The Fiji National Disaster Management Office in collaboration with the Seismology Unit of the Department of Mineral Resources will be conducting LIVE TESTS on the Tsunami Sirens on Thursday 5 March 2020 at 1100hrs to 1200hrs.
This is Government’s commitment in ensuring its state of readiness should any tsunami event occur.
The tsunami sirens are installed in the following areas:
1) WAF Kinoya
2) FINTEL Vatuwaqa
3) RFMF OTS Vatuwaqa
4) USP Statham Campus
5) USP Laucala Campus
6) USP Lower Campus
7) My Suva Park
8) GTC Nasese
9) I Taukei Trust Fund Board Building
10) Civic Car Park
11) Biosecurity
12) GSS Walu Bay
13) Lami Town
The NDMO wish to advise the general public that evacuation will NOT be required. However, communities and businesses along the Suva peninsula and foreshore ARE ADVISED to use this tsunami siren test to identify and test their evacuation procedures in terms of their designated safe route and safe assembly areas and zone.
In addition to this, it is equally important for the public to get acquainted with the sound of the tsunami early warning sirens.
NDMO welcomes any feedback and comments from the general public on the live test in terms of the clarity of the sound of the sirens and the adequacy of the acoustic range. Comments are to be sent to neocfiji@gmail.com
For further queries, please call NDMO on 3319250 or email neocfiji@gmail.com. You can also get in touch via Facebook on @FijiNDMO or on Twitter on @FijiNDMO.
SOURCE: Public Advisory from the Fiji National Disaster Management Office
