• Tsunami Awareness Month Calendar of Events 2012 (update April 12, 2012)
• Hawaii Media Release - 30 March 2012
• HawaiiNewsNow - 30 March 2012
   

Tsunami Awareness Day at the Bishop Museum	Pacific Guardian Center Earth Day Celebration

• National Weather Service, Honolulu, Hawaii, Public Information Statement:

657 AM HST FRI APR 1 2011  

…APRIL IS TSUNAMI AWARENESS MONTH IN HAWAII… EACH YEAR…DURING THE MONTH OF APRIL…THE STATE OF HAWAII MARKS TSUNAMI AWARENESS MONTH. THROUGHOUT THE MONTH FEDERAL…STATE…AND LOCAL AGENCIES SPREAD TSUNAMI SAFETY MESSAGES ALL AROUND THE STATE. TSUNAMI DRILLS ARE HELD BY STATE AND LOCAL OFFICIALS AND EMERGENCY PLANS CONTINUE TO BE REVIEWED.  

YOUR NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN HONOLULU WILL BE SHARING TSUNAMI RELATED SAFETY INFORMATION THROUGHOUT THE MONTH. INFORMATION WILL BE AVAILABLE ON THE WEB AT WWW.WEATHER.GOV/HAWAII…VIA NOAA WEATHER RADIO…AND THROUGH OUR OFFICE FACEBOOK PAGE FOUND AT HTTP://WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/US.NATIONALWEATHERSERVICE.HONOLULU.GOV. SAFETY INFORMATION TOPICS INCLUDE:  

1.  GETTING PREPARED FOR A TSUNAMI

2.  HOW TO STAY SAFE WHEN A TSUNAMI THREATENS

3.  THE NATURAL WARNING SIGNS OF A TSUNAMI

4.  TSUNAMIS AND BOAT SAFETY  

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE HONOLULU IS ALSO PARTNERING WITH OTHER NOAA AGENCIES AND HAWAII STATE CIVIL DEFENSE TO PROMOTE TSUNAMI SAFETY AT EVENTS AROUND THE STATE. COME AND SEE US AT THESE EVENTS:  

1. MAUKA TO MAKAI AT THE WAIKIKI AQUARIUM, APRIL 9TH

2. YMCA HEALTHY KIDS DAY AT BISHOPS MUSEUM, APRIL 16TH

3. MOLOKA’I EARTH DAY CELEBRATION, APRIL 22ND  

CONTACT US ANYTIME WITH ANY QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE REGARDING TSUNAMI SAFETY. HAWAII STATE CIVIL DEFENSE MAINTAINS A GREAT WEBSITE WHERE HAWAII RESIDENTS AND VISITORS CAN SEE WHETHER THEY ARE LOCATED IN A TSUNAMI INUNDATION ZONE.  YOU CAN FIND IT HERE:  HTTP://WWW.SCD.HAWAII.GOV/ FOR MORE INFORMATION ON TSUNAMIS SEE THE INTERNATIONAL TSUNAMI INFORMATION CENTER WEBSITE: HTTP://ITIC.IOC-UNESCO.ORG/