The Pacific Risk Management Ohana (PRiMO) focuses on promoting disaster resilience by preparing communities throughout the region for future disasters. After a week packed full of conference sessions and hui (working group) breakouts, the Pacific Risk Management Ohana...
Coastal populations everywhere are at risk from tsunami waves that can strike quickly with little warning. On February 06, 2013 an 8.0-magnitude undersea earthquake struck roughly 20 miles of the coast of the Santa Cruz group in Temotu Province, Solomon Islands....
The South Pacific island nation plans and prepares for future hazards with technical assistance from PDC. The Kingdom of Tonga is a nation made up of more than 170 islands, at least 50 of them inhabited. The islands are situated at a “convergent boundary,” where the...
Pacific Disaster Center will work with local and regional partners to support disaster risk reduction for more than 100,000 Western Pacific islanders in FSM. On January 23, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Pacific Islands Coastal Storms...
With funding from USAID, PDC developed a custom DisasterAWARE decision support platform for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. ASEAN, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, formally launched its state-of-the-art Disaster Monitoring and Response System...
