Palau Tsunami Warning and Preparedness - Palau Tsunami Ready
Palau Tsunami Ready
Workshop
19 - 20 January 2026
Palau
Organiser(s) & Staff
Participation
In order to sustain and strengthen tsunami warning and preparedness in the Republic of the Palau, NOAA will facilitate a strengthening workshop with the Weather Service Office Palau (WSO) and the National Emergency Management Office (NEMO) on January 21 to 23, 2026. The workshop will review and update the existing Palau tsunami documents. The Group will also review their response and highlight challenges from the 2023 and 2025 off-Philippines, the 29 Jul 2025 Kamchatka tsunami and earlier events, where an evacuation was not required but there was potentially still a danger. Based on these events, it is suggested to establish Palau Tsunami Advisory level language, which will be a lower level of warning. The Palau Tsunami Advisory language is recommended when the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) or the Japan Northwest Pacific Tsunami Advisory Center (NWPTAC) issues an International Threat Message with a forecast tsunami wave amplitude between 0.3 and 1 meter. The product informs the public of actions to take, including to stay out of the water due to potentially strong currents or unusual waves. Participants are expected to be operational staff from the WSO Palau and Palau NEMO.
[View an annotated printable version of this agenda]
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| 2 | Hazard Assessment and Inundation Modeling of Palau (NOAA PMEL, draft, 2024) | 21/01/26 |
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| 2 | Palau – Tsunami Hazards | 23/01/26 |
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| 3.1 | PTWC products training videos | 16/01/26 |
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| 3.1 | PTWC Enhanced Products Guidance | 16/01/26 |
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| 3.2 | Users’ Guide for the Northwest Pacific Tsunami Advisory Center (NWPTAC) (IOC TS 142, 2019) - Eng | 12/01/26 |
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| 3.2 | NWPTAC Introduction | 23/01/26 |
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| 4.1 | Review – 2 Dec 2023, Philippines WSO Decision-making challenges | 23/01/26 |
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| 4.2 | PTWC Response as a PTWS TSP Kamchatka Tsunami of July 29, 2025 | 23/01/26 |
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| 5 | Palau National Tsunami Support Plan (2015) | 21/01/26 |
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| 5 | WSO Palau Distant Tsunami Procedures | 21/01/26 |
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| 5.4 | Palau Example Messages from Guam Messages | 23/01/26 |
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| Provisional Agenda Palau Tsunami Ready | 21/01/2026 |
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Created at 17:02 on 08 Jan 2026 by Bernardo Aliaga Rossel
Last Updated at 22:46 on 22 Jan 2026 by Tammy Fukuji