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NMI joins other nations in Pacific-wide tsunami drill
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Posted on May 16 2006
The CNMI is participating in today’s first-ever trans-Pacific tsunami drill, according to Emergency Management Office director Gregorio Deleon Guerrero yesterday.
Deleon Guerrero explained, though, that the CNMI would not conduct a full-scale exercise, as only the EMO’s operation center will be involved in the drill.
“We’re going to participate only in the notification [aspect],” said the director, pointing out that when EMO’s operation center receives the warning from the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii about mock earthquakes, they are going to relay the message to their staff and to the governor.
Deleon Guerrero said they would send back to Hawaii the time when EMO receives the warning.
“I think this is the first Pacific-wide tsunami exercise,” he said, adding that the drill would test EMO’s preparedness to respond to such warning and if proper measures are taken.
More than two dozen countries are joining the drill called “Exercise Pacific Wave 2006.” The CNMI, the Philippines, Palau, and the Federated States of Micronesia are among the participants.
