India to take part in Indian Ocean-wide tsunami mock drill

India is participating in a major Indian Ocean-wide tsunami mock drill on September 7-8 during which thousands of people will be evacuated from coastal areas in over half a dozen states and warning and detection systems will be put to test.

The massive exercise, which will see participation from 23 other Indian Ocean nations, would involve evacuation of around 35,000 people from the coastal communities mostly in Odisha and also in Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Kerala, Gujarat and Goa.

The end-to-end warning systems - from tsunami detection and forecast, threat evaluation and alert formulation, dissemination to public and their awareness and responses - will be put to test during the mock drill.