In the United States and its territories, there are 200 tsunami-ready locales, a designation that asks communities to have evacuation maps, signage and sustained public education efforts.
An earthquake can be a terrifying experience. Unfortunately, the terror is compounded if you live near an ocean. With many earthquakes occurring on fault lines out at ...
It was one of the greatest natural disasters of all time. On the morning of Boxing Day 2004, a massive tsunami hit the coast of the Indian Ocean. More than 230,000 people died, including many ...
Under standard tsunami evacuation procedures, people are supposed to “flee as quickly as possible after an earthquake.” The 3/11 disaster led him to consider ways for people to survive even ...
NDRRMC Executive Director Ariel Nepomuceno, in a memorandum ordered the Office of Civil Defense (OCD) in Ilocos Region, Cagayan Valley and Central Luzon to draft a comprehensive tsunami evacuation ...