Tsunami simulation exercise

Caribbean countries will tomorrow participate in a full scale simulation tsunami alert exercise to test the region's readiness to respond to a possible disaster.



The exercise, dubbed Caribe Wave 11, will be held in conjunction with the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency.



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 7.6 magnitude earthquake off the coast of the US Virgin Islands.



Participants say the exercise is timely, following the devastating tsunami caused by the 9.0 magnitude earthquake in Japan earlier this month.