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Mr. Amir YAHAV, Director from the National Emergency Management Authority (NEMA) of Israel  represented ICG/NEAMTWS at the UN Forum on the World Tsunami Awarness Day, 3 November 2016 in New York. He informed the forum regarding the recent accreditation of the four Tsunami Service Providers in the NEAM region. In addition, he elaborated on the end to end tsunami exercise in Israel in April 2016. T...

The Thirteenth Session of the Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System in the North-eastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean and connected seas (ICG/NEAMTWS) was held from 26–28 September 2016, Bucharest and hosted by the National Institute for Earth Physics of Romania. ICG/NEAMTWS XIII marked an important milestone in the development of NEAMTWS. The session ...

Following the 26 December 2004 tsunami in the Indian Ocean, the IOC Member States requested at the 23rd IOC Assembly (June 2005) that warning systems be developed in the Indian Ocean (IOTWS), the Caribbean (CARIBE-EWS) and the North-Eastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean and Connected Seas Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System (NEAMTWS) similar to the Pacific Tsunami Warning System (PTWS). The year 2...

Over the last two years several tsunamis have been recorded in the NEAMTWS region e.g. Aegean Sea (21 July 2017), in Alboran Sea (25 January 2016) and in the Ionian Sea (17 November 2015). Although moderate in size, these events highligh that the tsunami threat in NEAM region is real.For the event of 21 July 2017 a security camera in the port of Kos (Greece) captured the arrival of the first waves...