Citizens will receive a series of test alerts from CY-Alert as part of the tsunami drill.
According to a related announcement by the Agency, “on Tuesday, November 10, 2026, from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., a series of test alerts will be sent to cell phones via the national early warning system CY-Alert. The alerts will be sent as part of the NEAMWave26 Mediterranean tsunami exercise, conducted by UNESCO’s tsunami early warning system.”
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As noted by the Civil Protection Agency “the alerts will be sent via the Exercise/Test channel and will be received only by those who have enabled alerts from this specific channel on their cell phones and, at the time each alert is sent and for the duration of its validity, are within the coastal zone designated for the test.”
Recipients, it is added, may receive more than one alert during this period. All alerts sent during the exercise are test alerts, and no action is required from those who receive them.
“The purpose of the test is to verify the process of sending alerts to the public via CY-Alert in a tsunami emergency scenario. The drill scenario for Cyprus is based on the historic earthquake of 1222, which measured 7.5 on the Richter scale and occurred in the waters south of Paphos, as well as on the devastating tsunami that followed.”
