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On 27 August, Tamarindo and Sámara (Costa Rica) officially received the Tsunami Ready recognition by the President of the National Emergency Commission (CNE) Alexander Solís and Dr Silvia Chacón, Head of the SINAMOT Programme of Costa Rica's National University.

Held every year since 2011, CARIBE WAVE is a tsunami exercise organized by UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) in the Caribbean and Adjacent Regions, an area where coastal communities are at major risk of tsunamis. Especially amid the Covid-19 pandemic, practicing response…
Tsunami Ready

The Caribbean States and adjacent regions participated on 11 March in their annual tsunami preparedness exercise, set up under the aegis of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO (IOC-UNESCO), as they commemorated the tenth anniversary of the Tohoku earthquake in Japan, which…