Today, 33 counties are participating in the Caribbean’s first full-scale tsunami warning exercise, which has been named Caribe Wave 11.
Designed to test the performance of weather forecast offices, national coast guards and other responders, the exercise will be based upon a fictitious earthquake of 7.6 magnitude off the coat of the U.S. Virgin Islands at 18.2 degrees N, 65.3 degrees W.
Over the last 500 years, at least 75 tsunamis have been recorded in the Caribbean. According to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Caribbean tsunamis have killed mored than 3,500 in the region since the mid-19th century.
The countries taking part in the tsunami alert exercise are: Aruba, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, France (Martinique, Guadeloupe, St. Martin, Guyane), Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Netherlands (Bonaire, Saba, Sint Eustatius, Curacao and Sint Marteen), Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom (Anguilla, British Virgin Islands, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Montserrat, Turks and Caicos), and the United States.
SOURCE: ENS Newswire.
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