Welcome to UNSW Australia-Pacific Tsunami Research Centre
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For up-to-date alerts and warnings about tsunami events, please check the following sites
Australia: Joint Australian Tsunami Warning Centre
Pacific Region:Pacific Tsunami Warning Center
Emergency Service information and support during a tsunami event
During a ‘live’ event when Australia is on alert or warning, please refer to your relevant State Emergency Service website for specific instructions.
New South Wales: http://www.ses.nsw.gov.au/
Queensland: http://www.emergency.qld.gov.au/ses/
Victoria: http://www.ses.vic.gov.au
South Australia: http://www.ses.sa.gov.au/site/home.jsp
Western Australia: http://www.fesa.wa.gov.au/
Tasmania: http://www.ses.tas.gov.au/
Northern Territory: http://www.nt.gov.au/pfes/
For media looking for comment on tsunami events, please see our contacts page
About APTRC-NHRL
The Australia-Pacific Tsunami Research Centre and Natural Hazards Research Laboratory (APTRC-NHRL) is a global leader in tsunami research and natural hazards. The centre comprises 18 senior researchers and PhD students examining hazard processes such as earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, landslides, climate change and tropical cyclones and storms.
The APTRC-NHRL uses an innovative coupled human-environment systems' framework to explore the mechanics of hazard processes, their frequency-magnitudes and distributions and the impacts of natural hazard processes on biophysical and human socio-economic systems. This centre is unique in the Australasian region in that it utilises the combined skills of geologists, geographers, engineers, sociologists, policy scientists and ecologists to gain a holistic understanding of the hazards phenomena.
The work of the APTRC-NHRL is globally relevant as research is being used to inform new emergency risk management policy in Australia, Australasia, NW Europe and the USA. Senior staff are recognised global leaders in their fields of expertise. Significant opportunity exists to build further collaboration with research scientists and centres of excellence around the world.
If you are interested in donating to the Australia-Pacific Tsunami Research Centre to help with our current programs, please click the button above. To see about the type of programs we currently undertake, see the research tab at the top for information
Latest news
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What lessons can we learn from the March 11 Japan earthquake and tsunami?
Well, hindsight is a wonderful thing... Read more on this article... 23 March 2011 |
Hanging on the line - risks posed by the Hawaiian "bottleneck" to submarine telecommunications
Located in a major natural hazards zone in the central Pacific, Hawaii is an internationally recognised bottleneck or "choke point" in the global telecommunications network. Any disruption or damage to major submarine cables can have serious consequences by dramatically reducing the flow of information between users. Natural hazard processes, such as tsunami, earthquakes and submarine sediment slides, are a significant threat to this infrastructure as they are capable of damaging or even destroying it, both in deep water and at the coast.
Disaster preparedness: capturing the next generation of cultural memories
The technology of modern media is increasingly accessing all corners of the world and if used wisely can help capture and communicate messages of disaster preparedness. Video interviewing of tsunami survivors is an effective way to collect data that are both educational and scientific. The technique however, is not simple and a best practice protocol is needed to achieve the best results.
Tropical cyclone Yasi and its predecessors
Severe Tropical Cyclone Yasi began developing as a tropical low northwest of Fiji on 29 January 2011 and started tracking on a general westward track. The system quickly intensified to a cyclone category to the north of Vanuatu and was named Yasi at 10pm on 30 January by the Fijian Meteorological Service. Yasi maintained a westward track and rapidly intensified to a category 5 as it accelerated towards the tropical Queensland coast.
