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Severe Thunderstorm and Heavy Rainfall Potential Continues

A low pressure center tracking across the Great Lakes and its associated cold front extending across the Southern Plains will focus occasional showers and thunderstorms through tonight. A few of these thunderstorms may become severe alongside heavy rainfall that may cause flash flooding; Portions of the Southern Plains would be the greatest threat for these hazards through tonight. Read More >

Tsunami, The Great Waves

Tsunami Awareness Materials > Tsunami, The Great Waves

 

Tsunami, The Great Waves

This 12-page glossy brochure provides information on what a tsunami is, how fast and how big they can be, what causes them, and describes programs undertaken to mitigate this hazard, including the development of tsunami warning centers, research programmes, and safety rules describing what to do when a tsunami attack your coastline. Tsunami The Great Waves in English was last updated and revised in December, 2014. It is also available in Spanish, French, and Chinese.  It was designed and published by the International Tsunami Information Centre, with support from the UNESCO/IOC Tsunami Programme, the USA (National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration), and France (Laboratoire de Geophysique). *Note: English version high resolution available upon request from ITIC.

Document  Format/Size
English, 2014 UNESDOC
Spanish, 2014 UNESDOC
French, 2012 UNESDOC
Traditional Chinese, 2006 PDF  (3.1 MB)
Simplified Chinese, 2006 PDF  (10.5 MB)

 

 

Tsunami, The Great Waves

The ITIC does make available awareness materials in other electronic formats that allow for easy translation and localization of graphics.  These are in general Microsoft Word files formated so that the text and graphics are separated into separate objects for easy manipulation, editing, and insertion or deleting of text, photos, and graphics.  Please contact the ITIC for more details (itic.tsunami@noaa.gov).