Your community can prepare for tsunamis in many ways:
- Establish a 24-hour warning point and emergency operations center with advanced communications capability
- Develop a formal tsunami plan, which includes promoting public readiness and holding emergency exercises
- Survey residents to determine their level of tsunami awareness
- Conduct volunteer-based neighborhood education campaigns
- Organize and hold communitywide tsunami evacuation drills
- Provide local workshops targeting the business and lodging community, residents, and visitors
- Work with local schools on tsunami awareness and preparedness
For more information on how your community can prepare, contact us or take a look at what these communities have already done.
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