The exercise promoted by the National Emergency and Civil Protection Authority (ANEPC), in collaboration with several public and private entities, aims to enable the population to learn how to act in the event of an earthquake.

“The exercise involves carrying out 3 simple gestures that can make a difference for those who practice them in the event of an earthquake. The action takes place for one minute, in which participants, individually or collectively (families, schools, companies, public, private or associative institutions), are invited to perform the 3 self-protection gestures: Drop, Cover, and Hold”, explains Civil Protection.

In the Algarve, and with the support of Silves City Council, a main event of the exercise will be promoted at Escola Básica Dr. Garcia Domingues, in Silves.

At the end of this action, a LIVEX Exercise (Live Exercise) will take place, “with the movement of real resources on the ground, as a sectoral test of the Special Civil Protection Emergency Plan for Seismic Risk and Tsunamis in the Algarve, in the Search and Help Intervention area, with 7 different scenarios – PROCIVALG_24.2, in the municipalities of Portimão and Silves”, according to ANEPC.

In Praia da Rocha, in partnership with the Municipal Civil Protection Service of Portimão, “the sirens of the pilot project of the population warning system, installed in the bathing area, will be activated, with subsequent evacuation of people and animals from the identified risk areas, through signposted routes to the meeting points, carrying out emergency procedures following a tsunami warning”.

With all this, civil protection aims to teach the population to “know what to do before, during and after an earthquake, in particular knowing the preventive measures and self-protection behaviours to be adopted, this is the purpose of this journey that we propose to everyone citizens”.