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- DIPECHO/UNESCO Tsunami Educational Materials
- More than 100 educational documents for tsunami preparedness are available online for public use through the DIPECHO project coordinated by UNESCO. The virtual library "Educational Materials for Tsunami Preparedness" contains a collection of documents intended to promote the dissemination and use of educational materials in Spanish and English that have been produced by ministries of education, national offices of risk management, oceanographic institutes, seismic services, universities, UN agencies and NGOs to help with tsunami risk reduction with both formal and informal education.
- Caribbean TsunamiReady™ Pilot Project
- Following the successful implementation by the US National Weather Service of its TsunamiReady program, the UNESCO IOC and the NWS with the Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Tsunami and other Coastal Hazards for the Caribbean and Adjacent regions began in 2011 a pilot project for the recognition of non US communities in the Caribbean as TsunamiReady. In December 2011 Anguilla was recognized as the first joint IOC-NWS TsunamiReady community (http://www.stormready.noaa.gov/tsunamiready/ts-com/caribbean-ts.htm). The following documents contain an overview of the Pilot Project and the TsunamiReady application form and guidelines.
- Tsunami Guidelines for Port Authorities
- This document outlines the preparedness measures that need to be taken by port and harbor authorities, now during and after a tsunami.
- Sea Walls and Countermeasures: Technical note of Port and Air Port Research Institute; Japan tsunami
- An English abstract of the Technical Note of the Port and Air Port Research Institute, No. 1231 (pdf)
- Schools, playgrounds, hospitals, factories and homes are often built in areas vulnerable to tsunamis. The TsunamiReady Program, developed by the National Weather Service, is designed to help cities, towns, counties, universities and other large sites in coastal areas reduce the potential for disastrous tsunami-related consequences.
- Tsunami Exercises
- The purpose of these exercises is to improve the effectiveness of the tsunami warning system along the U.S./Canadian Atlantic and Caribbean coasts. The exercise provides an opportunity for emergency management organizations along the Atlantic coast and PR/VI to exercise their operational lines of communications, review their tsunami response procedures, and promote tsunami preparedness.
- La plantilla plan de respuesta para Tsunamis
- Esta plantilla fue preparada para los municipios de Puerto Rico. El Centro de Alerta que sirve actualmente a Puerto Rico y también las Islas Vírgenes es el Centro de Alerta de Tsunamis de la Costa Oeste y Alaska del Servicio Nacional de Meteorología de la NOAA.