About 3,700 people took part in a large maneuver of responses to tsunami and related search and rescue at sea conducted in My An Commune, Phu My District, central Binh Dinh province on August 6 Tuesday. The drill was based on a scenario in which the province must cope with a tsunami caused by a powerful earthquake in the Philippines. According to the scenario, at 7:35 am on August 6, Binh Dinh authorities received a report that an earthquake of 8.8 degrees on the Richter scale occurred undersea southwest of the Philippines’ Luzon Island.
Search and rescue forces mobilized all possible facilities to search and save victims of the tsunami. Health workers gave first aid to the victims and carried people in critical condition to hospitals.
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