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

Floods - Oman and Southeastern Yemen

1 hour ago INFORMATION
Floods - Ica, Peru

1 hour ago INFORMATION
Floods - La Guajira, Colombia

1 hour ago INFORMATION
Floods - Sonora, Mexico

1 hour ago INFORMATION
Floods - El Salvador

1 hour ago WATCH
High Wind - Santa Cruz, Bolivia

1 hour ago WARNING
Storms - Guyana

1 hour ago WARNING
Volcano - Sabancaya, Peru

1 hour ago WARNING
Floods - Southern France

1 day ago INFORMATION
Earthquake - 5.8 - 156km E of Tadine, New Caledonia

18 hours ago WATCH
Volcano - Ebeko, Russia

2 hours ago ADVISORY
Volcano - Dukono, Indonesia

2 hours ago WATCH
Earthquake - 5.6 - 164km ESE of Tadine, New Caledonia

15 hours ago WATCH
Tsunami (AK/BC/US West Coast) - 40 miles SW of Barter I., Alaska - 4.2

3 hours ago INFORMATION
Floods - Western England

3 hours ago WARNING
Wildfires - Switzerland

3 hours ago WATCH
Storms - Italy

3 hours ago WATCH
Earthquake - 5.0 - 163km S of Severo-Kurilsk, Russia

3 hours ago ADVISORY
Volcano - Krakatau, Indonesia

4 hours ago WARNING
Tropical Storm - Tara

5 hours ago WARNING
Volcano - Kadovar, Papua New Guinea

4 hours ago WATCH
Highsurf - Advisory (Hawaiian Islands)

5 hours ago ADVISORY
Earthquake - 5.4 - Southeast of Easter Island

6 hours ago ADVISORY
Volcano - Reventador, Ecuador

6 hours ago ADVISORY
Tsunami (AK/BC/US West Coast) - 35 miles N of Valdez, Alaska - 4.3

8 hours ago INFORMATION
Earthquake - 5.4 - 113km ENE of Yining Xian, China

17 hours ago ADVISORY
Earthquake - 5.0 - 33km NNW of Liloy, Philippines

16 hours ago ADVISORY
Earthquake - 5.3 - Central Mid-Atlantic Ridge

11 hours ago ADVISORY
Earthquake - 5.2 - 155km ESE of Tadine, New Caledonia

12 hours ago ADVISORY
Earthquake - 5.1 - 169km ESE of Tadine, New Caledonia

14 hours ago ADVISORY
Earthquake - 5.0 - 176km ESE of Tadine, New Caledonia

15 hours ago ADVISORY
Earthquake - 5.1 - 167km ESE of Tadine, New Caledonia

15 hours ago ADVISORY
Wildfire - W of Sinop, Mato Grosso - Brazil

16 hours ago INFORMATION
Wildfire - W of Grants Pass, Oregon - United States

16 hours ago INFORMATION
Wildfire - W of Burketown, Queensland - Australia

16 hours ago INFORMATION
Wildfire - SW of Derby, Western Australia - Australia

16 hours ago INFORMATION
Earthquake - 5.0 - 164km E of Tadine, New Caledonia

16 hours ago ADVISORY
Earthquake - 5.1 - 191km E of Tadine, New Caledonia

16 hours ago ADVISORY
Earthquake - 5.1 - 154km ESE of Tadine, New Caledonia

16 hours ago ADVISORY
Earthquake - 6.4 - 167km E of Tadine, New Caledonia

18 hours ago WATCH
Earthquake - 5.0 - 184km ESE of Tadine, New Caledonia

17 hours ago ADVISORY
Earthquake - 5.2 - 165km E of Tadine, New Caledonia

18 hours ago ADVISORY
Earthquake - 5.1 - 165km ESE of Tadine, New Caledonia

18 hours ago ADVISORY
Earthquake - 5.4 - 166km E of Tadine, New Caledonia

18 hours ago ADVISORY
Earthquake - 6.3 - 170km ESE of Tadine, New Caledonia

19 hours ago WATCH
Tsunami (AK/BC/US West Coast) - in the Loyalty Islands region - 6.8

18 hours ago INFORMATION
Tsunami (Hawaiian Islands) - Southeast Of Loyalty Islands - 6.8

18 hours ago INFORMATION
Tsunami (Pacific Ocean) - Southeast Of Loyalty Islands - 6.8

18 hours ago INFORMATION
Volcano - Kerinci, Indonesia

18 hours ago WARNING
Tsunami (Hawaiian Islands) - Southeast Of Loyalty Islands - 6.5

19 hours ago INFORMATION
Tsunami (AK/BC/US West Coast) - in the Loyalty Islands region - 6.5

19 hours ago INFORMATION
Tsunami (Pacific Ocean) - Southeast Of Loyalty Islands - 6.5

19 hours ago INFORMATION
Volcano - Ibu, Indonesia

19 hours ago WATCH
Volcano - Sangeang Api, Indonesia

20 hours ago WARNING
Earthquake - 5.2 - 139km ESE of Kimbe, Papua New Guinea

23 hours ago ADVISORY
Earthquake - 5.4 - 134km ESE of Kimbe, Papua New Guinea

23 hours ago ADVISORY
Volcano - Fuego, Guatemala

23 hours ago WARNING
Volcano - Turrialba, Costa Rica

1 day ago WARNING
Flood - Aceh Singkil and West Aceh, Indonesia

1 day ago INFORMATION
Flood - West Sumatra, Indonesia

1 day ago INFORMATION
Floods - North Sumatra, Indonesia

1 day ago INFORMATION
Floods - Western Penisular Malaysia

1 day ago INFORMATION
Floods - Wales

1 day ago INFORMATION
Floods - Central Texas, United States

1 day ago WATCH
High Wind - Eastern Canada

1 day ago WARNING
Storms - Northern Japan

1 day ago WATCH
Floods - Honduras

1 day ago WATCH
Floods - Mid-Atlantic United States

1 day ago WARNING
Floods - Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Iowa, United States

1 day ago WARNING
Floods - Southwestern Norway

1 day ago WATCH
Storms - Costa Rica

1 day ago WARNING
Storms - Mexico

1 day ago WARNING
Storms - Southeastern Brazil

1 day ago WARNING
Storms - Malaysia

1 day ago WARNING
Storms - Singapore

1 day ago WARNING
Storms - Brunei Darussalam

1 day ago WARNING
Storms - Vietnam

1 day ago WARNING
Earthquake - 5.6 - 121km NE of Yelizovo, Russia

1 day ago WATCH
Volcano - Pacaya, Guatemala

1 day ago WARNING
Volcano - St. Helens, United States

1 day ago ADVISORY
Volcano - Nevados de Chillán, Chile

2 days ago ADVISORY
Volcano - Santa Maria, Guatemala

3 days ago WARNING
Volcano - Popocatepetl, Mexico

3 days ago ADVISORY
Landslides - Bududa, Uganda

3 days ago INFORMATION
Volcano - Sangay, Ecuador

3 days ago ADVISORY
Wildfire - N of San Bernardino, California - United States

3 days ago WARNING
Volcano - Semeru, Indonesia

4 days ago WARNING
Volcano - Manam, Papua New Guinea

4 days ago WARNING
Extreme Cold - Central Asia

5 days ago WARNING
Winter Storms - Northeast Afghanistan/Tajikistan/Kyrgyzstan

6 days ago WARNING
Ebola virus disease – Democratic Republic of the Congo

1 month ago ADVISORY
Floods - Northern Ghana

6 days ago WARNING
Floods - Nigeria

6 days ago WARNING
Drought - Haiti/Dominican Republic

6 days ago WARNING
Drought - Honduras, Eastern El Salvador, and Western Nicaragua

6 days ago WATCH
Drought - Northwestern Guatemala

6 days ago WATCH
Drought - Western United States

1 week ago WARNING
Drought - Eastern Australia

1 week 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

Have questions, or want to partner on an assessment?

Connect with us

Have a question or need assistance? Please complete the form below for a fast response.