Son La has just appeared

News from the Earthquake Alert and Tsunami Warning Center (Institute of Geophysics, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology) said that at 9: 14 minutes on September 19, in Song Ma district, Son La province an earthquake occurred.

As noted by experts, this earthquake has a magnitude of 2.9 Richter scale, occurring at the position of coordinates 21,28 degrees North latitude, 103.57 degrees East longitude, the depth of drainage is about 15km.

Talking to reporters, Mr. Le Thanh Hai (Earthquake Reporting Center and Tsunami Warning) said that this is a weak earthquake, unable to cause damage to people and construction works. build.

Currently, the Geophysical Institute is still monitoring this earthquake.

Earlier, September 5-6, at the International Conference 'Dangerous earthquakes, tsunamis and early warning systems in the Asia-Pacific region,' experts also said that Vietnam had a relationship. The risk of earthquakes is quite high.

Dr. Le Huy Minh, Deputy Director of the Institute of Geophysics once told reporters, Vietnam once recorded two huge earthquakes, the Dien Bien earthquake (1935) with a magnitude of 6.75 Richter occurs on the Ma River breaking zone. The second battle was the Tuan Giao earthquake (1983), with intensity of 6.8 Richter scale, occurring in the Son La fault zone.

According to Mr. Minh, earthquakes in Vietnam in recent years appear more and more.