Training and Exercises
Disaster preparedness saves lives and money
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Volcano - Sabancaya, Peru
27 minutes ago WARNING
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Volcano - Karymsky, Russia
34 minutes ago WARNING
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Volcano - Krakatau, Indonesia
37 minutes ago WARNING
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Tornado - Bismarck, ND WFO Region, US
39 minutes ago WARNING
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Tornado - Goodland, KS WFO Region, US
49 minutes ago WARNING
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Volcano - Manam, Papua New Guinea
1 hour ago WARNING
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Volcano - Suwanosejima, Japan
1 hour ago ADVISORY
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Volcano - Reventador, Ecuador
1 hour ago ADVISORY
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Wildfire - W of Wyndham, Western Australia - Australia
1 hour ago INFORMATION
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Wildfire - E of Pine Creek, Northern Territory - Australia
1 hour ago INFORMATION
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Volcano - Nevado del Ruiz, Colombia
2 hours ago WARNING
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Earthquake - 5.0 - Ascension Island region
2 hours ago ADVISORY
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Wildfire - NE of Juchitan, Oaxaca - Mexico
2 hours ago ADVISORY
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Wildfire - NE of Petatlan, Guerrero - Mexico
2 hours ago INFORMATION
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Wildfire - E of Mesa, Arizona - United States
2 hours ago WARNING
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Wildfire - W of Truth or Consequences, New Mexico - United States
2 hours ago ADVISORY
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Volcano - Semisopochnoi, United States
3 hours ago WATCH
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Earthquake - 5.0 - 137 km E of Lospalos, Timor Leste
3 hours ago ADVISORY
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Volcano - Dukono, Indonesia
3 hours ago WATCH
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Earthquake - 5.2 - 143 km ENE of Hachinohe, Japan
3 hours ago ADVISORY
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Volcano - Sangay, Ecuador
3 hours ago ADVISORY
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Earthquake - 5.5 - south of New Zealand
4 hours ago WATCH
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Drought - Eastern Africa
5 hours ago WARNING
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Storms - Southern South Africa
5 hours ago WARNING
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Earthquake - 5.6 - 229 km SSE of Katsuura, Japan
19 hours ago WATCH
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Volcano - Nevados de Chillán, Chile
8 hours ago ADVISORY
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Flood - Grand Forks, ND--MN Region, United States
9 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - Grand Forks AFB, ND Region, United States
9 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - Fargo, ND--MN Region, United States
9 hours ago WARNING
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Earthquake - 5.2 - 65 km N of Claveria, Philippines
9 hours ago ADVISORY
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Earthquake - 5.3 - 224 km SSE of Katsuura, Japan
18 hours ago ADVISORY
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Flood - Valley City, ND Region, United States
10 hours ago WARNING
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Floods - Upper Midwestern, United States
10 hours ago WARNING
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Floods - New South Wales, Australia
11 hours ago WARNING
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Floods - Queensland, Australia
11 hours ago WARNING
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Storms - Western Australia
11 hours ago WARNING
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Earthquake - 5.5 - 223 km SSE of Katsuura, Japan
11 hours ago WATCH
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Storms - North Island, New Zealand
11 hours ago WARNING
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Earthquake - 5.8 - 163 km S of Bengkulu, Indonesia
11 hours ago WATCH
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Storms - Vietnam
11 hours ago WARNING
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Storms - Eastern Malaysia
11 hours ago WARNING
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Storms - Peninsular Malaysia
11 hours ago WARNING
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Storms - Thailand
11 hours ago WARNING
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Extreme Heat - Mexico
13 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - Québec, Canada
13 hours ago WARNING
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Landslides - Northeastern India
14 hours ago WARNING
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Floods - Northeastern India
14 hours ago WARNING
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Landslide - Almaty Region, Kazakhstan
14 hours ago INFORMATION
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Storms - Serang Regency, Banten, Indonesia
14 hours ago WARNING
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Floods - Parigi Moutong, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia
14 hours ago INFORMATION
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Floods - Bengkalis Regency, Riau, Indonesia
14 hours ago WARNING
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Storms - Sri Lanka
20 hours ago WARNING
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Storms - Cambodia
21 hours ago WARNING
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Storms - Northern Brazil
21 hours ago WARNING
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Volcano - Semeru, Indonesia
21 hours ago WARNING
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Volcano - Aira, Japan
1 day ago WARNING
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Volcano - Lewotolo, Indonesia
1 day ago WATCH
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Storms - Southern Serbia
1 day ago WARNING
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Extreme Temperature - Lithuania
1 day ago WARNING
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Extreme Heat - Northern India
1 day ago WARNING
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Floods - Inland and Southern Guyana
1 day ago WARNING
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Storms - Southern Guyana
1 day ago WARNING
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Floods - Tasmania
1 day ago WARNING
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Floods - Central Mamuju Regency, West Sulawesi Province, Indonesia
1 day ago INFORMATION
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Floods - American Samoa
1 day ago WARNING
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Extreme Cold - Southern Brazil
1 day ago WARNING
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Storms - Eastern India
1 day ago WARNING
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Storms - Southern India
1 day ago WARNING
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Extreme Heat - Pakistan
1 day ago WARNING
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Floods - Northern Vietnam
1 day ago WARNING
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Landslides - Northern Vietnam
1 day ago WARNING
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Volcano - Ibu, Indonesia
1 day ago WATCH
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Storms - Brunei
1 day ago WARNING
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Storms - Northern Vietnam
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - International Falls, MN Region, United States
2 days ago WARNING
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Volcano - Fuego, Guatemala
2 days ago WARNING
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Volcano - Etna, Italy
4 days ago WARNING
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Drought - High Plains United States
5 days ago WARNING
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Drought - Northwestern United States
5 days ago WARNING
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Drought - Southwestern United States
5 days ago WARNING
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Drought - Southern United States
5 days ago WARNING
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Drought - Southeastern United States
5 days ago WARNING
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Drought - US Virgin Islands
5 days ago WARNING
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Drought - Marshall Islands
5 days ago WARNING
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Drought - Hawaii, United States
5 days ago WARNING
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Drought - Southwestern Africa
6 days ago WARNING
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Drought - Southern Mozambique
6 days ago WARNING
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Drought - Southern Madagascar
6 days ago WARNING
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Drought - Central Asia
6 days ago WARNING
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Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) - North America
1 month ago WARNING
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Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) - Latin America/Caribbean
1 month ago WARNING
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Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) - Middle East
1 month ago WARNING
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Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) - Africa
1 month ago WARNING
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Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) - Europe
1 month ago WARNING
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Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) - Asia Pacific
1 month ago WARNING
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Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) - Hawaii
1 month 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.
