NOAA
CARIBE WAVE 24
21 March 2024 at 1500 UTC
REGISTER FOR CARIBE WAVE 24 HERE!
|
|
Click to see and download the CARIBE WAVE Exercise video in: English Spanish French |
Click image to view in this window. Click to view in YouTube. Click to view or download in Vimeo
The thirteenth annual Regional Tsunami Exercise, CARIBE WAVE 24, will be conducted on the 21rst of March 2024 at 1500 UTC. UNESCO/IOC Intergovernmental Coordination Group for Tsunamis and Other Coastal Hazards for the Caribbean and Adjacent Regions (CARIBE EWS) Member States and Territories will have two scenarios from which to choose: a tsunami generated by a Mw 8.7 earthquake in the Puerto Rico Trench and a tsunami generated by a Mw 8.47 earthquake in Panama. Tsunami exercises such as CARIBE WAVE are important to validate and advance end-to-end tsunami preparedness across the Caribbean and Adjacent Regions. All 48 CARIBE EWS Member States and Territories, stakeholders, and communities at risk are encouraged to plan for and participate in the exercise.
| Final Documents | Links |
| Supplement Report | PDF |
| Media Report | |
| Exercise Documents | Links |
| Participant Handbook (IOC TS 187, December 2023) | |
| Announcement (IOC Circular Letter 2979, 14 December 2023) | |
| Scenario Selection | PDF Survey |
| Post-exercise questionnaire (Due April 11th, 2024) | PDF Survey |
| CARIBE WAVE Logo | PNG |
| Puerto Rico Trench Scenario KMZ | KMZ |
| Panama Scenario KMZ | KMZ |
| Supporting Documents | Links |
| TsunamiZone Registration Guide | |
| Advancing disability inclusion in disaster risk reduction and recovery (UNDRR, 2023) | Article |
| CARIBE WAVE: A Decade of Exercises for Validating Tsunami Preparedness in the Caribbean and Adjacent Regions | BSSA Article |
| User's Guide for the PTWC Enhanced Products for CARIBE-EWS (IOC TS 135, 2017) |
PDF, EN |
| User's Guide Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands (December 2023) | |
| PTWC Communication Plan (2006) | |
| How to Plan, Conduct and Evaluate Tsunami Exercises (IOC Manuals and Guides 58, 2013) |
PDF, EN PDF, SP |
| Multi-annual Community Tsunami Exercise Programme (IOC Manuals and Guides 86, September 2021) |
PDF, EN PDF, SP PDF, FR |
| Training Manual on Community Tsunami Risk Management | PDF, ENG PDF, SPA |
| Standard Guidelines for the Tsunami Ready Recognition Programme (IOC Manuals and Guides 74, April 2022) |
|
CARIBE WAVE 24 Scenarios by Member State/Territory *scenarios decided by CARIBE WAVE organizers per Exercise Handbook |
|
| Puerto Rico Trench | Panama |
| Antigua and Barbuda | Aruba |
| Bahamas* | Belize* |
| Barbados | Colombia |
| Brazil | Costa Rica |
| Cuba | Curacao* |
| Dominica | Grenada |
| Domincan Republic | Guatemala |
| France (Martinique, Guadeloupe, Iles Du Nord [St. Martin and St. Barthelemy]) | Haiti |
| Guyana | Honduras |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | Jamaica |
| Saint Lucia | Mexico |
| St. Vincent and the Grenadines | Nicaragua |
| Sint Maarten* | NL – (Bonaire, Sint Eustatius, Saba) |
| Suriname* | Panama |
| Trinidad and Tobago | UK – (Cayman Islands) |
| UK - (Anguilla, British Virgin Islands, Bermuda, Montserrat*, Turks and Caicos) | Venezuela |
| US - (Puerto Rico and US Virgin Islands) | |
CARIBE WAVE webinars
Two series of webinars are held for Member States’ stakeholders prior to the exercise. The first webinar is dedicated to explaining the exercise’s objectives, tsunami scenarios, and tsunami products, whereas the second webinar focuses on communication systems and the exercise evaluation. They are conducted in English, Spanish, and French to facilitate the participation of all the countries. A post-exercise webinar “Hot-Wash” is held for Member States to discuss their experience and participation on the exercise. All webinars are recorded, and the presentations are made available.
| Webinars (Click the link below to join. No registration required) | Links |
| Webinar 1 | |
| English (23 January 2024 at 1800 UTC) | |
| Spanish (24 January 2024 at 1800 UTC) | |
| French (25 January 2024 at 1800 UTC) | |
| Webinar 2 | |
| English (27 February 2024 at 1800 UTC) | |
| Spanish (28 February 2024 at 1800 UTC) | |
| French (29 February 2024 at 1800 UTC) | |
| GEONETCast Americas (GNC-A) Training (8 March 2024 at 1800 UTC) | |
| Hotwash (2 April 2024 at 1800 UTC) |
Recording Presentation |
| Additional Resources | Links |
| Caribbean Tsunami Information Center (CTIC) | Website |
| Tsunami.gov (Pacific Tsunami Warning Center) | Website |
| Central America Tsunami Advisory Center (CATAC) | Website |
| UNESCO/IOC list of designated national agencies responsible for the coordination of international tsunami warning and mitigation activities | Website |
| NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI)/World Data Service (WDS) Global Historical Tsunami Database | Website |
| TsunamiZone | Website |
| UNESCO IOC Tsunami Page | Website |
| UNESCO IOC Tsunami Ready Recognition Programme | Website |
| NOAA Tsunami Program | Website |
For questions please contact:
christa.vonh@noaa.gov – Manager ITIC-CAR
antoniodesastres@gmail.com – CARIBE WAVE Chair
a.brome@unesco.org – Programme Officer CTIC
Quick Links
Resources
Tsunami Awareness Poster
Available in English, Spanish, Chinese, French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Singalese.
Global & Regional Hazard Maps
Tsunami Sources, Significant Earthquakes, Significant Volcanic Eruptions, Tsunami Icosohedron Globe.
TsunamiTeacher USA
Tsunami Basics
Also on YouTube
(w/closed captioning)
Learn the basics of tsunamis. Available in English, Samoan.