On the occasion of the World Tsunami Awareness Day 2021 (World Tsunami Awareness Day) promoted by the United Nations General Assembly, the INGV Tsunami Alert Center (CAT-INGV) researchers will realize various products and multidisciplinary activities:
- an exercise promoted by the ChEESE project to show the potential of High-Performance Computing applied to probabilistic hazard forecasts. In particular, it will test Urgent Computing, for rapid post event assessment.
- The Story Map: "A journey through the tsunamis of the Mediterranean Sea. From 365 A.D. to today: an interactive path to tell the tsunamis occurred in the Mediterranean Sea". Through photos, videos, texts and interactive links, you can discover the historical and more recent tsunamis occurred in the Mediterranean Sea.
- A new video from the Municipality of Minturno (Italy), involved since last year in applying to become a "Tsunami Ready" community, a UNESCO program to promote tsunami risk preparedness, will be published.
- The CAT-INGV will also participate in the exercise organized by the Malta Civil Protection in collaboration with the European Union's Joint Research Center (JRC). The CAT will provide the alert messaging for a tsunamigenic seismic event, taking as reference the scenario of the exercise NEAMWave21 (an earthquake of magnitude 7.9 in the Ionian Sea).
The activities will involve many countries of the Mediterranean area, the Tsunami Service Providers of the ICG/NEAMTWS active in the Eastern Mediterranean (Greece, Italy, Turkey), and the Civil Protection authorities, including the Italian National Department that has contributed in recent years to the development of the Tsunami Alert Center of INGV.