He'e Nalu, but never try to surf a tsunami - Pacific Disaster Center (PDC Global)

Volcano - Planchon-Peteroa, Chile

19 minutes ago WARNING
Tropical Cyclone - Cilida

2 hours ago ADVISORY
Tropical Cyclone - Kenanga

2 hours ago INFORMATION
Floods - Southeastern, United States

2 hours ago WARNING
Volcano - Dukono, Indonesia

2 hours ago WATCH
Winter Storm - Western , United States

2 hours ago WARNING
Volcano - Sabancaya, Peru

2 hours ago ADVISORY
Volcano - Aira, Japan

3 hours ago WARNING
Volcano - Kuchinoerabujima, Japan

4 hours ago ADVISORY
Volcano - Nevados de Chillán, Chile

5 hours ago WARNING
Earthquake - 5.4 - Northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge

6 hours ago ADVISORY
Flood - Shelton, WA Region, United States

6 hours ago WARNING
Wildfire - SW of Tamale, Northern - Ghana

7 hours ago ADVISORY
Wildfire - SW of Nasir, Upper Nile - South Sudan

7 hours ago WATCH
Wildfire - W of Aweil, North Bahr-al-Ghazal - South Sudan

7 hours ago WATCH
Wildfire - SW of Rumbek, Lakes - South Sudan

7 hours ago WATCH
Wildfire - SW of Birao, Vakaga - Central African Republic

7 hours ago ADVISORY
Volcano - Ambrym, Vanuatu

1 day ago ADVISORY
Floods - Southwestern, United States

7 hours ago WARNING
Earthquake - 6.2 - Southeast of Easter Island

8 hours ago WATCH
Flood - Carbondale, IL Region, United States

8 hours ago WARNING
Flood - Camden, AR Region, United States

8 hours ago WARNING
Highsurf - Advisory (Hawaiian Islands)

8 hours ago ADVISORY
Highsurf - Warning (Hawaiian Islands)

8 hours ago WARNING
Highwind - Advisory (Hawaiian Islands)

9 hours ago ADVISORY
Ebola virus disease – Democratic Republic of the Congo

2 months ago WATCH
Storms - Aizu, Japan

13 hours ago WARNING
Storms - Singapore

13 hours ago WARNING
Storms - Kelantan and Terengganu, Malaysia

13 hours ago WARNING
Storms - Sabah, Malaysia

13 hours ago WARNING
Floods - Western England

13 hours ago WATCH
Earthquake - 5.4 - South of the Fiji Islands

13 hours ago ADVISORY
High Wind - Northwestern Spain

13 hours ago WARNING
High Wind - Santa Cruz, Bolivia

13 hours ago WARNING
Volcano - Reventador, Ecuador

16 hours ago ADVISORY
Volcano - Krakatau, Indonesia

22 hours ago WARNING
Volcano - Mayon, Philippines

1 day ago WARNING
Volcano - Fuego, Guatemala

1 day ago WARNING
Earthquake - 5.5 - 75km S of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea

1 day ago WATCH
Floods - North Queensland, Australia

1 day ago INFORMATION
Avalanches - Sierra Nevadas, United States

1 day ago WATCH
Winter Storms - Nova Scotia, Canada

1 day ago WARNING
Floods - Fiordland and Westland, New Zealand

1 day ago WATCH
Floods - South Aceh, Indonesia

1 day ago INFORMATION
Floods - Central Kalimantan, Indonesia

1 day ago INFORMATION
Storms - Southeastern Brazil

1 day ago WARNING
Extreme Cold - Germany

1 day ago WATCH
High Wind - British Columbia, Canada

1 day ago WARNING
Wildfires - Central South Africa

1 day ago WATCH
Avalanches - Northern Japan

1 day ago WATCH
Extreme Cold - Northern Pakistan

1 day ago WARNING
High Wind - Costa Rica

1 day ago WARNING
Storms - Antofagasta, Chile

1 day ago WATCH
Drought - Coastal Eastern South Korea

1 day ago WARNING
Wildfires - Gascoyne Inland and Goldfields, Western Australia, Australia

1 day ago WATCH
Storms - Northern, Central, and Southern Mountains, Peru

1 day ago WARNING
Avalanches - Western and Southern Cascades, Washington, United States

1 day ago WATCH
Avalanches - Bridger-Teton National Forest, Wyoming, United States

1 day ago WATCH
Avalanches - Northern Utah, United States

1 day ago WATCH
Avalanches - Central and Western Colorado, United States

1 day ago WATCH
Avalanches - Glacier National Park, Canada

1 day ago WATCH
Avalanches - Banff National Park, Canada

1 day ago WATCH
Avalanches - Jasper National Park, Canada

1 day ago WATCH
Floods - Northeastern Scotland

1 day ago WATCH
Avalanches - Southern Switzerland

1 day ago WATCH
Floods - Cochabamba and La Paz, Bolivia

1 day ago WATCH
Floods - Southern Thailand

1 day ago WATCH
Volcano - Sangay, Ecuador

1 day ago WARNING
Volcano - Veniaminof, United States

1 day ago WATCH
Volcano - Turrialba, Costa Rica

2 days ago WARNING
Volcano - Cleveland, United States

2 days ago WATCH
Volcano - Manam, Papua New Guinea

2 days ago WARNING
Volcano - Soputan, Indonesia

2 days ago WARNING
Volcano - Popocatepetl, Mexico

2 days ago ADVISORY
Volcano - Sheveluch, Russia

3 days ago ADVISORY
Drought - Central Afghanistan

4 days ago WATCH
Volcano - Nevado del Ruiz, Colombia

4 days ago WARNING
Floods - Kisumu, Kenya

5 days ago WARNING
Drought - Somalia, Ethiopia, and Kenya

5 days ago WATCH
Drought - Angola, Namibia, Western Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Botswana

5 days ago WATCH
Drought - Western and Central Madagascar

5 days ago WATCH
Drought - Southern South Africa and Lesotho

5 days ago WARNING
Drought - Haiti/Dominican Republic

5 days ago WARNING
Drought - Honduras and Northwestern Nicaragua

5 days ago WATCH
Drought - Western United States

2 months ago WARNING

What our partners are saying about us...

Willem Rampangilei

Chief, BNPB

As I mentioned when we met recently at BNPB HQ Jakarta, I want to extend my appreciation to you, to your colleagues at PDC, and to USAID/OFDA for your hard work and dedication – and for your tangible results – in building capabilities and capacities for disaster risk reduction in Indonesia, especially in the area of hazard monitoring and early warning.

Daniel B. Whitley

Acting Associate Administrator, Foreign Agricultural Service (2017)

"On behalf of USDA's Foreign Agricultural Services, I would like to express my appreciation and full support of the Pacific Disaster Center (PDC) for its essential contributions...with data and support...we've been able to improve our global agricultural production and disaster assessment analyses, products, and decision outcomes."

Harlan V. Hale

Regional Advisor, USAID/DCHA/OFDA/EAP

"From a disaster management perspective, these agencies [PDC, HOT, PetaBencana.id] have combined their skills, have worked well together, and have created something that is really innovative, useful, and can actually improve both the disaster response by the government and citizen's participation in it as well."

John Andoe

Emergency Management Coordinator, Texas Health and Human Services (2017)

“Keep up the good work. I'm using EMOPS (DisasterAWARE) in Texas to monitor Hurricane Harvey.”

Eric Yarrell

Lieutenant Colonel, United States Air Force, JTF-Bravo (2017)

"JTF-Bravo sincerely appreciated the HADR decision-support information provided by the Pacific Disaster Center during Hurricane Irma response… has been both timely and valuable support of current operations."

Susan Cruz

Director, Office of Civil Defense (2015)

"We are very appreciative of your support to our country."

Augusto Moreno O'Phelan

Director General for Policy and Strategy, Ministry of Defense, Peru (2016)

"Many thanks for your important information about the ongoing outbreak of Zika virus in the Americas."

Paulo Bayly

Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Infrastructure & Transport, Fiji (2016)

"Thank you and your team for so quickly responding to our needs."

- Carolann Albury

Director, Bahamas National Geographic Information Systems (2017)

"…thank you all for the assistance you have rendered on so many occasions to The BNGISC but more importantly to The Bahamas."

Claudia Mateo

President, Republica Domincana Comisión Nacional de Energía

"Thank you for being aware of our situation and for the sending of images for analysis."

William I. Clark

Humanitarian Assistance Division Chief, U.S. SOUTHCOM (2017)

Our success during response efforts is directly related to PDC's contribution. The set of tools offered by your decision support system (DisasterAWARE), the large amount of data, the modeling and assessments, and skill set of your staff are unique. They provide my team with great situational awareness in a timely manner, enabling rapid and informed decision making in critical periods."

Don Price

Disaster Management Advisor, U.S. Forest Service, Myanmar (2017)

"The big floods in Southern China are causing some real problems for Vietnam and Myanmar and DMRS/EMOPS (DisasterAWARE) is the best visualization for this regional flood situation."

Ana Ake

Ministry of Information and Communications, Kingdom of Tonga (2017)

"I was first introduced to EMOPS (DisasterAWARE)...during a HA/DR training in Auckland this year. I've worked with several tools and it is obvious that EMOPS is the only sustainable tool that is available and is openly available."

Dr. Sutopo Purwo Nugroho

Head of Data, Information, and Public Relations, BNPB (2017)

"Thank you very much for your support in Mt Agung eruption. Very useful to us."

Lisa Samson on PDC products during hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria

Assistant Deputy Director, Exercises & Coalition Affairs, U.S. SOUTHCOM (2017)

"[I] wanted to pass along that the reports that PDC is generating are succinct and extremely informative. I've passed along to other colleagues in the HQs staff and other COCOMs to peak their interest. Well done!"

Christopher Vaughan

FEMA National Headquarters Geospatial Information Officer (2015)

"My sincerest thanks to the PDC team during this event. [Tropical Cyclone Dolphin] Your professionalism and dedication to the mission is to be commended. I'm sure we will have plenty to discuss/improve upon in the weeks to follow. Thanks again for all the support. Great job team."

USDA Foreign Agriculture Service officer

USDA (2016)

"Your suggestion that we look at PDC content and capabilities has really paid off. We partnered with them, and are ingesting their global disaster feeds into [Global Agricultural & Disaster Assessment System] GADAS. The addition of a couple of our own applications to quickly delineate impacted areas and extract agricultural acreage and population has proved quite valuable."

Jeremy K. Delancy

Senior Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Social Services & Community Development, Commonwealth of The Bahamas (2016)

"I wanted [PDC] to know that I used DisasterAWARE during Hurricane Joaquin and it performed admirably. Some further training will be needed for us to use it to its full capabilities. One of the persons who was quite impressed is Chief Meteorological Officer, Mr. Arnold King."

Giuseppe Timperio

Research Engineer, Advanced Supply Chain Management & Humanitarian Logistics, National University of Singapore (2016)

"I knew of 'InAWARE' and I am impressed by its capabilities. Information sharing in the humanitarian context is still a big challenge (especially in ASEAN), and the efforts you are putting to close this gap are highly appreciated, and indeed highly useful for the whole humanitarian community."

Kenta Hamasaki

The Consulate General of Japan, Honolulu, HI (2016)

"Aloha Julie. Hello. After the registration [for DisasterAWARE], I started to receive warnings such as Typhoon Meranti. That data contains necessary info and is so graphic that it's easy to know at a glance how the impact is. This is very important for our duties. Thank you again."

Jonathan Colwell

Goespatial Coordinator, DHS-FEMA Region 9 (2016)

"EMOPS (DisasterAWARE) made my day so much easier while monitoring [Tropical Cyclone] AMOS. Data that I thought I'd spend a good part of the morning digging for was available, as were the tools to draw polygons and annotate and meet the requirement."

Matt Lott

Emergency Coordinator of Safety, Security and Emergency Management, Virginia Department of Transportation (2016)

"I work for the Virginia DOT as an emergency planner. I would like to be added to your distribution list for awareness products. I followed work during Hurricane Mathew and would like to avail our organization of your great products."

Jesse Rozelle

Program Manager, Natural Hazards Risk Assessment Program, FEMA (2017)

"Aloha PDC team: I wanted to express my sincere gratitude for all of your support during Hurricanes Harvey and Irma. The modeling and risk assessment support you have provided to FEMA has been incredibly helpful for our response efforts and our emergency management partners. I'm looking forward to a continued partnership."

Brian Abbott

Lieutenant Colonel, Public-Private Cooperation Program Coordinator, U.S. SOUTHCOM (2016)

"As a Public-Private Cooperation (PPC) Program Coordinator, PDC's vision and leadership translates into strategies that enable others to effectively achieve results."

Mr. Eliezer Serrano, Jr.

Lead Data Fusion Manager, U.S. SOUTHCOM Joint Operations Center (2016)

PDC's support in the SOUTHCOM region and its commitment to promote public safety were unfailing during the Rio Olympics. [DisasterAWARE] greatly enhanced our situational awareness and offered an abundance of useful data and safety monitoring information."

Marcus Elten

United Nations OCHA (2016)

"I was impressed with how quickly you guys developed situational awareness products...quite impressed with your team's work."

Dr. Sutopo Purwo Nugroho

Head of Data, Information, and Public Relations for Indonesia's National Disaster Management Agency, BNPB

Paul Ugarte

CONRED Special Advisor to the Executive Secretary of Guatemala

Gayle Outten-Moncour

Bahamas Disaster Recovery Manager and First Assistant Secretary

Edy Manolo Barillas

U.N. OCHA National Disaster Advisor to Guatemala

He’e Nalu, but never try to surf a tsunami

November 23, 2017

He’e Nalu, but never try to surf a tsunami

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