How to prepare for Tuesday’s earthquake alert drill 

Mexico volition behaviour 1 of 2 yearly earthquake alert drills connected Tuesday greeting to trial its exigency effect capabilities successful cardinal and southwestern Mexico. Authorities are encouraging everybody to participate.

Alarms and wireless exigency alerts are acceptable to activate astatine 11:30 a.m. Tuesday. The drill volition beryllium based connected a hypothetical 8.1 magnitude earthquake centered conscionable offshore successful the Gulf of Tehuantepec.

The simulation volition activate the astir 15,000 informing alarm speakers distributed passim 11 states. (Crisanta Espinosa Aguilar/Cuartoscuro.com)

President Claudia Sheinbaum called the drill “one of the astir applicable prevention and civilian extortion exercises” that Mexico volition signifier this year.

Emergency unit and information agents volition behaviour inspections successful their respective operational areas. 

At the aforesaid time, Navy unit volition beryllium conducting a tsunami effect workout on the Pacific coast.

Laura Velázquez Alzúa, the coordinator of Mexico’s National Civil Protection Agency, said the year’s archetypal exigency drill “not lone promotes a civilization of prevention but besides allows america to measure exigency protocols and inter-institutional coordination.”

Tuesday’s drill volition activate the nation’s earthquake alert infrastructure, which features astir 15,000 speakers dispersed crossed 10 states (México state, Guerrero, Morelos, Puebla, Jalisco, Colima, Michoacán, Oaxaca, Tlaxcala and Chiapas) and Mexico City. Alert messages volition besides dependable connected the radio, tv and, successful the Mexico City metropolitan area, connected cellphones.

This volition beryllium the 2nd clip the cellphone alert strategy volition beryllium tested, and its effectiveness would correspond a important beforehand successful aboriginal alert technology. Chile is the lone state successful the Americas with a centralized nationalist alert system.

Mexico’s Digital Transformation and Telecommunications Agency has conducted 10 soundless tests of cellphone alert exertion with the practice of telecom companies Telefónica, Telcel and AT&T. The strategy is expected to nonstop written messages accompanied by an alarm to 5 cardinal cellphones. On Tuesday, the connection volition say, “This is simply a drill.”

Also connected Tuesday, the National Emergency Commission (CNE) volition convene with the virtual information of each 31 governors and the Mexico City mayor. The CNE volition behaviour an investigation of the workout and people a show reappraisal afterward.

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Instructions volition beryllium communicated to passengers utilizing nationalist proscription erstwhile the alarm sounds. Metro users successful Mexico City tin expect trains to travel to a halt for 3 minutes during the drill.

The most caller earthquake drill successful Mexico was held connected September 19, 2024, the day of some the 1985 and 2017 earthquakes successful cardinal Mexico.

Authorities person provided reminders astir the value of listening to nationalist messages and heeding the instructions of exigency personnel. Among their recommendations is to usage these drills to place harmless places, flight routes and hole an exigency “go bag,” including nonperishable food, h2o bottles, archetypal aid, a flashlight and important idiosyncratic documents.

With reports from El Universal, Infobae and El Economista