If you have an Email or SMS capable Mobile Device, such as a Blackberry, Wireless PDA or Cell Phone, you might want to consider subscribing to all or some of the following Notification services.
If you are also in front of a computer most of the day you would want to add the Notification Services to it also,both at work and home.
To be warned when :
- Hurricanes occur, and to Track their progress, sign up for the National Hurricane Center’s tropical cyclone text products ,available by email. There are subscription lists arranged by region (Atlantic and E. Pacific), with the choice of receiving the advisories and bulletins you want for one or all of the specific regions:
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/signup.shtml
There are also RSS Feeds available for each region at:
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutrss.shtml - Earthquakes occur, sign up for free automated email notification to your Email inbox or Cell Phone at:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/ens/
There are also RSS Feeds available for earthquake notification:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/catalogs/index.php - Tsunamis occur, Subscribe to Email Alerts and/or a RSS feed of Tsunamis to your Email inbox or Cell Phone at:
http://wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov/watcher/tsunamiwatcher.php
You can subscribe to one or all of the following Tsunami Notifications: - All messages for U.S. West Coast, British Columbia, and Alaska
- All messages for U.S. and Canadian Atlantic coasts
- Watch/Warning/Advisory messages only
WC/ATWC messages are now also available via RSS.
For information on Tsunami events outside these areas, please register at ioc.unesco.org/indotsunami/subscribe_warning.htm
About Tsunami Watcher
This service provides tsunami bulletins issued from the West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center. These bulletins contain information specific to residents along the:
- Alaska coast
- British Columbia coast
- Eastern Canada coast
- U.S. West coast
- U.S. East coast
- Gulf of Mexico coasts.
Short format messages provided through this site are very abbreviated (messages are less than 90 characters in length). These messages are intended for dissemination to cell phones with text messaging capabilities. Due to the message length limitations, only the message type, earthquake parameter information, and a very concise evaluation is provided.
