Tsunami public education resources

We're encouraging civil defence emergency management groups, partner agencies and organisations to get involved and promote awareness of the right action to take before, during and after a tsunami. Use the resources and information below and help prepare New Zealand for a tsunami.

Earthquake

Tsunami

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Earthquake

• Drop, cover, hold fact sheet (.pdf 2mb)
• Te Reo version - Drop, cover, hold fact sheet (.pdf 101kb)
• Drop, cover, hold press ad (.pdf 733kb)

Earthquake posters

• Drop, cover, hold A4 (.pdf 329kb)
• Drop, cover, hold A3 (.pdf 539kb)
• Drop, cover, hold A2 (.pdf 895kb)
• Drop, cover, hold A1 (.pdf 1.7mb)
• Drop, cover, hold A0 (.pdf 3.4mb)
• Drop, cover, hold Adshell (.pdf 956kb)

Earthquake videos

• When You're Driving
• If You're Near a Sturdy Desk or Table
• If There's NO Sturdy Desk or Table
• If You're in a Stadium or Theatre
• If You're Near the Shore

Earthquake digital banner

• Earthquake animated digital banner HTML (300x250) (.zip 128kb)
• Earthquake animated digital banner (300x250) (.gif 6.2mb)

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Tsunami

• Long or Strong: Get Gone fact sheet (.pdf 1.9mb)
• Te Reo version - Tsunami fact sheet (.pdf 93kb)
• Long or Strong: Get Gone press ad (.pdf 766kb)

Long or Strong: get Gone posters

• Long or Strong: Get Gone A4 (.pdf 313kb)
• Long or Strong: Get Gone A3 (.pdf 502kb)
• Long or Strong: Get Gone A2 (.pdf 897kb)
• Long or Strong: Get Gone A1 (.pdf 1.7mb)
• Long or Strong: Get Gone A0 (.pdf 3.1mb)
• Long or Strong: Get Gone Adshell (.pdf 798kb)

Tsunami radio advertisement

Tsunami radio advertisement/public announcement (.mp3 1.2mb)

Tsunami digital banner

• Tsunami animated digital banner HTML (300x250) (.zip 164kb)
• Tsunami animated digital banner (300x250) (.gif 4.1mb)

Tsunami 101 posters

• What is a tsunami? (.pdf 121kb)
• Where do tsunami come from? (.pdf 141kb)
• How a tsunami happens (.pdf 173kb)
• What’s the big deal? (.pdf 153kb)
• It happens here…(.pdf 94kb)
• How tsunami warnings work (.pdf 103kb)
• Types of tsunami warnings (.pdf 90kb)
• Tsunami survival (.pdf 42kb)

Social Media Shareables

We've developed a series of facebook and twitter posts that can be shared to help explain tsunami. Each post has an image that goes with it. Take a look! 

• Social media content (text and links)
• Social media image - what is a tsunami
• Social media image - Where do tsunami come from?
• Social media image - How a tsunami happens
• Social media image - What’s the big deal?
• Social media image - It happens here….
• Social media image - informal tsunami warnings
• Social media image - official tsunami warnings
• Social media image - natural tsunami warnings
• Social media image - Tsunami survival before a tsunami
• Social media image - Tsunami survival during a tsunami
• Social media image - Tsunami survival after a tsunami

Working towards tsunami safer early learning services and schools

This guide provides consistent advice and resources for a Civil Defence Emergency Management (CDEM) Group to use when providing technical guidance and support to early learning services and schools to become tsunami safer. It was developed by the East Coast Lab together with the Ministry of Education, Tairāwhiti Civil Defence Emergency Management Group, Hawke’s Bay Civil Defence Emergency Management Group, Manawatu-Wanganui Civil Defence Emergency Management Group, Wellington Region Emergency Management Office, GNS Science and Massey University.

• Working towards tsunami safer early learning services and schools toolbox (.pdf 3.2mb)

Information sheets:

1. Whakamahere Planning (.pdf 207kb)
2. Ngā whakatūpato Hazards, warnings & impacts (.pdf 370kb)
3. Ngā tikanga whakawātea Evacuations (.pdf 342kb)
4. Ngā āheinga Practice drills (.pdf 533kb)
5. Te whakawhitiwhiti kōrero Communication (.pdf 532kb)
6. Ngā whānau pāhekoheko Family reunification (.pdf 473kb)
7. Te whakaora Recovery (.pdf 882kb)
8. He papa pātai: Ara manaaki Frequently Asked Questions: Duty of care (.pdf 200kb)

Te Hīkoi a Rūaumoko - Rūaumoko's Walk

Te Hīkoi a Rūaumoko - Rūaumoko's Walk is a bi-lingual children’s book based on Kahungunu legends and dialect telling the story of what to do in an earthquake with a subsequent tsunami threat. It was developed by representatives from the Hawke's Bay offices of Civil Defence and Emergency Management, Ministry of Education and Te Puni Kōkiri, Ngāti Kahungunu Iwi Incorporated, Te Ūranga Waka at the Eastern Institute of Technology and Kahungunu Kōhanga Reo Tari.

The book is supported by a one-page education providers emergency planning template and a whānau activity sheet.

• Te Hīkoi a Rūaumoko - Rūaumoko's Walk (.pdf 7.7mb)
• Education providers one page plan (.pdf 821kb)
• Whānau activity sheet (.pdf 4.2mb)

Watch the moving story book on Youtube:

• Te Hīkoi a Rūaumoko Moving Story on YouTube (Māori version)
• Rūaumokos Walk Moving Story on YouTube (English version)

Useful Tsunami Materials

What is a Tsunami  – National Emergency Management Agency general resource

Explains the science of Tsunami in detail http://www.civildefence.govt.nz/assets/Uploads/exercises/Tangaroa/what-is-a-tsunami-fact-sheet.pdf

Tsunami preparedness – National Emergency Management Agency preparedness

Information of tsunami warnings, and advice on what to do before, during and after

http://getthru.govt.nz/disasters/tsunami/

Tsunamis in NZ – GNS Science Risk of Tsunamis in NZ

Short summary of NZ’s vulnerability to tsunamis including historical tsunami

http://www.gns.cri.nz/Home/Our-Science/Natural-Hazards/Tsunami/Tsunami-in-New-Zealand

Tsunami science - GNS Science general resource

GNS’s accumulation of Tsunami science and research – modelling, monitoring, reports and background

http://www.gns.cri.nz/Home/Learning/Science-Topics/Tsunami

Tsunami: When minutes count – National Emergency Management Agency tsunami survival stories

Survivors stories (video) from the 2009 September tsunami

http://www.civildefence.govt.nz/cdem-sector/public-education/public-education-resources/tsunami-when-minutes-count/

The Tsunami that washed time away –Ministry of Education  teachers resource

Focuses on researching an historic Tsunami in Henderson Bay in Northland

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1MDp6ZpUHK3podtLNbkElVEBkJB6OSBFImZKTzUt3McY/present?slide=id.g4fa1b1299_00

Tsunami Resource for Kids  - National Emergency Management Agency resource for kids

Preparedness messages specifically for children.

http://www.whatstheplanstan.govt.nz/tsunami

Cascadia Rising (US Tsunami Exercise)

Example of how Tsunami Exercise public education has been done in the US

https://www.fema.gov/vi/media-library/assets/documents/116120

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Translated Resources

ARABIC Drop, cover, hold fact sheet (.pdf 144kb)

ARABIC Tsunami fact sheet (.pdf 133kb)

BISLAMA Drop, cover, hold fact sheet (.pdf 104kb)

BISLAMA Tsunami fact sheet (.pdf 95kb)

BURMESE Drop, cover, hold fact sheet (.pdf 139kb)

BURMESE Tsunami fact sheet (.pdf 171kb)

SIMPLIFIED CHINESE Drop, cover, hold fact sheet (.pdf 170kb)

SIMPLIFIED CHINESE Tsunami fact sheet (.pdf 144kb)

TRADITIONAL CHINESE Drop, cover, hold fact sheet (.pdf 163kb)

TRADITIONAL CHINESE Tsunami fact sheet (.pdf 162kb)

COOK ISLAND MAORI Drop, cover, hold fact sheet (.pdf 103kb)

COOK ISLAND MAORI Tsunami fact sheet (.pdf 86kb)

FIJIAN Drop, cover, hold fact sheet (.pdf 91kb)

FIJIAN Tsunami fact sheet (.pdf 82kb)

GUJARATI Drop, cover, hold fact sheet (.pdf 140kb)

GUJARATI Tsunami fact sheet (.pdf 146kb)

HINDI Drop, cover, hold fact sheet (.pdf 405kb)

HINDI Tsunami fact sheet (.pdf 188kb)

JAPANESE Drop, cover, hold fact sheet (.pdf 137kb)

JAPANESE Tsunami fact sheet (.pdf 120kb)

KOREAN Drop, cover, hold fact sheet (.pdf 134kb)

KOREAN Tsunami fact sheet (.pdf 123kb)

MAORI Drop, cover, hold fact sheet (.pdf 101kb)

MAORI Tsunami fact sheet (.pdf 93kb)

PUNJABI Drop, cover, hold fact sheet (.pdf 137kb)

PUNJABI Tsunami fact sheet (.pdf 109kb)

RUSSIAN Drop, cover, hold fact sheet (.pdf 95kb)

RUSSIAN Tsunami fact sheet (.pdf 85kb)

SAMOAN Drop, cover, hold fact sheet (.pdf 106kb)

SAMOAN Tsunami fact sheet (.pdf 91kb)

SOMALI Drop, cover, hold fact sheet (.pdf 94kb)

SOMALI Tsunami fact sheet (.pdf 84kb)

SPANISH Drop, cover, hold fact sheet (.pdf 94kb)

SPANISH Tsunami fact sheet (.pdf 93kb)

TAGALOG Drop, cover, hold fact sheet (.pdf 93kb)

TAGALOG Tsunami fact sheet (.pdf 83kb)

TAMIL Drop, cover, hold fact sheet (.pdf 146kb)

TAMIL Tsunami fact sheet (.pdf 159kb)

THAI Drop, cover, hold fact sheet (.pdf 251kb)

THAI Tsunami fact sheet (.pdf 223kb)

TONGAN Drop, cover, hold fact sheet (.pdf 102kb)

TONGAN Tsunami fact sheet (.pdf 95kb)

URDU Drop, cover, hold fact sheet (.pdf 119kb)

URDU Tsunami fact sheet (.pdf 133kb)

VIETNAMESE Drop, cover, hold fact sheet (.pdf 235kb)

VIETNAMESE Tsunami fact sheet (.pdf 159kb)

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