TWFP Pacific Ocean

Tsunami Warning Focal Points (TWFP):

The 7x24 contact person, or other official point of contact or address, is available at the national level for rapidly receiving and issuing tsunami event information (such as warnings). The Tsunami Warning Focal Point either is the emergency authority (civil defense or other designated agency responsible for public safety), or has the responsibility of notifying the emergency authority of the event characteristics (earthquake and/or tsunami), in accordance with national standard operating procedures. The Tsunami Warning Focal Point receives international tsunami warnings from the PTWC, WC/ATWC, the JMA NWPTAC, or other regional warning centers.

 

AUSTRALIA

TWFP (Validated through diplomatic channels)

Bureau National Operations Centre (BNOC), Bureau of Meteorology (BOM)

BRUNEI DARUSSALAM (Not an IOC Member State)

TWFP (Validated through diplomatic channels)

Brunei Darussalam Meteorological Department

CAMBODIA (Not an IOC Member State)

TWFP (Not validated through diplomatic channels)

Ministry of Water Resources

CANADA

TWFP (PACIFIC) (Not validated through diplomatic channels)

Provincial Emergency Program (PEP)

CHILE

TWFP (Validated through diplomatic channels)

Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service of the Chilean Navy, SHOA

CHINA

TWFP (Validated through diplomatic channels)

National Marine Environmental Forecasting Center

TWFP alternate (Validated through diplomatic channels)

Hong-Kong Observatory

CHINA: HONG KONG

TWFP (Validated through diplomatic channels)

Hong Kong Observatory

COLOMBIA

TWFP (Validated through diplomatic channels)

Dirección General Marítima (Dimar)

COOK ISLANDS

TWFP (Validated through diplomatic channels)

Cook Islands Meteorological Service

COSTA RICA

TWFP (Validated through diplomatic channels)

Comisión Nacional de Prevencion de Riesgos y Atencion de Emergencias

DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF TIMOR-LESTER (EAST TIMOR)

TWFP (Not validated through diplomatic channels)

Department of National Disaster Operation Centre (NDOC)

ECUADOR

TWFP (Validated through diplomatic channels)

Instituto Oceanográfico de la armada del Ecuador: Centro Nacional de Alerta Tsunami, INOCAR

EL SALVADOR

TWFP (Not validated through diplomatic channels)

Centro de Monitoreo de Amenazas Naturales - Ministerio de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (MARN)

FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA - CHUUK (Not an IOC Member State)

TWFP (Not validated through diplomatic channels)

National Weather Service WSO Chuuk

FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA – POHNPEI (Not an IOC Member State)

TWFP (Not validated through diplomatic channels)

National Weather Service WSO Pohnpei

FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA – YAP (Not an IOC Member State)

TWFP (Not validated through diplomatic channels)

National Weather Service WSO Yap

FIJI

TWFP (Not validated through diplomatic channels)

Fiji Meteorological Service

FRANCE - FRENCH POLYNESIA

TWFP (Not validated through diplomatic channels)

Centre Polynésien de Prévention des Tsunamis - Laboratoire de Géophysique (LDG/Pamatai)

TWFP (Not validated through diplomatic channels)

Direction de Defense et de la protection Civile (DDPC)

FRANCE - NOUVELLE CALEDONIE

TWFP (Not validated through diplomatic channels)

Maritime Rescue Coordination Center (MRCC)

TWFP (Not validated through diplomatic channels)

Direction de Defense et de la protection Civile (DDPC)

FRANCE – WALLIS & FUTUNA

TWFP (Not validated through diplomatic channels)

Administration Supérieure des Îles Wallis et Futuna

GUATEMALA

TWFP (Validated through diplomatic channels)  

Instituto Nacional de Sismología Vulcanología (Insuvimeh)

HONDURAS

TWFP (Validated through diplomatic channels)

Comisión Permanente de Contingencias

INDONESIA

TWFP (Not validated through diplomatic channels)

Meteorological Climatological and Geophysical Agency (BMKG)

JAPAN

TWFP (Validated through diplomatic channels)

Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA)

KIRIBATI

TWFP (Validated through diplomatic channels)

Kiribati Meteorological Service (KMS)

MALAYSIA

TWFP (Not validated through diplomatic channels)

Geophysics & tsunami Division - Malaysian Meteorological Department

MARSHALL ISLANDS - KWAJALEIN

TWFP (Not validated through diplomatic channels)

RTS Weather Meteorology Office

MARSHALL ISLANDS - MAJURO (Not an IOC Member State)

TWFP (Not validated through diplomatic channels)

National Weather Service WSO Majuro

MEXICO

TWFP (Validated through diplomatic channels)

Centro de Alerta de Tsunamis, Secretaria de Marina

NAURU (Not an IOC Member State)

TWFP (Validated through diplomatic channels)

Nauru Emergency Services

NEW ZEALAND

TWFP (Not validated through diplomatic channels)

Ministry of Civil Defense and Emergency Management

NICARAGUA

TWFP (Validated through diplomatic channels)

Instituto Nicaragüense de Estudios Territoriales (INETER)

NIUE

TWFP (Not validated through diplomatic channels)

Niue Meteorological Office

PALAU

TWFP (Validated through diplomatic channels)

National Weather Service

PANAMA

TWFP (Validated through diplomatic channels)

Instituto de Geociencias y Sismología de la Universidad de Panamá

PAPUA NEW GUINEA

TWFP (Not validated through diplomatic channels)

Port Moresby Geophysical Observatory

PERU

TWFP (Validated through diplomatic channels)

National Tsunami  Warning Center

PHILIPPINES

TWFP (Not validated through diplomatic channels)

Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology

REPUBLIC OF KOREA (SOUTH)

TWFP (Not validated through diplomatic channels)

National Earthquake Center – Korea Meteorological Administration

RUSSIAN FEDERATION

TWFP (Not validated through diplomatic channels)

Sakhalin Tsunami Warning Center

SAMOA

TWFP (Validated through diplomatic channels)

Meteorology Division, Ministry of Natural Resources & Environment

SINGAPORE

TWFP (Not validated through diplomatic channels)

National Environment Agency (NEA), Meteorological Services Division

SOLOMON ISLANDS

TWFP (Validated through diplomatic channels)

Solomon Islands Meteorological Service (SIMS)

THAILAND

TWFP (Validated through diplomatic channels)

Warning and Dissemination section, National Disaster Warning Center

TOKELAU (UNESCO Associate Member State - Not an IOC Member State)

TWFP (Not validated through diplomatic channels)

Office of the Council for the Ongoing Government of Tokelau

TONGA

TWFP (Validated through diplomatic channels)

Tonga Meteorological Service

TUVALU

TWFP (Not validated through diplomatic channels)

Tuvalu Meteorological Service

UNITED KINGDOM

TWFP (Not validated through diplomatic channels)

DFID Humanitarian Operations

UNITED STATES

TWFP (Validated through diplomatic channels)

Pacific Tsunami Warning Center

UNITED STATES - MIDWAY ISLANDS

TWFP (Not validated through diplomatic channels)

Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge

UNITED STATES - WAKE ISLANDS

TWFP (Not validated through diplomatic channels)

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - WAKE ISLAND

VANUATU

TWFP (Validated through diplomatic channels)

Department of Meteorology and Geohazards

VIETNAM

TWFP & TNC (Validated through diplomatic channels)

Institute of Geophysics - Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology

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