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Indian Ocean nations in tsunami test next week
A decade after the strongest tsunami in living memory, 24 countries spanning from Australia to South Africa will take part in a UN-backed simulation exercise next week to test their capacity to forecast and tackle similar disasters
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decade after thestrongest tsunami in living memory, 24 countries spanning from Australia toSouth Africa will take part in a UN-backed simulation exercise next week totest their capacity to forecast and tackle similar disasters.
The exercise, organized by UNESCO, will simulate a 9.1-magnitude earthquake south of the Indonesian island of Java beginning Sept. 9. A second 9.0-magnitude quake will be simulated at the Makran Trench south of Iran and Pakistan.
'Both scenarios will simulate tsunami waves travelling across the Indian Ocean,' UNESCO said in a statement.
The test is designed to examine an Indian Ocean tsunami warning system put in place after the Dec. 24, 2004 disaster which killed over 230,000 people, displaced more than 1 million people, and left a massive trail of destruction along the coasts of the affected countries.
It will check the
efficiency of communication flows between the
24 countries, general readiness and the efficiency of emergency
procedures.
The participating countries are Australia, Bangladesh, Comoros, East Timor, the French overseas department of La Reunion, India, Indonesia, Iran, Kenya, Madagascar, Malaysia, the Maldives, Mauritius, Mozambique, Myanmar, Oman, Pakistan, Seychelles, Singapore, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Thailand and Yemen
