Since 2015, the UNESCO/IOC has been promoting the Tsunami Ready Recognition Programme as an international performance-based community recognition pilot consisting of key actions that help to reduce...
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Three South Java Villages Getting Tsunami Ready
Three villages in South Java Indonesia, Tambakrejo Village (East Java), Kemadang and Glagah (Yogyakarta) are implementing the UNESCO-IOC Tsunami Ready Recognition Programme (TRRP). With the advocacy...
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From 8 to 10 March UNESCO coordinates tsunami preparedness in the Mediterranean and North-Eastern Atlantic
The countries bordering the North-East Atlantic, the Mediterranean and adjacent seas will take part from 8 to 10 March in a tsunami preparedness exercise, set up under the aegis of UNESCO's...
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Serious tsunami hits Greece and Turkey after 7.0 earthquake
On 30 October 2020, a significant tsunami triggered by an earthquake of magnitude 7.0 Mw hit the island of Samos (Greece) and the Aegean coast of the Izmir region (Turkey). The event shed light --...
Guidelines for Tsunami Warning Services, Evacuation, and Sheltering during COVID-19
Purpose This document is aimed at national authorities responsible for the organisation of tsunami warning and emergency response. It clarifies the status of the regional tsunami services for the...
Tsunami warning and mitigation systems to protect coastal communities: tsunami early warning and mitigation system in the North-Eastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean and connected seas (NEAMTWS) 2005 - 2020
Background This Fact Sheet describes the development and main elements of ICG/NEAMTWS. In particular, it highlights the achievements, and contributions of NEAMTWS to disaster risk reduction, UN...
Guide on Tsunami Evacuation during COVID-19
Background In many areas, the Coronavirus Pandemic (COVID-19) has overwhelmed humanitarian organisations and disaster management agencies. A critical question in natural disaster response in the...
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Capacity Assessment of Tsunami Preparedness in the Indian Ocean: Status Report, 2018
INTRODUCTION The Indian Ocean tsunami of 26 December 2004 resulted in over 230,000 casualties and the displacement of over 1 million people in coastal communities around the Indian Ocean making it...
Preparación para Evacuaciones de Comunidades en Caso de Tsunami, De mapas de inundación a mapas de evacuación, planes de respuesta y simulaciones
Antecedentes En julio de 2014 el Comité de Dirección del Grupo Intergubernamental de Coordinación del Sistema de Alerta contra los Tsunamis y Atenuación de sus Efectos en el Pacífico (PTWS-SC) apoyó...
Preparing for Community Tsunami Evacuations, From Inundation to Evacuation Maps, Response Plans, and Exercises
Background In July 2014, the Steering Committee of the Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Pacific Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System (PTWS-SC) endorsed the recommendation of Working...
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Caribe Wave 2020 Exercise in the Caribbean and Adjacent Regions - 19 March 2020
The Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Tsunami and Other Coastal Hazards Warning System for the Caribbean and Adjacent Regions at its eighth session (ICG/CARIBE EWS-VIII, Port of Spain,...
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Towards a safer ocean? Puerto Rico earthquakes an urgent call for better early warning and awareness in the Ocean Decade
The 2019-2020 earthquake sequence in Puerto Rico may have – the first of such destructive disasters of the new year and Decade – highlighted the need to raise disaster research and readiness above...
Preparing for the Next Tsunami: Reducing Losses and Damages in the Coastal Western Mediterranean Areas Summary Recommendations [EN/AR/FR]
INTRODUCTION Representatives of governmental, scientific and emergency management institutions from the Maghreb countries gathered in Rabat, Morocco,on the 15 and 16 November 2018 for a workshop on...
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Strengthening Tsunami Warning in Jakarta (Indonesia)
20-22 November 2019 - In commemoration of the World Tsunami Awareness Day (5 November 2019) the Government of Indonesia and the UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission partnered to...
Limitations and challenges of early warning systems: A case study of the 2018 Palu-Donggala Tsunami
Foreword Located along the most seismically active zone in the world, Indonesia is no stranger to disasters, in particular, extreme weather events and natural hazards. On 28 September 2018, a tsunami...
Partnership for Strengthening School Preparedness for Tsunami in Asia and the Pacific
The Sub-Regional Lessons Learnt and Work Planning Meeting of the Phase II of the “Partnerships for Strengthening School Preparedness for Tsunami in Asia and the Pacific” project was held in Nadi,...
Saving lives in the Pacific: International tsunami warning and mitigation experts meet in Nicaragua to coordinate efforts
San Rafael del Sur, Nicaragua: The Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Pacific Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System (ICG/PTWS) will meet from 2 to 5 April, with 61 participants from 20...
Countries of the Caribbean test tsunami warning system
On 14 March, the countries of the Caribbean Sea will engage in the Caribe Wave 19 exercise to test the effectiveness the Tsunami and Other Coastal Hazards Early Warning System, established in 2005...
El Caribe pone a prueba su sistema de alerta contra tsunamis
París, 11 de marzo – Los países ribereños del Mar Caribe organizan el 14 de marzo un ejercicio de ensayo para evaluar y actualizar sus planes de respuesta a los tsunamis. Este ejercicio pondrá a...
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO to work with Indonesia following Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami
Since the Indian Ocean Tsunami of 26 December 2004, much progress has been made in establishing IOC-coordinated regional tsunami early warning and mitigation systems in the Indian Ocean, Caribbean...