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France

NEAMTWS

Member States

According to Resolution XXIII-14 membership in ICG/NEAMTWS includes:

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Working Groups and Task Teams

The Intergovernmental Coordination Group meets regularly to establish and implement working plans in the NEAM region. To address specific technical issues (

What is the ICG/NEAMTWS

The Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Tsunami Early Warning and Mitigation System in the North-eastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean and conne...

ICG/NEAMTWS Sessions

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Secretariat

The Secretariat of the ICG/NEAMTWS is based in the IOC/UNESCO
7 Place de Fontenoy
Paris 
France 

 

The Technical Secretary is Mr

General Information

The Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Tsunami Early Warning and Mitigation System in the North-eastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean and connected seas (ICG/NEAMTWS) was formed in response...

Tsunami Service Provider (TSPs)

  • Collection, record, processing and analysis of earthquake data for the rapid initial assessment (locate the earthquake, the depth, the magnitude, the origin time) as a basis for the alert sy...

France

CENALT

CENALT (CENtre d’Alerte aux Tsunamis) is the French National Tsunami Warning Centre (NTWC) acting ...

Greece

NOA

NOA (National Observatory of Athens) is the Hellenic National Tsunami Warning Centre (NTWC) acting as...

Italy

CAT-INGV

The recently established CAT (Centro di Allerta Tsunami) at Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV) will be part of the Italian National Tsunami Warn...

Turkey

KOERI

KOERI (Kandilli Observatory and Earthquak...

Portugal

IPMA

IPMA is the Portuguese Sea and Atmosphere Institute (Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera).

It is a public institution, part of the indirect administrati...

Partner Institutions

European Commission Directorate General Humanitarian Aid & Civil Protection

Member States

Partner Institutions

Country Information
Location 48°51.4′N 2°21.05'E1
Area 551,500 km2 3
Coastline 4,853 km*
Climate France has four broad climatic zones: the humid seaboard zone west of the line Bayonne-Lille with cool summers; a semi-continental zone with cold winters and hot summers in Alsace-Lorraine, along the rhodanian corridor and in the mountainous massifs (Alps, Pyrenees, Massif Central); an intermediate zone with cold winters and hot summers in the North, the Paris region and the central region; and a Mediterranean zone with mild winters and quite hot summers in the south of France.
Terrain  
Population 63,937,0003 
Official Languages French1
Natural Hazards Storm and flood2
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