Dak Nong Province in Vietnam’s Central Highlands region has declared a state of emergency after severe landslides and earth cracks hit three locations in the area, said a local official on Tuesday evening.

The natural disasters struck the Dak N’ting reservoir in Dak Glong District, the National Highway 14 section passing through Gia Nghia City, and an area in Tuy Duc District, according to Le Trong Yen, vice-chairman of the provincial administration.

The landslide which hit the Dak N’ting reservoir measured roughly 400 meters long and some 30 meters wide, endangering the safety of irrigation facilities as well as the surrounding households and areas.

Meanwhile, landslides and fissures on the National Highway 14 section showed complicated developments, measuring some 40 meters long and around 4.5 meters deep.

The fissures left a significantly negative impact on traffic movement as well as threatened the safety of 16 households and their properties in the affected area.

Fissures detected in an area in Tuy Duc have a total length of some 540 meters and are located about 300 meters away from the Dak Ke hydropower reservoir.

The natural disasters destabilized the traffic infrastructure system and houses, affecting vehicular movement and the safety of local people, Yen elaborated.

Over the past few weeks, landslides, flash floods, and flooding have hit multiple provinces and cities in Vietnam, especially northern and Central Highlands localities.

Last week, authorities in the Central Highlands of Lam Dong evacuated residents from the Dong Thanh irrigation reservoir project in Lam Ha District, where huge cracks led to land subsidence in the nearby area and posed a threat to residential safety.

The cracks, measuring five to 10 centimeters wide, appeared in an area of 2.5 hectares around the irrigation lake after torrential rain occurred there for several days.

In Dak Nong, land erosion hit two roads in Dak R'Lap District and four other roads and infrastructure facilities in the border district of Tuy Duc.

Another landslide also affected a bypass of National Highway 14 in neighboring Dak Lak Province.

In the northern mountainous region, Ho Bon Commune in Mu Cang Chai District, Yen Bai Province remained isolated with many villages and the commune center covered in rocks and mud, after it was battered by flash floods last Saturday.

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