Advances and challenges in the implementation of the UNESCO/LOC tsunami ready recognition programme in the pacific and caribbean region ...

• Main Authors: Kong, Laura, von Hillebrandt-Andrade, Christa, Hincapie Cardenas, Carolina, Soto, Stephanie, Brome, Alison, Aliaga, Bernardo
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences 2023
• Subjects: Indian; Pacific; Northeast Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.57757/iugg23-0257; https://gfzpublic.gfz-potsdam.de/pubman/item/item_5016206

<!--!introduction!--> In June 2022 the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO established the Tsunami Ready Recognition Programme. It is modelled after the US TsunamiReady® Program established in 2001. To receive Tsunami Ready recognition, each community must meet 12 indicators that cover Assessment, Preparedness, and Response. The recognition is renewable every four years. The Tsunami Information Centres in each region (ITIC in the Pacific, CTIC in the Caribbean, IOTIC in the Indian Ocean and NEAMTIC in the Mediterranean and Northeast Atlantic) facilitate the implementation of this Programme. To date, more than 30 communities in 20 countries in the Pacific and Caribbean, and 40 globally have been recognized. ITIC and its Caribbean Office (previously known as the Caribbean Tsunami Warning Program) have been supporting the program in its different phases since 2012. In 2014, Anguilla, a UK Territory in the Caribbean, was the first to be recognized. Currently, with funding from USAID, ... : The 28th IUGG General Assembly (IUGG2023) (Berlin 2023) ...