Mock tsunami exercise conducted
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Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Friday directed the Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) to submit an explanation regarding its failure to predict the thunderstorms that struck Punjab, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. PHOTO: Online
KARACHI:
Pakistan Meteorological Department, Karachi, conducted a mock drill for a 9.2 magnitude earthquake on the Richter scale near Sumatra in Indonesia and the subsequent tsunami it is likely to cause.
The Meteorological Department conducted the mock exercise at the Karachi Seismic Center, during which information was exchanged with other countries through mutual communication after the mock earthquake.