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

Earthquake - 6.1 - 17km N of Golfito, Costa Rica

1 hour ago WATCH
Volcano - Sabancaya, Peru

29 minutes ago WARNING
Flood - Advisory (Hawaiian Islands)

42 minutes ago ADVISORY
Earthquake - 6.5 - 109km NNW of Kampungbajo, Indonesia

7 hours ago WATCH
Flood - Advisory (Hawaiian Islands)

1 hour ago ADVISORY
Volcano - Krakatau, Indonesia

1 hour ago WARNING
Earthquake - 5.6 - 248km SE of Iwo Jima, Japan

2 hours ago WATCH
Earthquake - 5.0 - 55km SE of Shihezi, China

1 hour ago ADVISORY
Volcano - Dukono, Indonesia

2 hours ago WATCH
Earthquake - 5.0 - 255km ESE of Iwo Jima, Japan

2 hours ago ADVISORY
Typhoon - Soulik

3 hours ago WARNING
Tropical Depression - Twentythree

3 hours ago WATCH
Volcano - Ruiz, Nevado del

3 hours ago WARNING
Tropical Storm - Ernesto

4 hours ago INFORMATION
Hurricane - Lane

4 hours ago ADVISORY
Earthquake - 5.1 - 81km N of Isangel, Vanuatu

5 hours ago ADVISORY
Storms - Trinidad and Tobago

7 hours ago WATCH
Floods - Saint Lucia

7 hours ago WATCH
Storms - Victoria, Australia

7 hours ago WARNING
Storms - India

7 hours ago WARNING
Floods - Jammu and Kashmir, India

7 hours ago WARNING
Floods - Eastern Venezuela

7 hours ago WARNING
Storms - Guyana

7 hours ago WARNING
Earthquake - 6.3 - 250km SE of Iwo Jima, Japan

7 hours ago WATCH
Floods - Putumayo, Colombia

7 hours ago WARNING
Floods - Kerala, India

7 hours ago WARNING
Storms - Vietnam

7 hours ago WARNING
Floods - Northern Japan

7 hours ago WARNING
Flood - Bago, Myanmar

7 hours ago WATCH
Storms - Thailand

7 hours ago WARNING
Earthquake - 5.8 - 259km SE of Iwo Jima, Japan

7 hours ago WATCH
Earthquake - 5.3 - 3km ESE of Palata, Italy

7 hours ago ADVISORY
Storms - Western and Central Europe

7 hours ago WATCH
Extreme Heat - Western South Korea

8 hours ago WARNING
Floods - Huajuapan de León, Mexico

8 hours ago INFORMATION
Earthquake - 5.7 - West of Macquarie Island

8 hours ago WATCH
Earthquake - 5.1 - 157km W of Lambasa, Fiji

8 hours ago ADVISORY
Earthquake - 5.2 - 60km S of Tanaga Volcano, Alaska

8 hours ago ADVISORY
Wildfires - Northeastern Ontario, Canada

8 hours ago WARNING
Extreme Cold - Southern Highlands, Peru

8 hours ago WARNING
Storms - Eastern Peru

8 hours ago WARNING
Wildfires - Switzerland

8 hours ago WATCH
Volcano - Popocatepetl, Mexico

9 hours ago ADVISORY
Earthquake - 5.1 - 150km SSW of Taron, Papua New Guinea

12 hours ago ADVISORY
Volcano - Aira, Japan

14 hours ago WARNING
Volcano - Santa Maria, Guatemala

18 hours ago WARNING
Tsunami (AK/BC/US West Coast) - 140 miles SE of Amchitka, Alaska - 5.5

20 hours ago INFORMATION
Wildfire - NW of Kodinskiy, Krasnoyarsk - Russia

21 hours ago ADVISORY
Wildfire - N of Dilolo, Katanga - Congo (Kinshasa)

21 hours ago INFORMATION
Wildfire - NE of Kamina, Katanga - Congo (Kinshasa)

21 hours ago ADVISORY
Wildfire - N of Wenatchee, Washington - United States

21 hours ago WARNING
Wildfire - SW of Kamina, Katanga - Congo (Kinshasa)

21 hours ago ADVISORY
Wildfire - SW of Burns Lake, British Columbia - Canada

21 hours ago WATCH
Wildfire - Shasta County (Carr), California - United States

21 hours ago WARNING
Wildfire - SE of Burns Lake, British Columbia - Canada

21 hours ago WATCH
Wildfire - SW of Kambove, Katanga - Congo (Kinshasa)

21 hours ago ADVISORY
Wildfire - SE of Ukiah, California - United States

21 hours ago WARNING
Wildfire - NE of Kawambwa, Luapula - Zambia

21 hours ago INFORMATION
Wildfire - E of Mt. Shasta, California - United States

21 hours ago INFORMATION
Wildfire - NE of Klamath Falls, Oregon - United States

21 hours ago INFORMATION
Wildfire - S of Katherine, Northern Territory - Australia

21 hours ago INFORMATION
Wildfire - N of Kodinskiy, Krasnoyarsk - Russia

21 hours ago INFORMATION
Wildfire - W of Kaniama, Katanga - Congo (Kinshasa)

21 hours ago INFORMATION
Wildfire - S of Saurimo, Lunda Sul - Angola

21 hours ago ADVISORY
Volcano - Agung, Indonesia

21 hours ago WATCH
Tropical Storm - Bebinca

22 hours ago WARNING
Floods - Madhya Pradesh, India

1 day ago INFORMATION
Storms - Singapore

1 day ago WARNING
Volcano - Ebeko, Russia

1 day ago ADVISORY
Volcano - Fuego, Guatemala

1 day ago WARNING
Drought - Western Senegal

2 days ago WATCH
Drought - Central Ethiopia

2 days ago WATCH
Drought - Western Uganda

2 days ago WATCH
Floods - Central and Eastern Sudan

2 days ago WARNING
Floods - Western Sudan/ Eastern Chad

2 days ago WARNING
Floods - Mali/Burkina Faso/Western Niger

2 days ago WARNING
Drought - Southern Honduras/ Eastern El Salvador/Western Nicaragua

2 days ago WARNING
Drought - Central Guatemala

2 days ago WARNING
Drought - Haiti/Dominican Republic

2 days ago WARNING
Volcano - Sangay, Ecuador

2 days ago ADVISORY
Drought - Eastern Kazakhstan

2 days ago WATCH
Wildfire - SE of Natara, Chukot - Russia

2 days ago WATCH
Wildfire - SW of Ust Kuyga, Chukot - Russia

2 days ago INFORMATION
Ebola virus disease – Democratic Republic of the Congo

1 week ago INFORMATION
Drought - New South Wales, Australia

1 week ago WARNING
Drought - Western and Southern United States

2 weeks ago WARNING
Drought - Mauritania

3 weeks ago WARNING
Volcano - Kilauea, United States

1 month ago WARNING
Drought - East Java, Central Java and Yogyakarta, Indonesia

1 month ago WARNING
Ituango Dam Failure - Hidroituango, Colombia

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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