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Heat Wave Expands to the East Coast; Flash Flooding Likely in the Central Plains into the Midwest; Severe Thunderstorms in the Northeast

Dangerous, prolonged heat is ongoing in the Mid-South to Mid-Mississippi Valley and heat expands into the Northeast for a brief period today. Widely scattered instances of flash flooding due to heavy rains are forecast from northeast Kansas to much of Indiana. Scattered strong to severe thunderstorms are possible across parts of New England, northern Mid-Atlantic, and North Dakota. 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).