Dubbed "Exercise Indian Ocean Wave 09", the joint exercise on October 14 will replicate the massive earthquake that struck off the Indonesian coast in 2004, triggering a tsunami that killed some 217,000 people in 11 countries.
Held on World Disaster Reduction Day, it will be the first ocean-wide test of the Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System, known as IOTWS, set up by UNESCO the following year.
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The simulated tsunami will spread in real time across the entire Indian Ocean, taking around 12 hours to travel from Indonesia to the South African coast, the UN agency said in a statement.
Bulletins on seismic and sea level data will be sent from the Japan Meteorogical Agency in Tokyo and the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii, to national tsunami warning centres across the Indian Ocean.
Newly-established watch centres in Australia, India and Indonesia -- which are due in the near future to take over from Hawaii and Tokyo as monitors for the region -- will also take