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PACIFIC NATIONS ENGAGE IN UN-BACKED TSUNAMI PREPAREDNESS EXERCISENew
York, May 6 2013 12:00PMMore than 30 Pacific Rim countries are taking
part in a United Nations-backed tsunami warning exercise to improve
their ability to respond to an alert and enhance regional coordination
in the event of a disaster.

According to the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
(UNESCO), which is coordinating the two-week long warning exercise
through its Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC), around
75 per cent of the world's tsunamis occur in the Pacific Ocean and
connected seas.

UNESCO says the region has been struck by four tsunamis in the past
five years: Samoa, American Samoa, and Tonga were hit in 2009; Chile
in 2010; Japan in 2011; and the Solomon Islands in 2013. In addition,
an average of one or two local tsunamis has struck worldwide every
year over the past century.

The test, which runs from 1 May to 14 May, comes on the heels of a
similar tsunami warning exercise conducted in the Caribbean in March
and will aim to validate new tsunami forecasting products slated for
adoption next year.

In a <"http://www.unesco.org/new/en/media-services/single-view/news/pacific_tsunami_warning_system_put_to_the_test/">news
release confirming the test, called Exercise Pacific Wave 2013, UNESCO
noted that the enhancements would help the 39 countries involved
improve their response capability in the event of a tsunami and were
"to reduce significantly the number of areas warned unnecessarily and
to help provide advanced notice of potential local tsunamis."

Exercise Pacific Wave 2013, also known as PacWave13, will simulate a
tsunami warning situation requiring Government decision-making
regarding three scenarios for possible earthquakes occurring either
off the northern coasts of Japan, the Philippines or Chile, which will
generate destructive tsunamis, said UNESCO.

Each Pacific country participating in the exercise will select one of
these three scenarios with the evaluation of the outcome expected for
31 May.May 6 2013 12:00PM
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