National Tsunami Mock Exercise to be Conducted by A&N Islands with INCOIS on World Tsunami Awareness Day

Sri Vijaya Puram, Nov 04: Along with the Countries on the Indian Ocean Rim, other Regional Tsunami Advisories Services providers, INCOIS, Hyderabad, the Union Territory of A&N Islands will be participating in the National Tsunami Mock Exercise tomorrow (Nov.5) coinciding with World Tsunami Awareness Day by Indian Tsunami Early Warning Centre (ITEWC), Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS), Ministry of Earth Sciences, Govt. of India, Hyderabad and other Service Providers of Indian Ocean Countries with the objective to validate the warning centre dissemination process for issuing Tsunami Bulletins, procedures of Agencies receiving and confirming Tsunami Bulletins, process of dissemination of Bulletins/Messages by the SEOC, EOCs and other Control Rooms to other responsible Agencies within their area or to the public, decision making process about public warnings and evacuations and proper communication method.
The INCOIS will be disseminating bulletins for scenarios simulating a Magnitude of Earthquake of Northern Sumatra, Indonesia commencing from 0900 hrs. on 5th November, 2024 and continuously issue bulletins in regular intervals and the State Emergency Operation Centre (SEOC) will receive all the bulletins from the INCOIS and the same will be disseminated to all the 6 Emergency Operation Centres (EOCs) and various Control Rooms of Port Management Board, Police Control Room, Electricity, APWD and Forest to test end-to-end communication channels and SOPs of respective District/Departments.