Tsunami exercises are conducted to strengthen tsunami preparedness along US coasts. Historical tsunami records from sources such as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) show that tsunamis have impacted US coasts several times in the past century. Exercising emergency response plans is thus an important part of tsunami preparedness. A lesson learned from the destructive 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami is that even areas rarely impacted by tsunamis can suffer tremendous damage and casualties if the people that live and/or travel in these areas are not prepared. NOAA and the National Tsunami Hazard Mitigation Program (NTHMP) are providing the framework for these exercises in order to encourage coastal emergency responders to test and update their tsunami response plans, especially at the local levels.
For more information on US Tsunami Exercise scenarios, please visit the US National Tsunami Hazard Mitigation Program (NTHMP) Tsunami Exercises page.
Link is https://nws.weather.gov/nthmp/tsunamiexercises.html
LANTEX Exercise Documents
Document Title | Year | Format/Size |
LANTEX 09 Exercise Manual (Scenario: N of Puerto Rico) | 2009 | PDF (2.10 MB) |
LANTEX 10 Exercise Manual (Scenario: NE of United States) | 2010 | PDF (3.78 MB) |
Joint CARIBE WAVE 11 / LANTEX 11 Exercise Manual (Scenario: Virgin Isl.) |
2011 | PDF (1.00 MB) |
Joint CARIBE WAVE 11 / LANTEX 11 Exercise Circular Letter 2363 | 2011 | PDF (78.5 KB) |
Joint CARIBE WAVE 13 / LANTEX 13 Exercise Manual (Scenario: north of Venezuela) |
2013 | PDF (3.60 MB) |
LANTEX 14 Exercise Manual (Scenario: Gulf of Mexico, landslide) | 2014 | PDF (2.59 MB) |
LANTEX 15 Exercise Manual (Scenario: Florida) | 2015 | PDF (2.92 MB) |
LANTEX 16 Exercise Manual (Scenario: S of Halifax, Nova Scotia) | 2016 | PDF (7.02 MB) |
LANTEX 17 Exercise Manual (Scenario: Southwest of Lisbon, Portugal) | 2017 | PDF (2.39 MB) |
LANTEX 18 Exercise Manual (Scenario: Massachusetts) | 2018 | PDF (2.55 MB) |
LANTEX 19 Exercise Manual (Scenario: Northwest of Mayaguez, Puerto Rico) | 2019 | PDF (3.76 MB) |
LANTEX 20 Exercise Manual (Scenario: Lisbon, Portugal) | 2020 |
PACIFEX Exercise Documents
Document Title | Year | Format/Size |
PACIFEX 10 Exercise Manual (Scenario: Aleutian Islands) | 2010 | PDF (1.68 MB) |
PACIFEX 11 Exercise Manual (Scenario: Cascadia Subduction Zone) | 2011 | PDF (3.87 MB) |
PACIFEX 12 Exercise Manual (Scenario: Alaska) | 2012 | PDF (6.00 MB) |
PACIFEX 13 Exercise Manual (Scenario: Marianas Trench) | 2013 | PDF (3.30 MB) |
PACIFEX 14 Exercise Manual (Scenario: S of Alaska Peninsula) | 2014 | PDF (6.87 MB) |
PACIFEX 15 Exercise Manual (Scenario: E of the Kamchatka peninsula) | 2015 | PDF (5.82 MB) |
PACIFEX 17 Exercise Manual (Scenario: Vancouver) | 2017 | PDF (4.86 MB) |
PACIFEX 18 Exercise Manual (Scenario: Aleutian Islands) | 2018 | PDF (3.15 MB) |
PACIFEX 19 Exercise Manual (Scenario: Northern Mariana Trench) | 2019 | PDF (4.06 MB) |
PACIFEX 20 Exercise Manual (Scenario: Vancouver Island) | 2020 |