The Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS) is all set to participate in a major Indian Ocean-wide tsunami mock exercise, IOWave23, along with several other nations, by simulating an earthquake with a magnitude of 9.0 in Andaman Trench at 9.30 p.m. on October 4.
The Indian Tsunami Early Warning Centre (ITEWC) at INCOIS, under the Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES), will issue test tsunami bulletins to both national and regional stakeholders through Global Telecommunication System (GTS), email, fax, SMS - as well as share the bulletin on INCOIS website.
“Due care will be taken to ensure people are not inadvertently alarmed,” said director T. Srinivasa Kumar on Tuesday.
