Training and Exercises
Disaster preparedness saves lives and money
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Tornado - Morristown, TN WFO Region, US
13 minutes ago WARNING
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Floods - Southern, United States
17 minutes ago WARNING
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Thunderstorm - W of Swift Current, Saskatchewan, Canada
21 minutes ago WARNING
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Wildfire - NE of Dawson Creek, British Columbia, Canada
21 minutes ago ADVISORY
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Volcano - Fuego, Guatemala
32 minutes ago WARNING
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Volcano - Semeru, Indonesia
42 minutes ago WARNING
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Air Quality - Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
36 minutes ago ADVISORY
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Tropical Cyclone - Fabien
1 hour ago INFORMATION
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Volcano - Sabancaya, Peru
42 minutes ago WARNING
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Tornado - Jackson, KY WFO Region, US
41 minutes ago WARNING
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Flood - S of Macapa, North Brazil
1 hour ago WARNING
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Flood - Chicoutimi, Québec, Canada
1 hour ago WARNING
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Air Quality - Brandon, Manitoba, Canada
46 minutes ago ADVISORY
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Flood - Linares, Nuevo León and Tamaulipas, Mexico
1 hour ago WARNING
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Flood - SW of Buaale, Jubbada Dhexe, Somalia
1 hour ago WARNING
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Flood - E of Marathon, Ontario, Canada
1 hour ago WARNING
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Flood - SE of Port Hardy, British Columbia, Canada
1 hour ago WARNING
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Flood - Timmins, Ontario and Québec, Canada
1 hour ago WARNING
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Flood - Santarem, Pará, Brazil
1 hour ago WARNING
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Flood - La Paz, Baja California, Baja California Sur and Sonora, Mexico
1 hour ago WARNING
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Flood - Vila Velha, Amapá, Brazil
1 hour ago WARNING
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Flood - Dolo Bay, Oromia, Somali, Southern Nations and Nationalities and Peoples, Ethiopia
1 hour ago WARNING
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Flood - Amazon Basin, SW of Mamore River, Brazil, Bolivia and Peru
1 hour ago WARNING
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Flood - Tanjungpinang, Kepulauan Riau, Indonesia
1 hour ago WARNING
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Thunderstorm - Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada
56 minutes ago WATCH
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Flood - Guayas Basin, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru
1 hour ago WARNING
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Flood - Mahakam Basin, W of Mahakam River, Brunei, Indonesia and Malaysia
1 hour ago WARNING
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Flood - W of Jayapura, Papua, Indonesia
1 hour ago WARNING
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Flood - SW of Zamboanga, Zamboanga del Sur, Philippines
1 hour ago WARNING
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Flood - N of Tennant Creek, Northern Territory, Australia
1 hour ago WARNING
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Flood - Langsa, Aceh and Sumatera Utara, Indonesia
1 hour ago WARNING
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Flood - Hari Basin, Indonesia
1 hour ago WARNING
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Flood - Chao Phraya Basin, E of Chao Phraya River, Cambodia and Thailand
1 hour ago WARNING
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Flood - Huai He Basin, Yangtze and Huai He Rivers, China
1 hour ago WARNING
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Flood - Amur Basin, China and Russia
1 hour ago WARNING
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Flood - Yellow River Basin, China
1 hour ago WARNING
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Flood - E of Zhosaly, Aqtöbe and Qyzylorda, Kazakhstan
1 hour ago WARNING
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Flood - Mekong Basin, Mekong, Sap and Hau Rivers, Cambodia and Vietnam
1 hour ago WARNING
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Flood - Hanggin Houqi, Nei Mongol and Ningxia Hui, China
1 hour ago WARNING
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Flood - SE of Cauvery Basin, Sri Lanka
1 hour ago WARNING
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Flood - Vam Co Basin, NE of Vam Co River, Cambodia and Vietnam
1 hour ago WARNING
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Flood - Liao He Basin, China, South Korea and North Korea
1 hour ago WARNING
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Flood - Aral Sea Basin, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan
1 hour ago WARNING
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Flood - Golmud, Qinghai, China
1 hour ago WARNING
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Flood - Ogooue Basin, Middle Africa
1 hour ago WARNING
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Flood - SE of Karachi, Sind, Pakistan
1 hour ago WARNING
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Flood - Indus Basin, Eastern Asia and Southern Asia
1 hour ago WARNING
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Flood - Aral Sea Basin, Central Asia
1 hour ago WARNING
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Flood - E of Izmayil, Odessa, Ukraine
1 hour ago WARNING
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Flood - W of Atrek Basin, Azerbaijan, Iran and Caspian Sea
1 hour ago WARNING
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Flood - Mongu, Western, Zambia
1 hour ago WARNING
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Flood - Volga Basin, Russia, Kazakhstan and Caspian Sea
1 hour ago WARNING
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Flood - Tuban Basin, Yemen
1 hour ago WARNING
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Flood - Zomba, Zomba, Malawi
1 hour ago WARNING
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Flood - W of Gwadar, Baluchistan, Pakistan
1 hour ago WARNING
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Flood - Zambezi Basin, SE of Shire River, Mozambique and Malawi
1 hour ago WARNING
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Flood - Zambezi Basin, Mozambique, Malawi and Tanzania
1 hour ago WARNING
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Flood - Abhe Bad Basin, Eastern Africa
1 hour ago WARNING
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Flood - NW of Lukulu, Western, Zambia
1 hour ago WARNING
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Flood - Danube Basin, Southern Europe, Western Europe, Eastern Europe and Kosovo
1 hour ago WARNING
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Flood - Merauke, Papua, Indonesia
1 hour ago WARNING
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Volcano - Lewotolo, Indonesia
1 hour ago WATCH
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Flood - Winnemucca, NV Region, United States
1 hour ago WARNING
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Earthquake - 5.0 - 18 km NNW of Lázaro Cárdenas, Mexico
1 hour ago ADVISORY
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Severe Weather - Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada
2 hours ago ADVISORY
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Severe Weather - Eastern India
2 hours ago WARNING
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Air Quality - Prince George, British Columbia, Canada
2 hours ago ADVISORY
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Air Quality - Grand Prairie, Alberta, Canada
2 hours ago ADVISORY
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Extreme Heat - Vietnam
3 hours ago WARNING
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Volcano - Popocatepetl, Mexico
3 hours ago WARNING
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Extreme Heat - Eastern Sri Lanka
3 hours ago WARNING
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Landslides - Northwestern Rwanda
3 hours ago INFORMATION
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Floods - Northwestern Rwanda
3 hours ago INFORMATION
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Earthquake - 5.0 - 47 km SE of Ambunti, Papua New Guinea
3 hours ago ADVISORY
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Severe Weather - Tonga
4 hours ago WARNING
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Landslides - Jayawijaya Regency, Highlands Papua Province, Indonesia
4 hours ago INFORMATION
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Tornado - Simalungun Regency, North Sumatra, Indonesia
4 hours ago INFORMATION
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Severe Weather - South Island, New Zealand
5 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - Fort Leonard Wood, MO Region, United States
5 hours ago WARNING
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Earthquake - 5.3 - 264 km WSW of Olonkinbyen, Svalbard and Jan Mayen
5 hours ago ADVISORY
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Floods - Upper Midwestern, United States
5 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - Jubba Basin, Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia
1 day ago WARNING
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Wildfire - NE of Uspenka, Tyumenskaya, Russia
6 hours ago INFORMATION
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Wildfire - W of Znamenskoye, Omskaya, Russia
6 hours ago INFORMATION
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Frost - Little Current, Ontario, Canada
6 hours ago ADVISORY
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Storms - Northern Italy
8 hours ago WARNING
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Floods - Croatia
8 hours ago WARNING
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Wildfire - SE of Pine Creek, Northern Territory, Australia
11 hours ago INFORMATION
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Wildfire - S of Pine Creek, Northern Territory, Australia
11 hours ago INFORMATION
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Volcano - Suwanosejima, Japan
12 hours ago ADVISORY
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Frost - Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
13 hours ago ADVISORY
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Frost - Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada
13 hours ago ADVISORY
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Volcano - Dukono, Indonesia
15 hours ago WATCH
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Wildfire - NW of Fort St. John, British Columbia, Canada
15 hours ago ADVISORY
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Volcano - Reventador, Ecuador
17 hours ago ADVISORY
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Flood - Yangtze Basin, China and Taiwan
18 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - Mekong Basin, Cambodia and Vietnam
18 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - Sao Luis, Maranhão and Pará, Brazil
18 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - Val dOr, Ontario and Québec, Canada
18 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - E of Sinop, Mato Grosso, Brazil
18 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - Breves, Pará, Brazil
18 hours ago WARNING
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Volcano - Cotopaxi, Ecuador
18 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - W of Tuban Basin, Eastern Africa
18 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - NE of Dolores, Buenos Aires, Argentina
18 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - Parana Basin, Parana and Salado Rivers, Argentina
18 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - NW of Port Moresby, National Capital District, Papua New Guinea
18 hours ago WARNING
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Flood - Minden, LA Region, United States
19 hours ago WARNING
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Volcano - Sheveluch, Russia
21 hours ago ADVISORY
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Drinking Water - NE of Yorkton, Saskatchewan, Canada
23 hours ago ADVISORY
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Wildfire - NE of Dampier Peninsula, Western Australia, Australia
23 hours ago INFORMATION
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Flood - Congo Basin, Middle Africa and Eastern Africa
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - Luuq, Gedo, Somalia
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - Pra Basin, NW of Pra River, Côte dIvoire and Ghana
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - Orange Basin, Botswana, Namibia and South Africa
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - NW of Nipigon, Ontario, Canada
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - Cavally Basin, Côte dIvoire, Guinea and Liberia
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - S of Tecuala, Nayarit, Mexico
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - Saint John Basin, Canada
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - Paraiso, Tabasco, Mexico
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - Dryden, Manitoba and Ontario, Canada
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - Barrie, Ontario and Québec, Canada
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - Fuerte Nuevo Basin, Mexico
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - Tocantins Basin, W of Araguaia River, Brazil
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - Parana Basin, South America
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - Amazon Basin, Ecuador and Peru
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - SE of Mahakam Basin, Indonesia
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - NW of Bella Union, Artigas, Uruguay
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - SE of Exmouth, Western Australia, Australia
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - E of Carnarvon, Western Australia, Australia
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - NE of Kinabatangan Basin, Philippines
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - Bengawan Solo Basin, Indonesia
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - Murray Basin, Murray, Darling and Murrumbidgee Rivers, Australia
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - NW of Karachi, Sind, Pakistan
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - Pakchan Basin, S of Pakchan River, Myanmar, Malaysia and Thailand
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - E of Baoding, Hebei, China
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - N of Burylbaytal, Almaty, Qaraghandy and Zhambyl, Kazakhstan
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - Irrawaddy Basin, India, Bangladesh and Myanmar
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - Ganges Basin, India and Bangladesh
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - Indus Basin, India and Pakistan
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - Yancheng, East China
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - Machilipatnam, Andhra Pradesh, Puducherry and Telangana, India
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - Nile Basin, Eastern Africa, Middle Africa and Northern Africa
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - Shatt Al Arab Basin, Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - Shatt Al Arab Basin, Southern Asia and Western Asia
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - Conakry, Conakry, Guinea
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - E of Abadan, Khuzestan, Iran
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - Okavango Basin, Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - Tana Basin, N of Tana River, Kenya, Somalia and Tanzania
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - Lake Turkana Basin, Eastern Africa
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - Niger Basin, Nigeria
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - Angoche, Nampula and Zambezia, Mozambique
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - N of Macia, Gaza and Inhambane, Mozambique
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - Zambezi Basin, Angola, Dem Rep of the Congo and Zambia
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - Volta Basin, NE of Volta River, Ghana and Togo
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - Chad Basin, Middle Africa and Western Africa
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - Irrawaddy Basin, India and Myanmar
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - NE of Adigrat, Tigray, Ethiopia
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - Irrawaddy Basin, China, India and Myanmar
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - S of Tamale, Northern, Ghana
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - Kilindoni, Pwani, Tanzania
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - NE of Tsiribihina Basin, Madagascar
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - Nile Basin, Egypt
1 day ago WARNING
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Flood - NE of Asosa, Benshangul-Gumaz, Ethiopia
1 day ago WARNING
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Landslides - West Seram Regency, Maluku, Indonesia
1 day ago INFORMATION
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Severe Weather - Bogor Regency, West Java, Indonesia
1 day ago INFORMATION
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Tornado - South Lampung Regency, Indonesia
1 day ago INFORMATION
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Landslides - West Bandung Regency, West Java, Indonesia
1 day ago INFORMATION
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Severe Weather - Northwestern Pakistan
1 day ago INFORMATION
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Storms - Peninsular Malaysia
1 day ago WARNING
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Storms - Eastern Malaysia
1 day ago WARNING
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Volcano - Aira, Japan
1 day ago WARNING
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Severe Weather - Guyana
1 day ago WARNING
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Severe Weather - Northern Brazil
1 day ago WARNING
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Extreme Heat - Mexico
1 day ago WARNING
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Severe Weather - Northeastern Mexico
1 day ago WARNING
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Volcano - Nevado del Ruiz, Colombia
1 day ago WARNING
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High Water Level - S of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
3 days ago ADVISORY
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High Water Level - W of Steinbach, Manitoba, Canada
3 days ago WARNING
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High Water Level - S of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
3 days ago WATCH
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Flood - Selma, CA Region, United States
3 days ago WARNING
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Volcano - Krakatau, Indonesia
3 days ago WARNING
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Extreme Heat - Central America
5 days ago WARNING
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Extreme Heat - Central Africa
5 days ago WARNING
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Extreme Heat - Southern Africa
5 days ago WARNING
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Volcano - San Miguel, El Salvador
5 days ago ADVISORY
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Volcano - Villarrica, Chile
5 days ago ADVISORY
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Drought - Uruguay
5 days ago WARNING
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Drought - Tuvalu
5 days ago WARNING
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Extreme Heat - Western Africa
5 days ago WARNING
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Flood - Fargo, ND--MN Region, United States
5 days ago WARNING
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Heavy Snow - Central Asia
5 days ago WARNING
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Drought - Central Asia
5 days ago WARNING
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Drought - Southeastern United States
5 days ago WARNING
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Drought - High Plains United States
5 days ago WARNING
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Drought - Southwestern United States
5 days ago WARNING
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Drought - Hawaii, United States of America
5 days ago WARNING
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Drought - US Virgin Islands, United States of America
5 days ago WARNING
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Drought - Northwestern United States
5 days ago WARNING
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Marburg Virus Disease - Tanzania
1 week ago WARNING
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Marburg Virus Disease - Equatorial Guinea
1 month ago WARNING
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Measles - American Samoa
2 weeks ago WARNING
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Cholera - Haiti
5 months ago WARNING
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Drought - Djibouti
2 months ago WARNING
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Cholera - Mozambique
2 months ago WARNING
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Ebola Virus - Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo
8 months ago WARNING
DisasterAWARE® Training and Preparedness Exercises
Using our extensive hazard data and unique DisasterAWARE platform, we can help you simulate realistic hazard scenarios to help gain a deeper understanding of hazard impacts on communities. We also can assist with exercising preparedness plans in advance of real-world events. Our exercise program can help test complex networks of organizations and response activities—making sure stakeholders respond effectively under high-pressure and ever-changing circumstances. Our experts can support any type of exercise and hazard scenario. We also provide online training and instructor-led training on our DisasterAWARE platform.
Your DisasterAWARE training starts here
Watch our self-paced DisasterAWARE training videos to master the basics or request an instructor-led DisasterAWARE training on-site, at your location or ours. We can help you accomplish nearly any training objective.
Disaster Preparedness Exercises
Exercise Options
Exercises help decision makers identify as much about what goes right with disaster preparedness plans as what goes wrong. We’ve helped organizations around the world design and conduct exercises and incorporate lessons learned into planning and preparedness activities.
Scenario-based Training
- Often focused on policy or strategic issues
- Smaller scope, less complex
Tabletop Exercises
- Provides facilitated analysis of an emergency situation
- Examines policies, procedures, and operations to validate and refine plans as needed.
- Informal, stress-free environment
Functional Exercises
- Fully simulated exercise
- Realistic event, testing response capabilities in time-pressured environment
- Involves multiple functions, agencies, and organizations
Full-scale Exercises
- Tests regional, national, subnational disaster management systems
- Simulates real event as closely as possible.
- Mobilizes emergency personnel and victims (actors), equipment, and resources
Benefits of our exercise
support program
- Leverage the best information to solve problems and make life-saving decisions using DisasterAWARE
- Accurately simulate real-world hazards and impacts based on DisasterAWARE historical hazard data
- Identify planning weaknesses and time-saving measures
- Reveal gaps in resources and information
- Improve organizational coordination and communications
- Clarify roles and responsibilities
- Enhance individual and team performance
Recent Training Events and Exercises
PDC supported the 12th annual Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HA/DR) Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT) Course at the request of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). PDC hosted more than 30 participants at its Maui headquarters for hands-on DisasterAWARE training, 02–03 March.
As part of a disaster response and medical capabilities Subject Matter Expert Exchange (SMEE) in Thimphu, Bhutan, from 12–14 November, PDC conducted a table-top exercise simulating a M5.5 earthquake in the southeast of the country with data it gathered on Bhutan. The Bhutan Department of Disaster Management used the exercise to test its new incident command system standard operating procedure.
PDC traveled to Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, to facilitate the Field Training Exercise for the Pacific Endeavor Multinational Communications Interoperability Program (MCIP) 2019 on 06-16 August. DisasterAWARE was used to reach out across the 19 participating countries with data for a three-day scenario.
The 2019 ADMM–Plus Exercise was the most robust evaluation of civil-military HA/DR procedures in the history of ADMM–Plus. The tsunami scenario—modeled by PDC—involved more than twenty countries and organizations participating from their home locations, collaborating digitally using PDC's DisasterAWARE from July 30 to August 1.
The Hawaii National Guard received a full day of training from PDC that merged DisasterAWARE user training with selected modules from PDC's Hazard Resiliency Network ("R-NET") course on 04 May, 2019. Participants were given tools and knowledge regarding all phases of the disaster management cycle.
PDC delivered a series of training sessions at the ASEAN Coordination Centre for Humanitarian Assistance (AHA Centre) in Jakarta to support operational use of the DMRS system, powered by DisasterAWARE, February 25–27, 2019. Training included 16 operational staff from the AHA Centre, who demonstrated their DMRS-user skills in a series of disaster-related exercises.
2020 – 2021 EXERCISE SUPPORT DURING COVID-19
PDC continues to support training and exercises throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Most activities have been transitioned to a virtual platform to ensure the health and safety of all participants.
