The typhoon -- the fifth to affect Vietnam this year -- is currently at sea, roiling the Gulf of Tonkin with waves of up to 9.5 metres (31 feet).
The waterfront city of Vinh was deluged overnight, its streets largely deserted by morning with most shops and restaurants closed as residents and business-owners sandbagged their property entrances.
Two domestic airports were shut and all fishing ships in the typhoon's path have been called back to harbour.
“I am a bit scared, but then we have to accept it because it’s nature -- we cannot do anything,“ he told AFP, among only a few dozen people camped out at the evacuation site on Monday morning.
'Never this big'
“Normally we get storms and flooding, but never this big,“ said 52-year-old evacuee Nguyen Thi Nhan.
The Joint Typhoon Warning Center said conditions suggested “an approaching weakening trend as the system approaches the continental shelf of the Gulf of Tonkin where there is less ocean heat content”.
The island's main city, Sanya, closed scenic areas and halted business operations.
Economic losses have been estimated at more than $21 million.
Vietnam suffered $3.3 billion in economic losses last September as a result of Typhoon Yagi, which swept across the country's north and caused hundreds of fatalities. - AFP
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