Tsunami Warning and Emergency Response, Papua New Guinea, August 2019

Strengthening Tsunami Warning and Emergency Response and the
development of Standard Operating Procedures

Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
5-9 August 2019

The training focused on the end-to-end tsunami warning and emergency response chain, focusing on the importance of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for enabling consistent and rapid tsunami warning and response. SOP development is a dynamic process, and each event is unique in its generation and impact, and so also in its response. In every event and with every tsunami exercise, we improve our response and learn a little more about the science of tsunamis and how to better mitigate against their impact. At the local level, communities recognized as Tsunami Ready by UNESCO IOC have prepared beforehand by identifying their hazard and risk, developing evacuation maps, conducting regular exercises to practice their plans, sponsoring multiple education and awareness events, and installing reliable methods to receive and issue warnings.

 Informational Documents