Description: International Tsunami Information Center
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ITIC Training Program Summary, 2005 - 2023 (click to download list)
As part of its mandate and functions under IOC Resolution X-23 (1977), the ITIC assists countries in establishing warning centers and improving tsunami preparedness, and for decades has annually conducted a training program. As an international center, ITIC also works to monitor and improve warning services globally, and serves as an information resource for tsunami events (with WDC-MGG tsunamis), clearinghouse for education and awareness materials, and encourages research that will improve mitigation prac
The ITIC Training Program consists of a Hawaii-based training ( ITP-Hawaii ) where Hawaii is used as a working example of an end-to-end system of warning, response, and preparedness for both distant and local tsunamis, and an International training ( ITP-International ) where ITIC organizes a regional or country-specific training. In 2018, the ITP-Hawaii took place in Chile and used Chile as the working example of the end-to-end system - the 1st time it has been conducted outside of Hawaii. In 2019, the I