Kos to hold tsunami drill on Nov. 19

The European Commission's Joint Research Center (JRC), emergency services and the local community on the eastern Aegean island of Kos will hold a tsunami drill next Tuesday morning (Nov. 19), the Commission announced last Friday.

Kos was hit by a destructive 6.6 magnitude earthquake on July 20, 2017,which killed two tourists and injured dozens. The tremor was followed by a small-scale tsunami which reached 1.5 meters in height.

The emergency exercise will test the new equipment and emergency procedures introduced under the EU project "Tsunami Last Mile,"after the 2017 tsunami.
The drill will start at 9 a.m., with scientists simulating an earthquake and programming the sensors to read the same wave height as the one recorded during the underwater tremor of 2017.

The exercise will last four hours and will involve the entire localemergency system: municipal...