A source from the Regional Secretary for Health and Civil Protection has assured that the National Emergency and Civil Protection Authority (ANEPC) did not leave the Autonomous Region of Madeira out of a simulation, that assesses the degree of readiness of the institutions involved in the protection of people and property in the event of a tsunami in the Northeast Atlantic region, Mediterranean and Related Seas.
A team from the Madeiran Regional Civil Protection Service (SRPC) will be present alongside the National Emergency and Civil Protection Authority (ANEPC), and the Portuguese Institute of Atmosphere and Sea (IPMA) in exercise ‘Neamwave23,’ tomorrow, the 6th of November.
For the second year in a row, the Regional Civil Protection Service (SRPC) was called and invited to participate in a ‘tsunami’ simulation test.
‘Neamwave23’ is an exercise to test the alertness and degree of readiness of the institutions involved in the protection of people and property in the event of a ‘tsunami’ in the region of the Northeast Atlantic, Mediterranean, and Related Seas said a spokesperson from the IPMA.
Also according to the IPMA statement, the exercise consists of a set of communications during which the various stakeholders at national and international levels will exchange technical and operational notifications related to the eventuality of an earthquake, responsible for the generation of a ‘tsunami’ with an impact on the coasts of the Northeast Atlantic region.
In turn, the IPMA explains that “it intervenes as a Tsunami Warning Centre responsible for monitoring, detecting and disseminating tsunami warnings to national coordinating entities, as well as to emergency management entities in several countries in the Northeast Atlantic (Morocco, Spain, United Kingdom, Denmark, France, Germany, and Ireland, among others).
ANEPC, on the other hand, intervenes with “various levels of the structure of the national civil protection system, national, regional and sub-regional,” in close articulation with the municipalities and ensuring the connection with the other participating agents and entities.
Samantha Gannon
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