This Thursday, March 14, the Prefecture of Saint-Barthélemy and Saint-Martin will participate in an annual exercise on the “Tsunami” risk in the Caribbean.
Every year since 2009, the Intergovernmental Coordination Group of the Tsunami Warning System and Coastal Risks in the Caribbean Zone has organized a full-scale exercise to prepare for the major risk of marine submersion. About 200 countries and territories in the Caribbean, representing nearly 000 people are participating in the exercise. According to the established scenario, a fictitious earthquake of magnitude 6.0 will generate the collapse of the flank of the Kick'em Jenny volcano near the island of Grenada. The impact on the northern islands will be low.
March 14 fiscal year
The alert reception center (Météo France) will receive a call from the Hawaii tsunami alert center (alert center for the Caribbean). Upon receipt and transmission to the alert management center (in the prefecture of Saint-Barthélemy and Saint-Martin), all actors (communities, State services, etc.) will activate the alert and warning procedures. public information. This exercise will test:
• The early warning system for public authorities responsible for crisis management;
• The procedures for disseminating the rapid top-down alert to the population (operational services, communities, operators and the media);
• The alert procedures of public and private schools and the methods of preparation for evacuation. The State services will be mobilized to test the means of communication and the Departmental Operational Center will be activated by the
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