Training and Exercises
Disaster preparedness saves lives and money
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Flood - Pocatello, ID Region, United States
14 minutes ago WARNING
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Thunderstorm - SE of Swift Current, Saskatchewan, Canada
37 minutes ago WARNING
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Wildfire - NW of Mystic Island, New Jersey, United States
56 minutes ago INFORMATION
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Wildfire - SW of Nuevo Casas Grandes, Chihuahua, Mexico
56 minutes ago INFORMATION
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Wildfire - W of Fort Chipewyan Airport, Alberta, Canada
56 minutes ago INFORMATION
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Wildfire - NW of Wood Buffalo, Alberta, Canada
56 minutes ago INFORMATION
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Wildfire - E of Wood Buffalo, Alberta, Canada
56 minutes ago INFORMATION
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Wildfire - SW of Fort Smith, Alberta, Canada
56 minutes ago INFORMATION
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Wildfire - W of Peace River Airport, British Columbia, Canada
56 minutes ago INFORMATION
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Wildfire - SW of Fort Providence Airport, Northwest Territories, Canada
56 minutes ago INFORMATION
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Wildfire - S of Hornepayne, Ontario, Canada
56 minutes ago INFORMATION
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Wildfire - E of Buffalo Narrows Airport, Saskatchewan, Canada
56 minutes ago INFORMATION
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Wildfire - , S of Côte, Nord, Quebec, Canada
56 minutes ago ADVISORY
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Wildfire - S of Canada, Northwest Territories, Canada
56 minutes ago INFORMATION
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Wildfire - NW of Wood Buffalo, Alberta, Canada
56 minutes ago INFORMATION
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Wildfire - SW of Shelburne, Nova Scotia, Canada
56 minutes ago INFORMATION
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Wildfire - Pass Fire, New Mexico, United States
56 minutes ago INFORMATION
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Wildfire - W of Buffalo Narrows Airport, Saskatchewan, Canada
56 minutes ago INFORMATION
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Wildfire - E of Fort Liard Airport, Northwest Territories, Canada
56 minutes ago INFORMATION
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Wildfire - NW of Wood Buffalo, Alberta, Canada
56 minutes ago INFORMATION
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Wildfire - S of Jean Marie River Airport, Northwest Territories, Canada
56 minutes ago INFORMATION
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Wildfire - N of Fort Chipewyan Airport, Alberta, Canada
56 minutes ago ADVISORY
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Wildfire - W of Fort Chipewyan Airport, Alberta, Canada
56 minutes ago INFORMATION
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Highwind - Advisory (Hawaiian Islands)
57 minutes ago ADVISORY
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Floods - Somalia
1 hour ago INFORMATION
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Thunderstorm - Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada
1 hour ago WATCH
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Flood - Tahoka, TX Region, United States
1 hour ago WARNING
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Flood - Nile Basin, Eastern Africa, Middle Africa and Northern Africa
22 hours ago WARNING
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Tropical Storm - Mawar
4 hours ago WARNING
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Air Quality - La Ronge, Saskatchewan, Canada
1 hour ago ADVISORY
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Flood - Battle Mountain, NV Region, United States
2 hours ago WARNING
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Volcano - Sabancaya, Peru
2 hours ago WARNING
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Volcano - Popocatepetl, Mexico
2 hours ago WARNING
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Wildfire - Fort Chipewyan, Alberta, Canada
2 hours ago ADVISORY
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Severe Weather - North Battleford, Saskatchewan, Canada
3 hours ago ADVISORY
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Volcano - Santa Maria, Guatemala
3 hours ago WARNING
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Air Quality - Toronto, Ontario, Canada
3 hours ago ADVISORY
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Air Quality - Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
4 hours ago ADVISORY
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Air Quality - Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada
4 hours ago ADVISORY
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Wildfire - N of Camp Ridgeway, Queensland, Australia
8 hours ago INFORMATION
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Extreme Heat - Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
9 hours ago WARNING
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Air Quality - Kugluktuk, Nunavut, Canada
9 hours ago ADVISORY
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Flood - Nabire, Papua and Papua Barat, Indonesia
11 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - SE of Wewak, East Sepik, Papua New Guinea
11 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - E of Nasir, Upper Nile, South Sudan
11 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - S of Nabire, Papua, Indonesia
11 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - Dnieper Basin, Ukraine
11 hours ago WARNING
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Volcano - Semeru, Indonesia
11 hours ago WARNING
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Air Quality - Sept-Iles, Québec, Canada
12 hours ago ADVISORY
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Volcano - Villarrica, Chile
13 hours ago ADVISORY
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Volcano - Ibu, Indonesia
14 hours ago WATCH
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Severe Weather - Sumatra, Indonesia
15 hours ago INFORMATION
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Severe Weather - Northwestern India
15 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - Ciudad Guayana, Monagas, Venezuela
15 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - N of Campana, Buenos Aires, Entre Ríos and Santa Fe, Argentina
15 hours ago WARNING
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Extreme Temperature - Vietnam
15 hours ago WARNING
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Volcano - Lewotolo, Indonesia
15 hours ago WATCH
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Wildfire - SE of Buffalo Narrows Airport, Saskatchewan, Canada
16 hours ago INFORMATION
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Wildfire - NW of Wood Buffalo, Alberta, Canada
16 hours ago INFORMATION
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Severe Weather - Southeastern Greece
17 hours ago WARNING
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Severe Weather - Portugal
17 hours ago WARNING
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Severe Weather - Southern Greece
17 hours ago WARNING
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Extreme Heat - Central America
17 hours ago WARNING
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Earthquake - 5.3 - 166 km SSW of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea
17 hours ago ADVISORY
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Earthquake - 5.2 - Seram, Indonesia
20 hours ago ADVISORY
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Wildfires - Halifax, Nova Scotia
20 hours ago INFORMATION
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Flood - Yerington, NV Region, United States
20 hours ago WARNING
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Forest Fire - Shelburne, Nova Scotia, Canada
21 hours ago ADVISORY
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Flood - Congo Basin, Middle Africa and Eastern Africa
22 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - W of Trois Rivieres, Ontario and Québec, Canada
22 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - NE of Chicoutimi, Québec, Canada
22 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - Paraiso, Tabasco, Mexico
22 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - SE of Tecuala, Nayarit, Mexico
22 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - W of Geraldton, Ontario, Canada
22 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - Dryden, Manitoba and Ontario, Canada
22 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - Parana Basin, South America
22 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - Suchiate Basin, Coatan and Suchiate Rivers, Guatemala and Mexico
22 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - NE of Dolores, Buenos Aires, Argentina
22 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - N of Pedro Luro, Buenos Aires, Argentina
22 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - SE of Mahakam Basin, Indonesia
22 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - SE of Exmouth, Western Australia, Australia
22 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - Raba, Nusa Tenggara Barat, Indonesia
22 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - W of Griffith, New South Wales and Victoria, Australia
22 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - Bengawan Solo Basin, Indonesia
22 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - Langsa, Aceh and Sumatera Utara, Indonesia
22 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - Bulungan Basin, Brunei, Indonesia and Malaysia
22 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - Indus Basin, India and Pakistan
22 hours ago WARNING
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Wildfire - S of Fort Simpson, Northwest Territories, Canada
21 hours ago ADVISORY
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Flood - Ganges Basin, India and Bangladesh
22 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - Ca Mau, Cà Mau, Vietnam
22 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - Aral Sea Basin, Eastern Asia, Southern Asia and Central Asia
22 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - N of Pakchan Basin, Myanmar, Malaysia and Thailand
22 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - Brahmaputra Basin, Eastern Asia, Southern Asia and South-eastern Asia
22 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - N of Karachi, Baluchistan and Sind, Pakistan
22 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - Golmud, Qinghai, China
22 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - N of Burylbaytal, Almaty, Qaraghandy and Zhambyl, Kazakhstan
22 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - NE of Stoeng Treng, Stœng Trêng, Cambodia
22 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - Irrawaddy Basin, Bangladesh and Myanmar
22 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - Yangtze Basin, China and Taiwan
22 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - Har Us Nuur Basin, China, Russia and Mongolia
22 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - E of Izmayil, Odessa, Ukraine
22 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - Lake Turkana Basin, Ethiopia, Kenya and South Sudan
22 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - Shatt Al Arab Basin, NW of Karun River, Iran and Iraq
22 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - Chad Basin, Middle Africa and Western Africa
22 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - Bolama, Bolama, Guinea-Bissau
22 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - Orange Basin, Botswana, Namibia and South Africa
22 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - Bandama Basin, Côte dIvoire, Guinea and Liberia
22 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - Congo Basin, Dem Rep of the Congo, Tanzania and Zambia
22 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - Senegal Basin, Mauritania
22 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - Zambezi Basin, Botswana, Namibia and Zambia
22 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - Antsiranana, Antsiranana, Mahajanga and Toamasina, Madagascar
22 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - Nile Basin, Egypt
22 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - NE of Adigrat, Tigray, Ethiopia
22 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - Buizhou, Shandong, China
22 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - NW of Chattogram, Chittagong, Bangladesh
22 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - Baraka Basin, E of Baraka River, Eritrea and Sudan
22 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - Ma Basin, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam
22 hours ago WARNING
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Volcano - Sangay, Ecuador
22 hours ago ADVISORY
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Volcano - Cotopaxi, Ecuador
22 hours ago WARNING
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Earthquake - 5.8 - 125 km WSW of Myitkyina, Myanmar
1 day ago WARNING
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Severe Weather - Jordan
23 hours ago INFORMATION
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Landslides - Bulambuli District, Uganda
1 day ago INFORMATION
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Flood - Hailey, ID Region, United States
1 day ago WARNING
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Volcano - Nevado del Ruiz, Colombia
1 day ago WARNING
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Earthquake - 6.3 - Auckland Islands, New Zealand region
1 day ago WATCH
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Earthquake - 5.5 - off the east coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia
1 day ago WATCH
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Flood - W of Douala, Littoral, Cameroon
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - Zhu Basin, Eastern Asia and South-eastern Asia
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - La Paz, Baja California, Baja California Sur and Sonora, Mexico
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - S of Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - Amazon Basin, Ecuador and Peru
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - SW of Remanso, Northeast Brazil
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - Indore, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, India
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - SW of Balikpapan, Kalimantan Selatan, Kalimantan Tengah and Kalimantan Timur, Indonesia
1 day ago WARNING
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Severe Weather - Southern Okinawa Prefecture, Japan
1 day ago WARNING
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Severe Weather - Central and Southern Vietnam
1 day ago WARNING
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Severe Weather - Serbia
1 day ago WARNING
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Extreme Temperature - Hong Kong
1 day ago WARNING
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Severe Weather - Southwest Germany
1 day ago WARNING
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Extreme Heat - Mexico
1 day ago WARNING
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Volcano - Reventador, Ecuador
1 day ago ADVISORY
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Volcano - Aira, Japan
4 days ago WARNING
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Volcano - Rincon de la Vieja, Costa Rica
4 days ago ADVISORY
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Drinking Water - NW of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada
6 days ago ADVISORY
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High Water Level - SE of Brandon, Manitoba, Canada
6 days ago ADVISORY
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Extreme Heat - Dominican Republic
6 days ago WARNING
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Drought - Northwestern United States
6 days ago WARNING
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Drought - High Plains United States
6 days ago WARNING
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Drought - Southeastern United States
6 days ago WARNING
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Drought - US Virgin Islands, United States of America
6 days ago WARNING
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Drought - Puerto Rico, United States of America
6 days ago WARNING
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Drought - Central Asia
1 week ago WARNING
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Heavy Snow - Central Asia
1 week ago WARNING
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Drought - Tuvalu
1 week ago WARNING
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Drought - Uruguay
1 week ago WARNING
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Marburg Virus Disease - Tanzania
3 weeks ago WARNING
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Measles - American Samoa
1 month ago WARNING
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Cholera - Haiti
6 months ago WARNING
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Drought - Djibouti
2 months ago WARNING
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Cholera - Mozambique
3 months ago WARNING
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Ebola Virus - Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo
9 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.
