NASA Disasters Program and Pacific Disaster Center (PDC) bring together world-class scientists and leading industry experts to develop new global landslide and flood modeling capabilities.

PDC developed the scenario, script, and communications for an 18-country exercise based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, using its early warning, hazard monitoring, and decision support platform, DisasterAWARE.

The Pacific Disaster Center (PDC), ASEAN Centre for Humanitarian Assistance (AHA Centre) and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) member states are coming together to build disaster resilience throughout the region.

PDC’s Executive Director, Ray Shirkhodai, discussed the role of AI at the ASEAN Workshop on Disaster Reporting and Big Data for Disaster Management.

National Disaster Preparedness Baseline Assessments (NDPBA) kickoff events were held in Argentina, Paraguay, Indonesia, Philippines, Panama, Trinidad and Tobago, Belize, and Sierra Leone.

Myanmar and PDC hold a kick off meeting to build disaster monitoring and early warning capacity by leveraging AHA Centre’s DMRS system.

DisasterAWARE users select the areas and hazards to monitor and alerts are sent for threats within or approaching those areas.

PDC supported 10 major disaster preparedness exercises involving more than 35 countries and seven relief organizations.

The 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang relied on DisasterAWARE to support public safety with a single platform for information sharing.

PDC finished National Disaster Preparedness Baseline Assessments (NDPBA) in Dominican Republic, Honduras, Guatemala and Nicaragua.

Evaluation findings will support member states in disaster risk reduction initiatives throughout the region.

Pacific Disaster Center and AHA Centre formalize long-standing partnership, sign Memorandum of Intent to strengthen the two centers’ ongoing partnership in advancing disaster risk reduction and regional cooperation.

PDC teams up with FEMA and other federal, local, and international authorities to create hundreds of analytical products and official reports to aid responders with the most severe, back-to-back month of Atlantic hurricanes on record.

PDC continues to expand international support, producing 450-plus analytical products to guide life-saving activities supporting preparations, response, and recovery for more than 63 major hazards worldwide.

PDC provides real-time analysis of potential impacts, needs, and damages as Category 5 Hurricane Matthew makes its way across the Caribbean and into the U.S. east coast of Florida.

PDC and Nepal agree to NepalAWARE project, a new DisasterAWARE-based system to aid the government with disaster risk reduction goals and increasing national capacity as well as decision-making effectiveness.

New features include touch friendly interface, compatibility with mobile devices, offline mode, bookmark sharing, data file exchange, user data imports, Hazus model advancements, wildfire warnings, and more.

PDC helps public safety agencies utilize DisasterAWARE capabilities during the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics, providing a common operating picture and platform for sharing information as thousands of visitors flooded into the city.

PDC helps government and health agencies track and coordinate response to the spread of the Zika virus during the 2016 Rio De Janiero Olympics when an explosive outbreak spread through the region.

As the Philippines begins development of a new disaster recovery facility—the product of public-private partnerships to increase resilience—PDC has been identified to provide DisasterAWARE-based technology to support operations.

PDC collaborates with numerous agencies worldwide, creating 400-plus analytical products to assist humanitarian relief during numerous cyclones, earthquakes, floods, and volcanic eruptions.

PDC assists with capacity building initiative, helping ASEAN establish minimum standards and curricula for training in specific areas of disaster management.

PDC and APEC team up to collaborate on two separate workshops aimed at strengthening the capacity of APEC economies to mitigate disasters and map hazards for supply chain resilience.

PDC produces hundreds of analytical products, including initial damage and needs assessments, risk and vulnerability reports, and other decision making tools to aid search, rescue, and relief efforts.

Eleven major exercises are supported by PDC at home and abroad. Locations include Haiti, Honduras, U.S. National Capital Region, California, Guam/Marianas, Philippines, Hawaii, and Caribbean.

National Disaster Preparedness Baseline Assessment (NDPBA) provides scientific report and 5-year plan to help Honduras, Guatemala, Dominican Republic, and Jamaica prioritize actions to reduce risk and improve resilience.

New system, based on Pacific Disaster Center’s DisasterAWARE platform, strengthens Vietnam’s early warning capacity, hazard monitoring, and disaster risk reduction capacity.

PDC partners with Centers for Disease Control, the World Health Organization, and other agencies to release new DisasterAWARE technology to help map the outbreak of diseases, population distribution, and related information.

Government of Nepal tests disaster response plans using DisasterAWARE as part of joint partnership with PDC to build its National Disaster Response Framework (NDRF).

PDC provides analytical products and DisasterAWARE technology during worldwide hazards including an Ebola outbreak, Atlantic and Pacific tropical cyclones and typhoons, earthquakes in Chile and the U.S., and many more.

PDC helps strengthen regional collaboration between Central American and Caribbean nations during full-scale disaster preparedness exercises simulating realistic hazard events.

Indonesia boosts early warning, hazard monitoring, and disaster risk reduction capacities, launches InAWARE system based on PDC's DisasterAWARE platform.

PDC is sponsored as speaker at United Nations Initiative on Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM) Conference.

The National Disaster Preparedness Baseline Assessment (NDPBA) program is launched starting with the governments of Peru and El Salvador. Scientific assessment identifies components of disaster risk and includes a 5-year plan to achieve DRR goals.

Workshop designed to strengthen participants’ abilities to understand, collect, analyze, and use geospatial information in support of disaster management-related decision making.

PDC presents at Capacity Building Forum attended by UNISDR, World Food Programme, and other international organizations.

PDC begins devlopment of InAWARE, Indonesia's version of DisasterAWARE, for disaster management early warning and decision support for Indonesia’s national disaster management agency BNPB.

USAID supports Phase 2 PDC-Vietnam VinAWARE project, based on PDC’s DisasterAWARE platform, to continue disaster risk reduction and expand web-accessible decision support capabilities.

PDC presents at UNOCHA Workshop on Strengthening Disaster Preparedness and Response Capacity in the Asia-Pacific Region.

PDC provides real-time situational analysis before, during and after impact of global disasters including M8.6 earthquake in Indonesia, tropical cyclones throughout the Atlantic and Pacific, Dengue fever outbreak and global flooding crises.

PDC provides real-time situational analysis of destructive Category 3 Hurricane Sandy.

For the first time, PDC is named project manager to manage requests during activation of International Charter supporting response to Super Typhoon Bopha.

A new Disaster Monitoring and Response System (DMRS) is launched in collaboration with PDC and the ASEAN Committee on Disaster Management (ACDM) for the AHA Centre.

PDC monitors and supports response, relief, and recovery for Pacific, Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico cyclones, earthquakes in Chile and Peru, volcanic eruption in Iceland, and global flooding to name a few.

Capacity-building project aims to help disaster management practitioners and senior decision makers understand hazard exposure, to prepare for disasters, and reduce disaster risk.

PDC partners with other worldwide organizations to support Haiti with tracking of the Cholera epidemic using DisasterAWARE one year following catastrophic earthquake.

PDC provides critical decision support tools to aid humanitarian relief for typhoons in the Philippines and Taiwan, Vanuatu earthquake, cyclones in The Bahamas, and the catastrophic Haiti earthquake.

PDC provides long-term and wide-ranging support campaign for the devastating 2010 earthquake in Haiti. PDC provides impact, damage, and needs assessments as well as extensive situational analysis for relief workers.

PDC launches the first version of the Disaster Alert mobile app, a multi-hazard mobile application for alerting the public of global hazards and helping people stay safe anytime, anywhere around the world.

PDC teamed up with international responders to assist with Swine Flu tracking products, U.N. aid to Manila following Typhoon Ketsan, and a M7.9 earthquake that hit Sumatra, Indonesia to name only a few.

PDC-Vietnam flood modeling and early warning capacity pilot project kicked off in Vietnam.

The week-long workshop was designated among the five top priority training activities under the ASEAN program for regional capacity building under the Hyogo Framework for Action.

PDC co-chairs conference on APEC preparedness, attended by 21 member-economies and key senior officials—representing 41 percent of the world's population and 55 percent of its GDP.

PDC provides several analytical and geospatial products to support public safety initiatives during 2008 Beijing Olympics.

PDC supports exercise to deal with Avian Influenza Pandemic, and assists with response efforts for Solomon Islands tsunami, devastating floods in Vietnam, and M8.4 earthquake in Indonesia.

PDC provides response support services and products to aid relief efforts after a magnitude 8.4 earthquake strikes the Indian Ocean near Sumatra.

PDC collaborates with Vietnam on custom DisasterAWARE hazard monitoring prototype for future disaster center.

The University of Hawai‘i becomes the Managing Partner of PDC with a new strategic vision for providing global disaster management tools, datasets, and support capabilities.

PDC provides support following the Kiholo Bay Earthquake, just west of the Big Island of Hawaii, Hawaiian island flash flooding, Philippines Leyte landslide disaster, Central Pacific Cyclones , and numerous other hazards.

PDC hosts international forum, Mega Disasters–A Global Tipping Point in Natural Disaster Policy, Planning, and Development, attended by NOAA, UNOCHA, ASEAN, and officials from the U.S. and numerous Pacific nations.

“We are now providing early warning systems in Southeast Asia for tsunamis. They didn’t go to Moscow. They didn’t go to Beijing. They didn’t go to Washington or Paris. They came here because we have the expertise. Now, PDC is worldwide.”

U.S. Trade and Development Agency funds technical assistance for PDC to establish tsunami early warning capabilities for the Kingdom of Thailand.

PDC provides Risk and Vulnerability Assessments in American Samoa, Marikina City and Metro Manila, Philippines, and for other Pacific Island nations.

PDC collaborates with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, resulting in the creation of an unprecedented 10-nation Disaster Information Sharing and Communication Network (ASEAN DISCNet).

Response and relief agencies leverage newly developed PDC products and processes—based on work originally done for Hawaii—to support response and humanitarian relief during and after Hurricane Katrina.

PDC develops a “Tsunami Awareness Kit” to help with community awareness and preparedness about tsunamis for Pacific Island nations.

Asia Pacific Natural Hazards Information Network is created as a means of locating high-quality geospatial information and making it available for humanitarian assistance missions.

PDC aids international relief efforts following Indian Ocean Tsunami and discussions ensue about a PDC-developed early-warning system for Indonesia.

PDC's first edition of a DisasterAWARE web-based system is released (formerly the Asia Pacific Natural Hazards and Vulnerabilities Atlas), providing a dynamic picture of hazards online.

PDC releases a new DisasterAWARE integrated decision support system (formerly called IDSS). System is deployed first in the Caribbean in collaboration with CDEMA.

Professional journal Disaster Prevention and Management, points to PDC technology as a model worth examining, targeting disaster managers and decision makers in the UK and Europe.

Web-enabled application (EWS) integrates newly developed weather data from NOAA, NASA, and State of Hawaii sources, as well as highly advanced data visualizations for its time.

PDC partners with the Center for Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance to present the Asia Pacific Disaster Conference, attended by 200 disaster responders worldwide, including the United Nations.

PDC expands disaster information management supporting mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery decision support beyond U.S. borders for humanitarian assistance throughout the Pacific.

PDC-developed technology is recognized in white papers and state legislatures as a model system for other states to emulate.

“We have satellites roaming space, and now what this Center will do is bring them all together..use the high-technology that we have set aside to prevent wars...and join to prevent disasters.”

Conceptual framework, legislation, and budget is allocated to begin development of the Center on the Hawaiian island of Maui. Technology development begins with Hawaii State Civil Defense in Oahu.

The United States Congress debates need for a high-tech center devoted to reducing the impacts of disasters in Hawaii and approves the center in 1993.

Senate Appropriations Committee discussions, led by Senator Daniel K. Inouye, call for better systems of communication and a technology center to improve disaster safety in Hawaii.

With sustained winds initially estimated at 140 miles per hour, storm leaves more than 14,350 homes damaged or destroyed and causes over US$3 billion in damage across the State of Hawaii.