Overview
- Organizers estimate that 9,341,956 students, 612,924 teachers and 112,724 school sites will take part in the drills scheduled for Friday, August 14, delivered in three shifts to match school hours.
- Voceros from the national emergency agency INDECI and the Geophysical Institute of Peru confirmed the central scenario will simulate a magnitude-8.8 earthquake with an epicenter off the central coast of Lima and Callao followed by a tsunami threat for coastal schools.
- Regions vulnerable to the Fenómeno El Niño will run scenarios for heavy rains, floods and huaicos while other areas will practice responses tailored to their most common local hazards.
- Authorities and media have circulated clear safety steps for participants, including keeping calm, following school evacuation routes to internal and external safe zones, carrying emergency kits and moving to higher ground if a tsunami alert is issued.
- Peru relies on recurring school drills because its coast and highlands face frequent earthquakes, tsunamis and El Niño events, and officials say lessons from this second multiperil exercise of the year will guide future resource allocation and emergency planning.