Australia survives virtual tsunami

THE Joint Australian Tsunami Warning Centre (JATWC) recently simulated a full-scale tsunami in the Indian Ocean as part of UNESCO's Exercise Indian Ocean Wave 2020 (IOWave20) involving 23 countries, to test the tsunami warning and response chain. The JATWC uses the combined resources of the Bureau of Meteorology and Geoscience Australia to detect and assess tsunami threat in our region. In this exercise it was dealing with the effects of a tsunami impacting much of Australia's west coast following a massive faux magnitude 9.1 earthquake south of Java, Indonesia. The National Earthquake Alerts Centre (NEAC), operated by Geoscience Australia, monitors earthquakes globally and alerts the Bureau of earthquakes that could generate a tsunami. The Bureau then assesses the tsunami threat and issues warnings to Australia. The Bureau of Meteorology's co-director of the JATWC,…

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