Thursday, March 21, 2013

Caribbean Tsunami Warning Exercise

The Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission is currently conducting a Caribbean tsunami warning system test. The Participant Handbook for "EXERCISE CARIBE WAVE/LANTEX 13: A Caribbean Tsunami Warning" is available. Here is the start message I received for the exercise:


Subject: [Tsunami Message - IOC] Local Tsunami Watch Message
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 13:03:18 +0000
From: tsunami-information-ioc@lists.unesco.org
Reply-To: tsunami-information-ioc@lists.unesco.org
To: IOC_Public_Lists@ptwc.noaa.gov

TEST...TSUNAMI EXERCISE MESSAGE NUMBER 1...TEST
NWS PACIFIC TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER/NOAA/NWS
ISSUED AT 1302Z 20 MAR 2013

...THIS MESSAGE IS FOR TEST PURPOSES ONLY...
...CARIBE WAVE 13/LANTEX 13 TSUNAMI EXERCISE MESSAGE. REFER TO PTWC
MESSAGE 1 IN THE EXERCISE HANDBOOK. THIS IS AN EXERCISE ONLY...

THIS MESSAGE IS BEING USED TO START THE CARIBE WAVE 13/LANTEX 13
CARIBBEAN TSUNAMI EXERCISE. THIS WILL BE THE ONLY EXERCISE MESSAGE
BROADCAST FROM THE PACIFIC TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER EXCLUDING SPECIAL
EMAIL MESSAGES DISCUSSED IN THE HANDBOOK. THE HANDBOOK IS AVAILABLE
AT THE WEB SITE WCATWC.ARH.NOAA.GOV. THE EXERCISE PURPOSE IS TO
PROVIDE EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT A REALISTIC SCENARIO TO TEST TSUNAMI
RESPONSE PLANS.

THIS IS ONLY AN EXERCISE.

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