Conclusion

Make sure your community, your people and their children are aware of:

- Tsunami escape routes (care for maps either on paper or online),

- Tsunami alert messages over the radio,

- Tsunami alert messages send by twitter,

- Prepare sustainable power sources for your mobile devices,

- The tsunami history of your region should be researched and considered,

- Tsunami alerts issued by reliable sources such as NOAA (US) or JMA (JP).

- Make school children tsunami experts, explorers and messengers;

About the usage of theses Global Tsunami Blueprints:

- Make this information available to your community. Either directly in English, or translate it
when adequate.

- Knowledge on tsunamis and their warning signs are rescuing lives during the next tsunami
events.

- Make the danger of tsunamis a common knowledge to your community – in schools but also in
everyday live.
- Make your community tsunami emergency and escape plans publicly available and known.

- Make emergency trainings with your community and schools.

- Create tsunami emergency and escape routes on traditional maps or in the internet.

- Knowledge on tsunamis and their warning signs are rescuing lives during the next tsunami
events.

- Rely on tsunami warnings from serious agencies such as JMA (Japanese Metrological Agency).

- Build tsunami shelters where appropriate.

- Make school children tsunami awareness mangers, tsunami explorers and tsunami
messengers.

Advice for a Local Approach

Set up a local process that is suitable, sustainable and tailored to the needs, demands and
resources of the coastal community in question:

Setting up a local TOP, based on the Hawaii Blueprint paper.

Performing a local approach: Survey the area

Preassessment
Research what warning system is already in place. Factor that into the TOP resources and
development.

Find out what the citizens already know. How do they communicate? What is the best way to get
information out in the area, i.e. advertising? Radio? Television? Pamphlets?

Identify key community leaders (from all different areas, such as political office holders, church
leaders, other social leaders, etc.). Who are willig to work on the project and who would know of
funding, issues of sustainability, power sources, what already has been done.

Identify the schools and interview the key principal stakeholders in the school, such as the
principal, teachers, parents, etc. Who would be involved with the children?

Identify the mobile and energy sources available, especially emergency resources for after the
tsunami. Make sure to have sustainable energy sources available such as solar power or wind
power.