Citizens will receive a series of test alerts from CY-Alert today as part of a 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 Civil Defense notes “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.”
Read HERE for all the information regarding the alerts you will receive on your cell phones.
As Civil Defense Spokesperson Chara Lazarou explained while speaking on the Alpha Kalimera show, those within the selected coverage area for the alerts will receive the CY-Alert, which will contain information tailored to the time they receive it.
“It may be an alert regarding an impending tsunami and some basic instructions on how to respond. It could be an alert that a tsunami is underway, along with one, two, or three things they need to do. Or it could be an alert stating that the alert has now ended, that we are out of danger, and that we are returning to normal. This is so we don’t alarm citizens who may not have had time to learn that a drill is currently taking place. It will be broadcast on the TV channel, so that loud sound we’ve heard in the past may not be audible.”
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Recipients, it is added, may receive more than one alert during this period. All alerts during the drill 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 the devastating tsunami that followed.”
