Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnam hasexerted efforts to improve the accuracy of storm forecasts as exact informationhelps people minimise losses.
The statement was made by deputy head ofthe Vietnam Disaster Management Authority Vu Xuan Thanh at a conference inHanoi on October 25 to look back 20 years since Typhoon Linda hit Vietnam.
Thanh said that in recent years, thequality of storm forecasts was improved, with information about the storm’s developmentsprovided before 72 hours compared with the 24 hours in 1997.
Drastic measures have been taken to raisefishermen’s awareness of following authorities’ directions, while more capitalhas been poured into building shelter facilities, recovering protection forestsand upgrading the dyke system.
Dang Quang Tinh, former director of the Departmentof Dyke Management under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development,noted that huge losses of Typhoon Linda were caused by the subjectivity in disasterprevention and control.
Typhoon Linda hit Vietnam on November 2-3,1997, affecting 21 southern localities. It claimed 778 lives, left 2,123missing and 1,232 injured.
The typhoon also made 2,897 boats sunk and316 others missing, 107,892 houses destroyed and 204,564 houses damaged, and323,050ha rice paddies inundated. Almost all coastal dykes in the Mekong Deltaprovinces of Kien Giang, Ca Mau, Bac Lieu, Soc Trang, Tra Vinh, Ben Tre andTien Giang were damaged.
The asset losses were estimated at nearly7.2 trillion VND (316.8 million USD).-VNA
The National Centre for Hydrometeorogical Forecasting warned that two or four storms and low pressures will arise in the East Sea in September, and one or two of which may affect the country’s mainland.
About six to eight storms and low pressures are forecast to operate in the East Sea in the rest of the year, with two or three of them directly affecting Vietnam, especially the central region.
The flooding triggered by the Doksuri storm that swept through the central region of Vietnam 10 days ago continued to isolate a community in a remote area of Quang Binh province.
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Wutip, the first storm in the East Sea so far this year, has wreaked havoc across central Vietnam, claiming lives, displacing residents, and causing widespread damage to houses, crops, and infrastructure, the Department of Dyke Management and Disaster Prevention and Control reported as of 6:30 pm on June 13.
The tremor occurred at 7:39:46 am (Hanoi time), with the epicentre located at latitude 14.924°N and longitude 108.236°E, at a depth of approximately 8.1 kilometres. The natural disaster risk level was classified as 0 – the lowest on the scale.
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The dispatch noted that since the beginning of 2025, natural disasters have claimed 29 lives and left several others missing. A total of 67 houses have collapsed, and 2,342 homes have been unroofed or damaged.
Its Forest Protection Sub-department has applied various specialised software and information technologies in forest management and protection and fire prevention.
Flooding in Vietnam (Photo: VNA) 
