Membership

Membership of the ICG/PTWS:

Member States of the IOC within and bordering the Pacific Ocean and adjacent seas;

Observers from other IOC Member States.

Pacific Rim Member States (27):

Brunei Darusalaam, Cambodia *, Canada, Chile – including Easter Island and Juan Fernandez Islands, China - mainland, Hong Kong, Macau, Colombia, Costa Rica, Democratic Republic of Korea +, Ecuador – including Galapagos Islands, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru,  Philippines, Republic of Korea, Russian Federation, Singapore, Thailand, Timor-Leste, United States of America – including States, Territories of American Samoa and Guam, Commonwealth of Northern Mariana, Islands, and US Minor Outlying Islands (Baker, Howland, Jarvis, Johnston, Kingman Reef, Midway, Palmyra, Wake), Vietnam

Pacific Island Member States (19)

Australia– including Territory of Norfolk, Coral Sea, Cook Islands (free association New Zealand), Fiji, France – French Polynesia, New Caledonia,Wallis and Futuna, Kiribati – Gilbert, Phoenix, Christmas, Marshall Islands (free association USA) – Kwajalein, Majuro *, Micronesia,Federated States of (free association USA) * – Chuuk, Kosrae, Pohnpei, Yap, Nauru *, New Zealand – including Kermadec Islands, Niue (free association New Zealand), Palau (free association USA), Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, UK – Pitcairn, Vanuatu

All countries, except Democratic Republic of Korea, have provided Tsunami Warning Focal Point and Tsunami National Contact information. Cambodia, Federated States of Micronesia, Marshall Islands, Nauru, and Tokelau are Associate Member States of the IOC.

ICG/PTWS Member States with formal official designations (bold): 25

Member States that are not IOC Member States marked with *: 4

Member States with no recent information marked with +: 1

Invited observers from other organizations (including NGOs), programmes and projects, in accordance with the IOC rules and procedures:

Comisión Permanente del Pacífico Sur (CPPS), 

 Centro de Coordinación para la Prevención de los Desastres Naturales en América Central (CEPREDENAC), 

International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) Tsunami Commission, Pacific Community (SPC), 

Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP), 

ASEAN Regional Programme on Disaster Management (ARPDM), 

Asian Disaster Reduction Center (ADRC), 

Comité Andino para la Prevención y Atención de Desastres (CAPRADE), 

World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Region IV (North America, Central America and the Caribbean), 

WMO Focal Point for GTS/Tsunami, 

UNISDR Regional Office for Asia-Pacific and Regional Office for Latin America and Caribbean