorded by the Institute of Geophysics in A Luoi district (Thua Thien Hue province) at 6:40 a.m., after storm Yagi had just swept through the northern provinces.
Although the earthquake occurred in the mountainous district of A Luoi, many places in Thua Thien Hue province, dozens of kilometers from the epicenter, still felt it.
The earthquake had a magnitude of 3.3 and an epicenter depth of about 8km. Mr. Hoa said that this earthquake was of low intensity and therefore did not pose a natural disaster risk level.
