By Khanyisa Tabata
14 October 2009
Eighteen countries bordering the Indian Ocean, including South Africa, are today taking part in an exercise to test a tsunami early warning system.
Dubbed "Exercise Indian Ocean Wave 09,” the United Nations-backed initiative will simulate a warning for a tsunami similar to the 2004 wave which killed more than 300-thousand people.
UNESCO says the simulated tsunami will spread in real time across the entire Indian Ocean, taking around 12 hours to travel from Indonesia to the South African coast.
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