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Viet Nam: Damage Caused by Flooding in Central Provinces


as of 16:00 on 10 December 1999
According to the official report by the CCFSC to DMU on 11 December 1999

Category
Description
Unit
TT- Hue
Quang Nam
Quang Ngai
Binh Dinh
Phu Yen
Khanh Hoa
Total
Report No.
6-BC
/UB
56/UB
30/CLB
22/CLB
17/CLB
Date of Report
08 Dec 99
08 Dec 99
36,503
05 Dec 99
07 Dec 99
07 Dec 99
People
People killed
No.
6
30
50
17
9
8
120
People injured
No.
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76
118
5
2
2
203
People missing
No.
1
3
4
Households evacuated
No.
268
6,000
9,672
15,940
Households need help
No.
30,000
4,554
34,554
Housing
Houses collapsed and washed away
No.
22
3,650
3,068
334
5
42
7,121
Houses flooded and damaged
No.
54,000
201,305
88,460
46,232
10,000
2,116
402,113
Classrooms destroyed
No.
34
101
135
Classrooms damaged
No.
233
444
677
Health Care
Clinic room collapsed and swept away
No.
4
15
19
Clinic room damaged
No.
36
64
100
Economic Loss: Housing
Mil. VND
Not yet available
Agriculture
Paddy inundated:
Ha
12,000
2,279
7,500
7,000
28,779
+ Paddy heavily damaged
Ha
+ Paddy destroyed
Ha
12,000
4,835
2,000
1,140
19,975
Other crops inundated
Ha
530
5,365
2,350
42
400
60
8,747
+ Other crops heavily damaged
Ha
+ Other crops destroyed
Ha
530
5,000
400
5,930
Food stock water-logged
Ton
8,970
8,570
5,460
23,000
Seeds water-logged
Ton
390
3,560
1,501
1,200
114
6,765
Industrial crops damaged
Ha
4,073
4,073
Industrial crops destroyed
Ha
150
150
Big livestock killed
No.
1,645
1,645
Small livestock killed
No.
22,800
554
23,354
Poultry killed
No.
147,000
146,823
2,200
296,023
Economic Loss: Agriculture
Mil. VND
Not yet available
Water Resource
Dyke damaged
m
15,000
1,750
10
16,760
Canal damaged
m
200,000
350,000
120,000
200,000
4,300
874,300
Small hydraulic structure damaged
No.
31
286
16
5
338
Transportation
Bridge destroyed
No.
3
450
453
Road damaged
m
86
36,000
36,086
Economic Loss: Transportation
Mil. VND
Not yet available
Fishery
Shrimp and fish pond destroyed
Ha
32,000
500
2,315
900
329
36,044
Fish and shrimp destroyed
Ton
181
25
11
217
Ships and boats sunk
No.
25
28
4
57
Ships and boats damaged
No.
Telecommunication
Telephone poles destroyed
No.
578
578
High tension poles destroyed
No.
Distribution poles destroyed
No.
Stock
Salt water-logged
Ton
34
34
Cement water-logged
Ton
76
76
Estimated Total Economic Loss To Date
(Mil.VND)
25,178
366,231
392,000
117,000
20,000
5,000
925,409
[Mil.USD]
1.80
26.16
28.00
8.36
1.43
0.36
66.10

English compilation prepared by UNDP Project VIE/97/002-Disaster Management Unit, 11 December 1999

Note: Blank Cells may indicate no damage or that no official report of damage has yet been received.