The National Disaster Management Agency (NaDMA) continues its preparation for the hosting of CARIBE WAVE 2019, carded for Thursday 14^th March, 2019.

This year’s Scenario is a first of its kind for the exercise. It will involve a simulated Eruption of Kick Em Jenny at 10.00am causing a 6.0 magnitude earthquake at a depth of 10km which triggers a Tsunami with waves of up to 0.86 m (2.8 ft).

The exercise will be held mainly in St. Patrick, but triggering a national response.  

2019 exercise gives Grenada a unique opportunity to test the SOP (Standard Operating Protocol) created in 2018 as part of a pilot Tsunami Ready project launched in St. Patrick. The exercise will be conducted simultaneously in Carriacou and Petite Martinique.

We therefore encourage the general public to go onto the website Tsunami zone.org  to register for the exercise.  

So far the Agency as already completed a number of meetings with stakeholders from the St. Patrick community and also national stakeholders. In addition, direct community interactive sessions are ongoing, sensitizing people of the exercise and expectations of them.

CARIBE WAVE (Caribbean Tsunami Warning Exercise) is a tsunami exercise held annually in the Caribbean, including Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, under the direction of UNESCO and the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center.

The purpose of the CARIBEWAVE exercise is to improve the effectiveness of the Tsunami Warning System along the Caribbean coast.  The exercise provides an opportunity for emergency management organizations throughout the region to test their operational lines of communications, review their tsunami response procedures, and to promote tsunami preparedness.  

The objectives of the CARIBE WAVE Exercise are to test and evaluate the operations of the Caribbean Tsunami Warning System (Caribe EWS), to validate preparedness response to a tsunamis (which are test protocols and communications systems between tsunami warning centers and the tsunami warning focal points), and the use of the PTWC (Pacific Tsunami Warning Center) enhanced tsunami products  for the Caribbean, as well as assist in tsunami preparedness efforts of the emergency management agencies in those areas.

For additional information, please contact Ms. Oslyn Crosby Public Relations Officer, NaDMA on 440-8390/ 440-0838, or 533-0766 email: nadma@spiceisle.com / nadmapr@gmail.com . 

NaDMA, the official source for all disaster related information in Grenada.