Training and Exercises
Disaster preparedness saves lives and money
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Wildfire - NW of Mucusso, Caprivi - Angola
40 minutes ago INFORMATION
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Wildfire - N of Dilolo, Katanga - Congo (Kinshasa)
40 minutes ago INFORMATION
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Wildfire - N of Malanje - Angola
41 minutes ago INFORMATION
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Wildfire - W of Luanshya, Copperbelt - Zambia
41 minutes ago INFORMATION
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Wildfire - NE of Lubumbashi, Katanga - Congo (Kinshasa)
42 minutes ago INFORMATION
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Wildfire - N of Calucinga, Bi - Angola
42 minutes ago ADVISORY
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Hurricane - Howard
1 hour ago INFORMATION
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Wildfire - NW of Muconda, Lunda Sul - Angola
12 hours ago INFORMATION
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Flood - Robinson, IL Region, United States
52 minutes ago WARNING
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Flood - Winslow, AZ Region, United States
1 hour ago WARNING
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Volcano - Sabancaya, Peru
1 hour ago WARNING
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Flood - El Centro--Calexico, CA Region, United States
1 hour ago WARNING
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Floods - Central, United States
1 hour ago WARNING
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Flood - Deming, NM Region, United States
2 hours ago WARNING
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Volcano - Nevado del Ruiz, Colombia
2 hours ago WARNING
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Wildfire - E of Buchans, Newfoundland and Labrador - Canada
5 hours ago INFORMATION
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Wildfire - S of Kuching, Sarawak - Malaysia
2 hours ago INFORMATION
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Flood - Davenport, IA--IL Region, United States
3 hours ago WARNING
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Volcano - Fuego, Guatemala
3 hours ago WARNING
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Volcano - Suwanosejima, Japan
3 hours ago ADVISORY
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Volcano - Sangay, Ecuador
3 hours ago WARNING
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Volcano - Aira, Japan
4 hours ago WARNING
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Volcano - Karymsky, Russia
4 hours ago ADVISORY
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Storms - South and Central Guatemala
5 hours ago WARNING
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Volcano - Semeru, Indonesia
5 hours ago WARNING
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Floods - Pakistan
6 hours ago WARNING
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Floods - Colombia
5 hours ago WARNING
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Volcano - Popocatepetl, Mexico
5 hours ago ADVISORY
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Floods - Sudan
6 hours ago WARNING
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Floods - Bangladesh
6 hours ago INFORMATION
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Extreme Heat - Western Croatia
6 hours ago WARNING
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Floods - South Bolaang Mongondow Regency, North Sulawesi, Indonesia
21 hours ago WARNING
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Floods - Kapuas Hulu Regency, West Kalimantan, Indonesia
21 hours ago WARNING
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Floods - Katingan Regency, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia
20 hours ago WARNING
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Floods - Victoria, Australia
7 hours ago WARNING
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Floods - New South Wales, Australia
7 hours ago WARNING
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Floods - Queensland, Australia
7 hours ago WARNING
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Earthquake - 5.2 - 61 km S of Pangai, Tonga
7 hours ago ADVISORY
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Storms - Northern Mexico
8 hours ago WARNING
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Wildfire - McKinney Fire - Northern California, United States
9 hours ago WARNING
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Drought - Tonga
10 hours ago WARNING
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Landslides - Northern Vietnam
10 hours ago WARNING
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Floods - Northern Vietnam
10 hours ago WARNING
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Storms - Vietnam
10 hours ago WARNING
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Extreme Heat - Vietnam
10 hours ago WARNING
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Landslides - Central Vietnam
10 hours ago WARNING
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Floods - Central Vietnam
10 hours ago WARNING
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Storms - Eastern Malaysia
10 hours ago WARNING
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Storms - Thailand
10 hours ago WARNING
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Extreme Heat - South Korea
11 hours ago WARNING
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Landslides - Northern Japan
11 hours ago WARNING
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Floods - Northern Japan
11 hours ago WARNING
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Volcano - Reventador, Ecuador
11 hours ago ADVISORY
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Earthquake - 5.1 - 81 km E of Isangel, Vanuatu
11 hours ago ADVISORY
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Storms - China
11 hours ago WARNING
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Extreme Heat - China
11 hours ago WARNING
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Floods - Myanmar
11 hours ago WARNING
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Storms - Southern India
12 hours ago WARNING
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Floods - India
12 hours ago WARNING
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Drought - Lanny Jaya Regency, Papua, Indonesia
12 hours ago INFORMATION
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Floods - Philippines
12 hours ago INFORMATION
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Landslides - Philippines
12 hours ago INFORMATION
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Floods - Dakar, Senegal
13 hours ago INFORMATION
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Storms - Italy
17 hours ago WARNING
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Floods - Yemen
17 hours ago WARNING
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Storms - Serbia
20 hours ago WARNING
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Earthquake - 5.0 - South Sandwich Islands region
20 hours ago ADVISORY
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Floods - Banyuasin Regency, South Sumatra, Indonesia
20 hours ago WARNING
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Extreme Heat - Israel
21 hours ago WARNING
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Landslides - Valencia, Bukidnon, Philippines
21 hours ago WARNING
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Floods - Valencia, Bukidnon, Philippines
21 hours ago WARNING
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Storms - Central india
21 hours ago WARNING
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Floods - Sambas Regency, West Kalimantan, Indonesia
21 hours ago WARNING
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Storms - Brunei
21 hours ago WARNING
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Storms - Brazil
22 hours ago WARNING
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Earthquake - 5.6 - 148 km SSW of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea
22 hours ago WATCH
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Storms - Costa Rica
22 hours ago WARNING
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Storms - Panama
22 hours ago WARNING
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Extreme Heat - Southern France
22 hours ago WARNING
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Storms - Peninsular Malaysia
22 hours ago WARNING
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Storms - Hong Kong
22 hours ago WARNING
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Storms - Sri Lanka
23 hours ago WARNING
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Volcano - Sheveluch, Russia
1 day ago WARNING
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Volcano - Ibu, Indonesia
1 day ago WATCH
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Earthquake - 5.8 - 111 km E of Shikotan, Russia
1 day ago WATCH
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Wildfire - SW of Santiago de Compostela, Galicia - Spain
1 day ago WARNING
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Wildfire - SW of Kherson, Crimea - Ukraine
1 day ago WARNING
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Volcano - Krakatau, Indonesia
2 days ago WARNING
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Floods - Afghanistan
3 days ago INFORMATION
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Floods - Nepal
3 days ago INFORMATION
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Landslides - Japan
3 days ago INFORMATION
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Floods - Japan
3 days ago INFORMATION
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Drought - Horn of Africa
3 days ago INFORMATION
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Drought - Northern Montana
4 days ago WARNING
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Drought - Puerto Rico
4 days ago WARNING
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Drought - US Virgin Islands
4 days ago WARNING
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Drought - Northwestern United States
4 days ago WARNING
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Drought - High Plains United States
4 days ago WARNING
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Drought - Southern United States
4 days ago WARNING
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Drought - Southwestern United States
4 days ago WARNING
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Drought - Hawaii, United States
4 days ago WARNING
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Drought - Central Asia
4 days ago WARNING
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Drought - South Sudan
4 days ago WARNING
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Marburg Virus - Ghana
2 weeks ago WARNING
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Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) - Europe
3 months ago WARNING
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Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) - Africa
3 months ago WARNING
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Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) - Middle East
3 months ago WARNING
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Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) - Latin America/Caribbean
3 months ago WARNING
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Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) - North America
3 months ago WARNING
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Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) - Asia Pacific
3 months ago WARNING
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Monkeypox - United Kingdom
2 weeks ago WARNING
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Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) - Hawaii
3 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.
