PacWave 18: Tsunami Warning Exercise in the Pacific Ocean
When, local time:
Saturday, 1 September 2018 (All day) to Friday, 30 November 2018 (All day)
Type of Event:
Special Event
Contact:
Bernardo Aliaga (b.aliaga@unesco.org)
The aim of PacWave18 is to test country preparedness arrangements and operational procedures to respond and recover from a destructive tsunami, especially at the community level.
PacWave18 will include multiple scenarios to enable all Member States to select a distant, regional or local event that will impact their country. Scenarios will include past historical events, for instance the 2009 Tonga Trench (Samoa Islands Region), 2010 Peru-Chile Trench (near the coast of Central Chile), 2011 Japan Trench (near the coast of Honshu), and 2013 South Solomon Trench (Santa Cruz Islands) tsunamis.