Two earthquakes struck the site of a hydropower plant located in central Vietnam’s Quang Nam Province two minutes apart on Thursday, the Earthquake Information and Tsunami Warning Center (EITWC) reported.
Earthquake rattles Vietnam’s hydropower plant
EITWC under the Vietnam Global Physics Institute said the first quake, which measured at magnitude 2.7 in the Richter scale with its epicenter located at 5km deep underground, hit the area of the Song Tranh 2 hydropower plant in Bac Tra My District at 13:57:59 (Hanoi time).
It was followed by another quake, which measured magnitude 2.5, about two minutes later at the same area. EITWC is keeping a close watch on the two quakes.
This is the third tremors in five days to have struck the site. Before the two quakes today, the area was hit by a magnitude-2.9 quake, the strongest-ever since early this year, on Sunday.
The area of the Song Tranh 2 hydropower plant has been rocked by hundreds of quakes since 2011 with a 4.7-magnitude that happened in November, 2012 as the strongest to hit the locality so far.
To cope with earthquakes, authorities last August conducted the rehearsal of a response to a magnitude-6.2 earthquake involving more than 2,000 people in Bac Tra My.
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