CARIBE WAVE/LANTEX 13

20 March 2013

 

The annual Regional Tsunami Exercise, CARIBE WAVE 13, was conducted on 20 March 2013 at 1400 UTC. Over 44,000 people from across the entire Caribbean basin participated in this exercise. UNESCO/IOC Intergovernmental Coordination Group for Tsunamis and Other Coastal Hazards for the Caribbean and Adjacent Regions (CARIBE EWS) Member States and Territories had one scenarios to use: a tsunami generated by a Mw 8.5 earthquake in Aruba. Tsunami exercises such as CARIBE WAVE are important to validate and advance end-to-end tsunami preparedness across the Caribbean and Adjacent Regions. All 48 CARIBE EWS Member States and Territories, stakeholders, and communities at risk are encouraged to plan for and participate in tsunami exercises.

Final Documents  Links
Preliminary Executive Summary  PDF 
Evaluation Report (IOC TS 101, Vol 2, Juy 2020)  PDF
Media Report  PDF
Exercise Documents  Links
Participant Handbook (IOC TS 101, Vol 1, October 2012)  PDF 
Press Release (Puerto Rico, Spanish)  PDF 
Presentation (English)  PDF
Animation CARIBE WAVE Scenarios in the Caribbean

 AVI

Animation of CARIBE WAVE Scenario in Puerto Rico (West)  AVI
Animation of CARIBE WAVE Scenario in Puerto Rico (East)  AVI
Animation of CARIBE WAVE Scenario in Puerto Rico (Central)  AVI
Supporting Documents  Links
PTWC Communication Plan (2006)  PDF
How to Plan, Conduct and Evaluate Tsunami Exercises (IOC Manuals and Guides 58, 2013)  PDF, EN
 PDF, SP
Standard Guidelines for the Tsunami Ready Recognition Programme (IOC Manuals and Guides 74, April 2022)  PDF
Multi-annual Community Tsunami Exercise Programme (Manuals and Guides 86, September 2021)  PDF, EN
 PDF, SP
 PDF, FR
Users' Guide for the Central America Tsunami Advisory Centre (CATAC) (2019 draft)  PDF, SP

CARIBE WAVE webinars

Two series of webinars are held for Member States’ stakeholders prior to the exercise. The first webinar is dedicated to explaining the exercise’s objectives, tsunami scenarios, and tsunami products, whereas the second webinar focuses on communication systems and the exercise evaluation. They are conducted in English and Spanish to facilitate the participation of all the countries. All the presentations from the webinars are made available.

Webinars  Links
Webinar 1  
   English (25 January 2013)  Presentation
   Spanish (24 January 2013)  Presentation
Webinar 2  
   English (15 February 2013)  Presentation
   Spanish (14 February 2013)  Presentation

Additional Resources  Links
Caribbean Tsunami Information Center (CTIC)  Website
Central America Tsunami Advisory Center (CATAC)  Website  
UNESCO/IOC list of designated national agencies responsible for the coordination of international tsunami warning and mitigation activities  Website
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI)/World Data Service (WDS) Global Historical Tsunami Database  Website
NOAA Tsunami Program  Website  
TsunamiZone  Website
UNESCO IOC Tsunami Page  Website
 UNESCO IOC Tsunami Ready Recognition Programme  Website
TsunamiZone  Website
US Tsunami Warning System  Website

 

For questions please contact:
christa.vonh@noaa.gov – Manager ITIC-CAR
a.brome@unesco.org – Programme Officer CTIC

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