The U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) was lead for the exercise, and created the imaginary scenario of a morning quake on June 7, followed by strong aftershocks and a tsunami. Paul Kovacs, a disaster-planning expert, says the federal performance in an earthquake exercise called Pacific Quake '16 was inadequate. 'Confusion' and 'delays'Stung by the findings, Public Safety created a Federal Emergency Response Plan — but the internal document found that the plan was full of holes. A spokesman for Public Safety Canada says the exercise has helped officials to bolster emergency planning. (CBC)Levert said no date has been set for the federal government's next major earthquake exercise.

Source: CBC News January 29, 2017 09:56 UTC