A
tsunami training workshop was conducted in Kosrae from September 17-19 for
Tsunami threat assessment and decision making.
The trainers were Dr. Laura Kong, Director of the International Tsunami
Information Center in Honolulu; Mr. Charles "Chip" Guard, Warning Coordination
Meteorologist from Guam, Rev. Eden Skilling from the FSM Weather Service and
Mr. Nena William as the Disaster Coord ination Officer for the State of Kosrae.
The
PTWC will give the information and each country should evaluate the need to
evacuate. Kosrae State will be in contact with the FSM Weather Station in
Pohnpei to determine the need to make tsunami warnings. Another tool we got in
the training is a software that give us the location, magnitude and depth of
the earthquakes, to visualize were it was and the potential to generate a
tsunami. With these new products, Kosrae is better prepared to evaluate the need
of evacuation before a tsunami reach the
island.