DisasterAWARE®
Make better decisions, faster.
The #1 award-winning early warning and risk intelligence technology trusted by disaster managers worldwide
Providing near real-time, AI-enhanced hazard information for 28 natural, man-made, and biological hazard types as well as customizable Smart Alerts to protect your stationary and moving assets.
DisasterAWARE®
Make better decisions, faster.
The #1 award-winning early warning and risk intelligence technology trusted by disaster managers worldwide
Exercises and Training
World-class data, technology, and scenario design for enhanced readiness
Predictive Analytics
We make sense of accelerated change to help you shape outcomes and define the future
Resource Prioritization
Leading tools and expertise
to prioritize resources
and protect assets
What’s New
PDC's AI-assisted big data computing capabilities are bringing actionable insights to decision makers never before possible at a global scale. Find out how our advanced analytics capabilities can help you.
Anticipatory Risk Analysis
(2050)
(2050)
Access PDC's global hazard exposure and risk projections for the year 2050. The analysis includes a breakdown of exposure by country and multiple hazard types.
Global Risk and Vulnerability Analysis (2024)
View PDC's annual analysis of Global Risk and Vulnerability. The analysis covers key drivers of vulnerability broken down by country type.
Logistics planning and asset protection
MONITOR YOUR PHYSICAL AND MOVING ASSETS
Monitor your physical and moving assets that may be exposed to hazards by integrating your data securely through our API.
CREATE CUSTOM ASSET ALERTING THRESHOLDS
Utilize our Smart Alert feature to receive early warning notifications when one or more of your assets are in harms way.
GET QUICK ASSET EXPOSURE REPORTS
Utilize your reporting tool to estimate the capital exposure value and to quantify potential impacts of hazards to your most important assets.
LOCATE SAFE SITES FOR YOUR ASSETS
Leverage PDC's arsenal of historical hazard information and other data to locate low-risk sites for your assets.
Disaster Alert 8.0
Mobile App
Coming soon with Smart Location tracking!
Free for disaster management practitioners and the public, PDC's Disaster Alert mobile app provides around-the-clock early warning anywhere you travel.
Available on Andriod and iOS:
Play Store
App Store
AI for Humanity™
PDC’s artificial intelligence capabilities are driving new insights from pattern identification and complex trend analysis to support the strategic and tactical decision maker.
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Scientific Innovations in Global Early Warning
Anticipating Risk
PDC data scientists talk about the strategic advantage of rapid analysis during destabilizing events and some of the biggest innovations they’re working on in the Analytics Lab.
“The work we’ve done with PDC over the years to enhance early warning, as well as their expertise in risk assessment and predictive analytics has been integral to our operations and to the overall disaster risk reduction objectives of the ASEAN region.”
Advancing the mission to build a safer world
Colombia’s data-driven approach to creating safer, more resilient communities
Colombia’s latest milestone will help direct national investments and actions to reduce disaster risk and build resilience at the municipal level.
Scientific tools enhance disaster resilience and readiness in Honduras
New technology, training, and scientific information developed in partnership between Pacific Disaster Center and Honduras, with support from U.S. Southern Command, will help national stakeholders better anticipate potential disasters, quickly mobilize resources, and promote risk-informed decision-making that enhances resilience and readiness.
Twenty years after the world’s deadliest tsunami—what have we learned and are we safer?
Two decades have passed since one of the deadliest natural disasters in recorded history claimed the lives of 228,000 people across 14 countries. For a younger generation, there’s little awareness of the colossal 9.1 magnitude earthquake that struck off the western coast of northern Sumatra, Indonesia, unleashing the deadliest tsunami in recorded history
Colombia’s data-driven approach to creating safer, more resilient communities
Colombia’s latest milestone will help direct national investments and actions to reduce disaster risk and build resilience at the municipal level.
Scientific tools enhance disaster resilience and readiness in Honduras
New technology, training, and scientific information developed in partnership between Pacific Disaster Center and Honduras, with support from U.S. Southern Command, will help national stakeholders better anticipate potential disasters, quickly mobilize resources, and promote risk-informed decision-making that enhances resilience and readiness.
Twenty years after the world’s deadliest tsunami—what have we learned and are we safer?
Two decades have passed since one of the deadliest natural disasters in recorded history claimed the lives of 228,000 people across 14 countries. For a younger generation, there’s little awareness of the colossal 9.1 magnitude earthquake that struck off the western coast of northern Sumatra, Indonesia, unleashing the deadliest tsunami in recorded history
Early Warning for All
PDC’s enduring mission to reach every corner of the globe with lifesaving information
The only U.S. Winner of the lifetime United Nations Award
Winner of the U.N. Sasakawa Award for Disaster Risk Reduction, Pacific Disaster Center is a global leader and pioneer of early warning technologies and risk intelligence tools. Our advanced analytics and risk intelligence products provide decision-makers with the essential insights and information to act early to protect communities from hazards and build more sustainable, resilient communities for a safer world.
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A new, explosive eruption was reported yesterday for Indonesia’s Lewotobi Laki-laki volcano in East Flores, East Nusa Tenggara province, resulting in evacuations and generating an ash plume that reached as high as 8 km above the crater.
According to PDC's Advanced Analytics and automated Event Brief, approximately 22,000 people are located within 10 km of the volcano. Access DisasterAWARE for additional updates on this event, including insights into potential impacts on the population and critical infrastructure, as well as current and forecast ash clouds.
Download our free Disaster Alert app for early warnings and near real-time information—enhanced by AI—for 28 types of natural and man-made hazards around the world!
>>> Available on Google Play and the iOS App Store (Search "Disaster Alert" in the app stores)
Are you a Disaster Manager or Humanitarian Assistance Practitioner?
>>> Access our award-winning, multi-hazard early warning and risk intelligence platform—trusted by disaster managers worldwide!
>>> Learn more at www.pdc.org/disasteraware/
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AHA CENTRE Badan Nasional Penanggulangan Bencana
Ethiopia's Afar region was impacted by a magnitude 5.5 earthquake yesterday. According to PDC's automated Event Brief and advanced analytics, an estimated 94,200 people (20,100 households) were exposed to Moderate or higher levels of shaking intensity. Light shaking was felt as far as Addis Ababa, Ethiopia's capital and largest city.
Since late 2024, increased seismic activity has impacted the southern Afar and northern Oromia regions, displacing tens of thousands of people.
Download our free Disaster Alert app for early warnings and near real-time information—enhanced by AI—for 28 types of natural and man-made hazards around the world!
>>> Available on Google Play and the iOS App Store (Search "Disaster Alert" in the app stores)
Are you a Disaster Manager or Humanitarian Assistance Practitioner?
>>> Access our award-winning, multi-hazard early warning and risk intelligence platform—trusted by disaster managers worldwide!
>>> Learn more at www.pdc.org/disasteraware/
#EarlyWarningforAll #SaferWorld #DisasterAlert #hurricane #volcano #fire #flood #tsunami #earthquake #disaster #hazard #landslide #tornado #winterstorm #storm #wildfire #severestorm
Following recent impacts to northern Madagascar and Mozambique, Tropical Cyclone Jude is now aiming towards southern Madagascar. Landfall is anticipated within the next 2 days.
According to PDC's automated Event Brief and advanced analytics, an estimated 91,300 people may become exposed to damaging winds along the current forecast track. Madagascar has been impacted by several cyclones since December 2024, starting with Tropical Cyclone Chido.
Download our free Disaster Alert app to receive early warnings and updates on tropical cyclones and 27 other types of hazards!
>>> Available on Google Play and the iOS App Store (Search "Disaster Alert" in the app stores)
Are you a Disaster Manager or Humanitarian Assistance Practitioner?
>>> Access our award-winning, multi-hazard early warning and risk intelligence platform—trusted by disaster managers worldwide!
>>> Learn more at www.pdc.org/disasteraware/
#EarlyWarningforAll #SaferWorld #TropicalCyclone #Madagascar #jude #Mozambique #DisasterAlert #DisasterAWARE
BNGRC
Stay safe and stay informed—get alerts on earthquakes and 27 other types of hazards with PDC's free Disaster Alert app. Download now!
Download our free Disaster Alert app for early warnings and near real-time information—enhanced by AI—for 28 types of natural and man-made hazards around the world!
>>> Available on Google Play and the iOS App Store (Search "Disaster Alert" in the app stores)
Are you a Disaster Manager or Humanitarian Assistance Practitioner?
>>> Access our award-winning, multi-hazard early warning and risk intelligence platform—trusted by disaster managers worldwide!
>>> Learn more at www.pdc.org/disasteraware/
#EarlyWarningforAll #SaferWorld #DisasterAlert #hurricane #volcano #fire #flood #tsunami #earthquake #disaster #hazard #landslide #tornado #winterstorm #storm #wildfire #severestorm
Get alerts, stay safe! Access the #1 award-winning, multi-hazard early warning and risk intelligence technology trusted by disaster managers worldwide.
Disaster Alert app (3.5 million downloads, worldwide!)
• Stay alert from anywhere with our FREE Disaster Alert app, powered by DisasterAWARE!
• Available in the Apple App Store and Google Play (Search "Disaster Alert" in the app store.)
DisasterAWARE Pro (20,000+ professional users!)
• Free access for humanitarian assistance and disaster management practitioners.
• Learn more at www.pdc.org/DisasterAWARE
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Don’t let hazards catch you off-guard—stay ahead and stay informed!
Download our free Disaster Alert app today for early warnings and near real-time information—enhanced by AI—for 28 types of natural and man-made hazards around the world!
>>> Available on Google Play and the iOS App Store (Search "Disaster Alert" in the app stores)
Are you a disaster manager or humanitarian assistance practitioner?
>>> Access our award-winning, multi-hazard early warning and risk intelligence platform—trusted by disaster managers worldwide!
>>> Learn more at www.pdc.org/disasteraware/
#EarlyWarningforAll #SaferWorld #DisasterAlert #hurricane #volcano #fire #flood #tsunami #earthquake #disaster #hazard #landslide #tornado #winterstorm #storm #wildfire #severestorm
PDC and Colombia's National Unit for Disaster Risk Management (UNGRD) finalize disaster preparedness analysis and hyper-local risk assessment:
"Municipality-level data will enable Colombia's UNGRD to focus programs within smaller communities more effectively..."
www.pdc.org/colombias-data-driven-approach-to-safer-resilient-communities/
Unidad Nacional para la Gestión del Riesgo de Desastres
U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM)
Embajada de los Estados Unidos Colombia
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www.pdc.org
Colombia's latest milestone will help direct national investments and actions to reduce disaster risk and build resilience at the municipal level.
It was a pleasure to host Texas A&M University Master's degree students at PDC headquarters for a university-to-university exchange and to help educate the next generation of leaders in disaster management best practices in early warning, risk mitigation, preparedness, and disaster response.
Texas A&M University
Download the free Disaster Alert app today to receive early warnings about natural and man-made hazards around the world!
>>> Available on Google Play and the iOS App Store (Search "Disaster Alert" in the app stores)
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PDC returned to Trinidad this week to support the Final Planning Conference for USSOUTHCOM’s Tradewinds '25 Exercise, the Command's largest event focused on regional security, stability, and disaster response. This marks the fourth consecutive year that the Center has supported this Caribbean-centered, multi-domain exercise, which spans the ground, air, sea, and cyber domains. The team is looking forward to returning to Trinidad in April for exercise execution!
PDC enables its partners to more effectively exercise and train as they would in response to real-world events through its custom multi-hazard early warning and decision support platform—DisasterAWARE Exercise—including the world’s largest collection of scientifically verified data, advanced analytics, realistic scenarios, and subject matter expertise.
#tradewinds2025 #SaferWorld #earlywarningforall #disasteraware #disasterpreparedness
Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force
U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM)
U.S. Army South - Sixth Army
ODPMTT
New technology, training, and scientific information developed in partnership between the Pacific Disaster Center and Honduras, with support from U.S. Southern Command, will help national stakeholders better anticipate potential disasters, quickly mobilize resources, and promote risk-informed decision-making that enhances resilience and readiness.
www.pdc.org/scientific-tools-enhance-disaster-readiness-honduras/
COPECO
U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM)
Embajada de Estados Unidos en Tegucigalpa
Scientific tools enhance disaster resilience and readiness in Honduras | Pacific Disaster Center
www.pdc.org
New technology, training, and scientific information developed in partnership between Pacific Disaster Center and Honduras, with support from U.S. Southern Command, will help national stakeholders bet...