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Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Civilian agencies to take part in BALIKATAN 2012

Filipino and American soldiers, together with civilian personnel of government agencies, will simulate humanitarian assistance and disaster response (HA/DR) in an event-scenario of a Japan-like earthquake during this year's Balikatan Exercise.


The HA/DR efforts will focus on a scenario of  "an earthquake originating from the West Valley Fault (a part of the Valley Fault System formerly known as Marikina Fault) and the subsequent disaster that it will entail." The HA/DR Command Post Exercise, which will be installed in the National Capital Region Command in Camp Aguinaldo, Quezon City, will simulate and plan to address the devastation of a magnitude 8.1 earthquake.

It will be participated in by the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management/Office of Civil Defense, Metro Manila Disaster Coordinating Council, AFP, United States Agency for International Development, U.S. Pacific Command, United Nations Country Team, U.N. Office of the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, World Food Program, International Federation of the Red Cross and the Philippine Red Cross.

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