US, Philippine troops train for ‘Japan-like’ quake

Filipino military spokesman Col. Arnulfo Marcelo Burgos said Sunday that next month’s drills would test how troops and disaster-response agencies would deal with a “Japan-like” quake that will be simulated using desktop computers at military headquarters in Manila. The maneuvers will form part of the two allies’ annual military exercises.
Burgos says Japan, along with Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, South Korea, Singapore and Vietnam, will send observers to the quake drills.
Japan and the Philippines lie in the Pacific “Ring of Fire,” where most of the world’s quakes occur.