Nguyen Tuyet Nhung, 40, from Thanh Tri District, said that she had felt her house shake quite strongly when sitting on the second floor at around 12:15 pm today, July 27, making her feel dizzy.
Hanoi experiences the tremore this morning, July 27
Nguyen Quang Phong, who was working on the third floor of his office at the time, had the same feeling.
“I felt as if I was suffering from high blood pressure,” said a woman from Thanh Xuan District.
According to Dr, Nguyen Xuan Anh, head of the Institute of Geophysics, the tremor in Hanoi was caused by a 5.3 magnitude earthquake in Son La Province. No losses were reported.
On July 2 and 7, two earthquakes also occurred in Muong Te District in the northern mountainous province of Lai Chau.
