Timor-Leste carried out IOWave16 Tsunami Exercise to test communication links & community response
Timor-Leste took part in the IOWave16 Tsunami Exercise. Various drills were carried out in order to test standard operating procedures and enhance community response. The country is one of the 24 Indian Ocean countries participating in the IOWave16 Regional Tsunami Exercise.
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Photo credits: Eivind Oskarson / UNRCO Timor-Leste
This Tsunami Preparedness Platform is a collaborative effort of United Nations ESCAP, the Indonesian Agency for Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics (BMKG), the Indian Ocean Tsunami Information Centre (IOTIC) and the Indonesian National Disaster Management Authority (BNPB), in part realized through generous funding by the Government of Japan.