Saturday, December 26, 2009

20091014 Tsunami exercises run in 27 nations around Indian Ocean

KUALA LUMPUR - Twenty seven nations around the Indian Ocean simultaneously staged tsunami exercises on Wednesday to help their residents practice self-protecting skills, local reports said.

In Malaysia, the tsunami "alerts" were issued from Putrajaya, the administrative center of Malaysia, to Langkawi, a resort island in northern Malaysia, following "warnings" from tsunami watch centers in Hawaii, the United States, and Tokyo, Japan.

The exercise was a success because the relevant authorities from the police, and the civil defense, social welfare and information departments managed to communicate and coordinate the task well, it added.

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