Portugal participated in the international tsunami response exercise
2014-11-03 (IPMA)
Portugal participated through the ANPC and IPMA, in international exercise to test the responsiveness to a tsunami affecting our coastlines.
The exercise, called NEAMWave14, held between 28 and 30 October, foresaw four possible scenarios of occurrence of tsunami.
Besides Portugal, 20 other countries around the Mediterranean and North Atlantic: Croatia, Cyprus, Egypt, Finland, France, Greece, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Lebanon, Malta, Monaco, Morocco, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Spain Sweden, Turkey and United Kingdom, participate in the exercice.
The goal of the exercise was to test the responsiveness of the participants that comprise the Early Warning System of the Northeast Atlantic, Mediterranean and connected seas, constituted under the aegis of UNESCO's Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC).
The IPMA worked as Warning Center for the National System of Civil Protection and the authorities of the countries of the north Atlantic, having performed the detection and monitoring the evolution of a tsunami generated by seismic event with origin located southwest of Cape scenery São Vicente.
The ANPC, which involved the entire operating structure this year, spread the pertinent technical and operational information for the protection and management of relief operations and assess the ability of the warning and alert system implemented to respond to such emergencies involving three operating levels that contribute to the effect: national, provincial and municipal.
In the end, the exercise allowed the assessment of the reliability of the solutions implemented by the two institutions in relation to tsunami warnings, allowing the competent national authorities improve their preparedness for responding to such dangers.
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