CENALT (CENtre d’Alerte aux Tsunamis) is the French National Tsunami Warning Centre (NTWC) acting ...
North-Eastern Atlantic, Mediterranean and connected seas
Tsunami Information Centre
France
What is NEAMTWS
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
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...
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 |
- Sources :
- 1 Wikipedia
- 2 Prevention web
- 3 UN Data
- * The World factbook
Awareness and Education Materials
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