Puerto Vallarta News

Puerto Vallarta News

Four thousand people in Puerto Vallarta ‘ran to save their lives’ in a tsunami drill

With the participation of almost 4 thousand people, a tsunami drill was held in downtown Puerto Vallarta on Tuesday, within the framework of World Tsunami Awareness Day.

Around 4,000 people participated in the exercise, of which at least 2,200 were students from three kindergartens and five primary schools in the downtown area, who at about 10:00 in the morning began the drill with the sounds of the city tsunami alarm sirens installed in the vicinity of the Cuale River.

During the drill, all 4,000 people successfully evacuated to higher ground within three minutes.

The Vice Admiral . . .

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