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<span style="font-weight: bold"> Confirmed : Caribbean nations set ...row ( BBC )...</span>
Caribbean countries will on Wednesday participate in a full scale simulation tsunami alert exercise to test the region's readiness to respond to a possible tsunami. The exercise, Caribe Wave 11, will be held in conjunction with the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA).It will assess tsunami and other coastal hazard warning systems for the region.Organisers say that as part of the exercise, countries in the Caribbean will receive an alert for a fake earthquake of 7.6 magnitude off the coast of the US Virgin Islands.Participants say the exercise is timely, following the devastating tsunami caused by the the 9.0 magnitude earthquake in Japan earlier this month.
<span style="font-weight: bold"> Confirmed : Caribbean nations set ...row ( BBC )...</span>
Caribbean countries will on Wednesday participate in a full scale simulation tsunami alert exercise to test the region's readiness to respond to a possible tsunami. The exercise, Caribe Wave 11, will be held in conjunction with the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA).It will assess tsunami and other coastal hazard warning systems for the region.Organisers say that as part of the exercise, countries in the Caribbean will receive an alert for a fake earthquake of 7.6 magnitude off the coast of the US Virgin Islands.Participants say the exercise is timely, following the devastating tsunami caused by the the 9.0 magnitude earthquake in Japan earlier this month.