Panic in Vung Tau

Today's earthquake in Taiwan (7.2 on the Richter scale) caused a tsunami warning to be issued to parts of the Philippines. The threatened tsunami never appeared.

Meanwhile, somehow or other, the message got through to Vung Tau, Vietnam, that a tsunami was on its way within the hour.

According to Lan's family, the result was chaos. People on the Front Beach ran to the Back Beach and people on the Back Beach ran to the Front Beach. Lan's eldest son walked up the adjacent hill to the lighthouse. While the younger son took a lift with his girl friend 25km in land.

As far as I am aware, the evening passed without any calamity.

If you look at a map you will see there is no direct line from Taiwan to Vung Tau, though a hypothetical tidal wave might have swept round the curve of Vietnam, having hit cities such as Danang first.