Training and Exercises
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Flood - Natchez, MS--LA Region, United States
14 minutes ago WARNING
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Earthquake - 5.6 - 15 km NW of Melipilla, Chile
7 hours ago WATCH
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Volcano - Nevado del Ruiz, Colombia
37 minutes ago WARNING
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Volcano - Sangay, Ecuador
1 hour ago ADVISORY
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Volcano - Popocatepetl, Mexico
1 hour ago WARNING
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Volcano - Sabancaya, Peru
1 hour ago ADVISORY
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Severe Weather - Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
1 hour ago ADVISORY
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Flood - Phoenix--Mesa, AZ Region, United States
2 hours ago WARNING
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Volcano - Dukono, Indonesia
2 hours ago WATCH
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Floods - Southwest Cameroon
2 hours ago INFORMATION
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Storms - Peru
2 hours ago WARNING
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Volcano - Ibu, Indonesia
2 hours ago WATCH
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Severe Weather - Binjai City, North Sumatra, Indonesia
2 hours ago INFORMATION
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Air Quality - Williams Lake, British Columbia, Canada
2 hours ago ADVISORY
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Winter Storm - Southwestern, United States
3 hours ago WARNING
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Volcano - Semeru, Indonesia
3 hours ago WARNING
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Severe Weather - Serang Regency, West Java Province, Indonesia
3 hours ago INFORMATION
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Volcano - Lewotolo, Indonesia
3 hours ago WATCH
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Wildfire - N of Salavan, Saravan, Laos
3 hours ago INFORMATION
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Earthquake - 5.0 - northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge
3 hours ago ADVISORY
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Earthquake - 5.0 - northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge
4 hours ago ADVISORY
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Volcano - Fuego, Guatemala
4 hours ago WARNING
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Winter Storm - Western, United States
4 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - Amazon Basin, South America
5 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - S of Tecuala, Nayarit, Mexico
5 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - Okavango Basin, Angola
5 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico
5 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - NW of Canavieiras, Bahia, Brazil
5 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - Parnaiba Basin, NE of Parnaiba River, Brazil
5 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - Colorado Basin, Salado and Colorado Rivers, Argentina
5 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - SW of Remanso, Northeast Brazil
5 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - E of McMinns Lagoon, Northern Territory, Australia
5 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - E of McMinns Lagoon, Northern Territory, Australia
5 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - Bengawan Solo Basin, Indonesia
5 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - NE of Tennant Creek, Northern Territory, Australia
5 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - Hari Basin, Indonesia
5 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - W of Adelaide River, Northern Territory and Western Australia, Australia
5 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - Mekong Basin, Cambodia and Vietnam
5 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - Aral Sea Basin, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan
5 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - SE of Cauvery Basin, Sri Lanka
5 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - Amur Basin, W of Ussuri River, China and Russia
5 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - Abhe Bad Basin, Eastern Africa
5 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - Irrawaddy Basin, Myanmar
5 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - Shatt Al Arab Basin, Southern Asia and Western Asia
5 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - Shatt Al Arab Basin, Western Asia
5 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - Ural Basin, Russia and Kazakhstan
5 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - N of Turkmenbasy, Balkan, Turkmenistan
5 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - Rukwa Basin, S of Rungwa River, Tanzania and Zambia
5 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - Ogooue Basin, Middle Africa
5 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - Jubba Basin, Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia
5 hours ago WARNING
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Volcano - Suwanosejima, Japan
5 hours ago ADVISORY
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Flood - Limpopo Basin, Southern Africa and Eastern Africa
5 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - S of Tamale, Northern, Ghana
5 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - Rosso, Trarza, Mauritania
5 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - Abhe Bad Basin, Eastern Africa
5 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - Benin City, Bayelsa, Delta and Edo, Nigeria
5 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - Cuanza Basin, Angola
5 hours ago WARNING
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Volcano - Santa Maria, Guatemala
5 hours ago WARNING
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Severe Weather - Marathon, Ontario, Canada
5 hours ago ADVISORY
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Snowfall - Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada
5 hours ago WARNING
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Winter Storm - Northern Rockies and Plains, United States
5 hours ago WARNING
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Freezing Rain - Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
5 hours ago WARNING
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Volcano - Reventador, Ecuador
5 hours ago ADVISORY
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Flood - San Diego, CA Region, United States
6 hours ago WARNING
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Earthquake - 6.5 - 40 km SSE of Jurm, Afghanistan
8 hours ago WARNING
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Volcano - San Miguel, El Salvador
8 hours ago ADVISORY
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Volcano - Villarrica, Chile
8 hours ago ADVISORY
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Flood - Huai He Basin, N of Huai He River, China
1 day ago WARNING
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Storms - Northern Mexico
8 hours ago WARNING
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Floods - Central Bolivia
8 hours ago WARNING
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Severe Weather - Bolivia
8 hours ago INFORMATION
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Air Quality - Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
8 hours ago ADVISORY
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Flood - Beardstown, IL Region, United States
9 hours ago WARNING
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Storms - Brazil
8 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - Hilmar-Irwin, CA Region, United States
9 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - Camden, AR Region, United States
9 hours ago WARNING
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Volcano - Aira, Japan
9 hours ago WARNING
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Severe Weather - SE of Steinbach, Manitoba, Canada
9 hours ago ADVISORY
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Storms - India
9 hours ago WARNING
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Winter Storm - Alaska, United States
9 hours ago WARNING
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Wildfire - NW of Muang Phônsavan, Xiangkhoang, Laos
9 hours ago INFORMATION
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Wildfire - N of Salavan, Saravan, Laos
9 hours ago INFORMATION
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Wildfire - SW of Loikaw, Kayah State, Myanmar
9 hours ago INFORMATION
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Wildfire - E of Lamam, Xekong, Laos
9 hours ago INFORMATION
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Wildfire - NE of Kaihua, Yunnan, China
9 hours ago INFORMATION
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Landslides - Southern Malawi
14 hours ago INFORMATION
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Volcano - Sheveluch, Russia
10 hours ago ADVISORY
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Floods - Northern Ceará, Brazil
14 hours ago INFORMATION
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Landslides - Northern Ceará, Brazil
14 hours ago INFORMATION
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Severe Weather - Chiang Mai Province, Northern Thailand
10 hours ago INFORMATION
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Earthquake - 5.2 - 55 km SSW of Hualien City, Taiwan
23 hours ago ADVISORY
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Flood - Zambezi Basin, Middle Africa, Southern Africa and Eastern Africa
1 day ago WARNING
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Winter Storm - Upper Midwestern, United States
14 hours ago WARNING
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Wildfire - NW of Sainyabuli, Xaignabouri, Laos
15 hours ago INFORMATION
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Flood - N of Makhachkala, Dagestan, Russia
18 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - E of Daan, Jilin, China
18 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - Araguari Basin, NW of Araguari River, Brazil and French Guiana
18 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - NE of Singkawang, Kalimantan Barat, Indonesia
18 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - Joinville, Santa Catarina, Brazil
18 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - S of Malacca, Melaka, Malaysia
18 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - SW of Jayapura, Papua, Indonesia
18 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - NW of Kerema, Gulf, Papua New Guinea
18 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - Aral Sea Basin, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan
18 hours ago WARNING
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Floods - Northwestern England
19 hours ago WARNING
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Floods - Western Isles, Scotland, United Kingdom
20 hours ago WARNING
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Storms - Kenya
20 hours ago WARNING
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Volcano - Ebeko, Russia
21 hours ago ADVISORY
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Wildfire - N of Muang Phônsavan, Xiangkhoang, Laos
21 hours ago INFORMATION
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Wildfire - E of Nyaunglebin, Pegu, Myanmar
21 hours ago INFORMATION
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Earthquake - 5.5 - 10 km SE of Quepos, Costa Rica
23 hours ago WATCH
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Drinking Water - E of Yorkton, Saskatchewan, Canada
1 day ago ADVISORY
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Flood - Congo Basin, Middle Africa and Eastern Africa
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - N of Pedro Luro, Buenos Aires, Argentina
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - N of Merauke, Papua, Indonesia
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - Paraiso, Tabasco, Mexico
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - Tocantins Basin, Tocantins and Araguaia Rivers, Brazil
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - Cameta, Pará, Brazil
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - Sao Luis, Maranhão and Pará, Brazil
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - Parana Basin, South America
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - NE of Ouyen, New South Wales and Victoria, Australia
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - SE of Mahakam Basin, Indonesia
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - NW of Windorah, Northern Territory and Queensland, Australia
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - SW of Vanimo, Sandaun, Papua New Guinea
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - Kapuas Basin, Brunei, Indonesia and Malaysia
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - Aral Sea Basin, Central Asia
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - Popondetta, Oro, Papua New Guinea
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - W of Pannawonica, Western Australia, Australia
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - NE of Kotabumi, Lampung and Sumatera Selatan, Indonesia
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - W of Karumba, Northern Territory and Queensland, Australia
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - Indus Basin, India and Pakistan
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - Yancheng, East China
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - SE of Karachi, Sind, Pakistan
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - Hai He Basin, Ziya, Daqing He and Wei Rivers, China
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - Brahmaputra Basin, Eastern Asia and Southern Asia
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - Pakchan Basin, S of Pakchan River, Myanmar and Thailand
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - SE of Aksu, Xinjiang Uygur, China
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - Machilipatnam, Andhra Pradesh, Puducherry and Telangana, India
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - Qiantang Jiang Basin, China and Taiwan
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - Chao Phraya Basin, Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - Orange Basin, Namibia
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - NW of Karachi, Baluchistan and Sind, Pakistan
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - Chennai, Andhra Pradesh, Puducherry and Tamil Nadu, India
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - E of Shieli, Qyzylorda, Kazakhstan
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - Irrawaddy Basin, Bangladesh and Myanmar
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - Ganges Basin, India and Bangladesh
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - Shatt Al Arab Basin, Iran and Iraq
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - Chad Basin, Middle Africa and Western Africa
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - E of Szekszard, Tolna, Hungary
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - Shatt Al Arab Basin, Saudi Arabia
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - NE of Tuban Basin, Yemen
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - Hingol Basin, NE of Hingol River, Iran and Pakistan
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - Danube Basin, Eastern Europe and Southern Europe
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - Shatt Al Arab Basin, Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - Volga Basin, Russia, Kazakhstan and Caspian Sea
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - S of Tillaberi, Tillabéry, Niger
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - Nile Basin, Eastern Africa, Middle Africa and Northern Africa
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - Okavango Basin, Middle Africa, Southern Africa and Eastern Africa
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - Conakry, Conakry, Guinea
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - Niger Basin, Nigeria
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - N of Lamu, Lamu, Kenya
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - Tsiribihina Basin, Madagascar
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - Incomati Basin, Mozambique, Swaziland and South Africa
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - Nile Basin, Egypt
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - SW of Quelimane, Zambezia, Mozambique
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - NE of Adigrat, Tigray, Ethiopia
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - Congo Basin, Tanzania
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - Pungwe Basin, Mozambique and Zimbabwe
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - Ruvuma Basin, Mozambique, Malawi and Tanzania
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - Nile Basin, SW of Atbara River, Eritrea and Sudan
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - Orange Basin, Southern Africa
1 day ago WARNING
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Earthquake - 6.8 - 8 km NNW of Baláo, Ecuador
3 days ago WARNING
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Drought - South Korea
1 day ago WARNING
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Avalanches - Mammoth, California
1 day ago WARNING
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Storms - Eastern Malaysia
1 day ago WARNING
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Storms - Peninsular Malaysia
1 day ago WARNING
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Extreme Heat - Vietnam
1 day ago WARNING
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Volcano - Cotopaxi, Ecuador
1 day ago WARNING
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Volcano - Karangetang, Indonesia
3 days ago WARNING
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Volcano - Krakatau, Indonesia
3 days ago WARNING
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Volcano - Merapi, Indonesia
4 days ago WARNING
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Drought - High Plains United States
5 days ago WARNING
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Heavy Snow - Central Asia
5 days ago WARNING
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Extreme Heat - Southwestern Africa
5 days ago WARNING
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Drought - Uruguay
5 days ago WARNING
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Health - W of Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan, Canada
5 days ago ADVISORY
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Drought - Southwestern United States
6 days ago WARNING
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Drought - Northwestern United States
6 days ago WARNING
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Drought - Tuvalu
6 days ago WARNING
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Drought - Djibouti
1 week ago WARNING
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Cholera - Haiti
3 months ago WARNING
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Marburg Virus Disease - Equatorial Guinea
1 month ago WARNING
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Cholera - Mozambique
3 weeks ago WARNING
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Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) - Africa
11 months ago WARNING
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Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) - Middle East
11 months ago WARNING
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Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) - North America
11 months ago WARNING
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Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) - Asia Pacific
11 months ago WARNING
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Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) - Latin America/Caribbean
11 months ago WARNING
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Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) - Europe
11 months ago WARNING
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Ebola Virus - Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo
6 months ago WARNING
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Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) - Hawaii
11 months ago WARNING
DisasterAWARE® Training and Preparedness Exercises
Using our extensive hazard data and unique DisasterAWARE platform, we can help you simulate realistic hazard scenarios to help gain a deeper understanding of hazard impacts on communities. We also can assist with exercising preparedness plans in advance of real-world events. Our exercise program can help test complex networks of organizations and response activities—making sure stakeholders respond effectively under high-pressure and ever-changing circumstances. Our experts can support any type of exercise and hazard scenario. We also provide online training and instructor-led training on our DisasterAWARE platform.
Your DisasterAWARE training starts here
Watch our self-paced DisasterAWARE training videos to master the basics or request an instructor-led DisasterAWARE training on-site, at your location or ours. We can help you accomplish nearly any training objective.
Disaster Preparedness Exercises
Exercise Options
Exercises help decision makers identify as much about what goes right with disaster preparedness plans as what goes wrong. We’ve helped organizations around the world design and conduct exercises and incorporate lessons learned into planning and preparedness activities.
Scenario-based Training
- Often focused on policy or strategic issues
- Smaller scope, less complex
Tabletop Exercises
- Provides facilitated analysis of an emergency situation
- Examines policies, procedures, and operations to validate and refine plans as needed.
- Informal, stress-free environment
Functional Exercises
- Fully simulated exercise
- Realistic event, testing response capabilities in time-pressured environment
- Involves multiple functions, agencies, and organizations
Full-scale Exercises
- Tests regional, national, subnational disaster management systems
- Simulates real event as closely as possible.
- Mobilizes emergency personnel and victims (actors), equipment, and resources
Benefits of our exercise
support program
- Leverage the best information to solve problems and make life-saving decisions using DisasterAWARE
- Accurately simulate real-world hazards and impacts based on DisasterAWARE historical hazard data
- Identify planning weaknesses and time-saving measures
- Reveal gaps in resources and information
- Improve organizational coordination and communications
- Clarify roles and responsibilities
- Enhance individual and team performance
Recent Training Events and Exercises
PDC supported the 12th annual Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HA/DR) Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT) Course at the request of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). PDC hosted more than 30 participants at its Maui headquarters for hands-on DisasterAWARE training, 02–03 March.
As part of a disaster response and medical capabilities Subject Matter Expert Exchange (SMEE) in Thimphu, Bhutan, from 12–14 November, PDC conducted a table-top exercise simulating a M5.5 earthquake in the southeast of the country with data it gathered on Bhutan. The Bhutan Department of Disaster Management used the exercise to test its new incident command system standard operating procedure.
PDC traveled to Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, to facilitate the Field Training Exercise for the Pacific Endeavor Multinational Communications Interoperability Program (MCIP) 2019 on 06-16 August. DisasterAWARE was used to reach out across the 19 participating countries with data for a three-day scenario.
The 2019 ADMM–Plus Exercise was the most robust evaluation of civil-military HA/DR procedures in the history of ADMM–Plus. The tsunami scenario—modeled by PDC—involved more than twenty countries and organizations participating from their home locations, collaborating digitally using PDC's DisasterAWARE from July 30 to August 1.
The Hawaii National Guard received a full day of training from PDC that merged DisasterAWARE user training with selected modules from PDC's Hazard Resiliency Network ("R-NET") course on 04 May, 2019. Participants were given tools and knowledge regarding all phases of the disaster management cycle.
PDC delivered a series of training sessions at the ASEAN Coordination Centre for Humanitarian Assistance (AHA Centre) in Jakarta to support operational use of the DMRS system, powered by DisasterAWARE, February 25–27, 2019. Training included 16 operational staff from the AHA Centre, who demonstrated their DMRS-user skills in a series of disaster-related exercises.
2020 – 2021 EXERCISE SUPPORT DURING COVID-19
PDC continues to support training and exercises throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Most activities have been transitioned to a virtual platform to ensure the health and safety of all participants.
