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Commemorating the WTAD, 5 November 2020 in NEAM region: See recent news for more details.
ICG/NEAMTWS-XVI Session, 2-4 December Cannes, France
Bodrum–Kos (Turkey–Greece) Mw 6.6 earthquake and tsunami of 21 July 2017. See recent news below. Credit: NOA and JRC
Four Tsunami Service Providers received Certificate of Accreditation at the 29th Session of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) Assembly, 27 June 2017

Recent News

Emerging Pilot Tsunami Ready Initiatives: Italy’s Civil Protection Council of Ministers establishes the Italian National Tsunami Ready Board, a first...

Tuesday, 15 June 2021

Emerging Pilot Tsunami Ready Initiatives: Italy’s Civil Protection Council of Ministers establishes the Italian National Tsunami Ready Board, a first in NEAM Region To better prepare for tsunamis, there is a need to focus on tsunami education as much as early warning facilities and systems. Currently, there are no established community tsunami recognition programmes in the North-Eastern Atlantic ...

ECO Magazine UN Decade Article: Safer Coastal Zones by 2030

Tuesday, 29 June 2021

The Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the North-eastern Atlantic, Mediterranean and Connected Seas Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System (ICG/NEAMTWS) has contributed an article to the ECO Magazine on the Ocean Decade societal outcome: Safe Ocean. The article highlights key achievements, gaps, challenges and opportunities in tsunami risk mitigation in the NEAM region. It also has the aim ...

Working Together Towards Community Tsunami Ready in the NEAM Region

Monday, 12 July 2021

The newly created Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the North-eastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean and Connected Seas Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System (ICG/NEAMTWS) Group on Tsunami Ready co-chaired by Areti Plessa (Greece) and Cecilia Valbonesi (Italy), held its second meeting on 30 June. France, Italy and Spain reported gradual but incremental progress in initiating pilot Tsunami Read...

Italy launches new sea level observation network to help enhance the detection, monitoring of tsunamis, and other sea level hazards...

Monday, 23 August 2021

The National Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA) launched in May 2021, within the SiAM- Italian National Alert System for Tsunamis framework, a program for enhancing the implementation of high precision and high-frequency long wave measurement network with the installation of six new stations for sea-level measurement able to withstand severe operating conditions. The new s...

Newly approved IOC-UNESCO and European Union Project is seeking for an Associate Project Officer and Project Assistant

Wednesday, 25 August 2021

Overview of the Project The Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO will implement the project: Strengthening the Resilience of Coastal Communities in the North East Atlantic, Mediterranean Region (NEAM) to the Impact of Tsunamis and Other Sea Level-Related Coastal Hazards. A project financially supported by the European Union. The main objective of the project will be to strength...

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