Abstract:

Disaster warning can be considered as a process in which the local community leaders play a crucial role; they must decide if and how the public should be warned.

The March 27, 1964, Alaska earthquake generated a series of tsunamis that spread across the Pacific Ocean. Public officials in Crescent City, California and in Hilo, Hawaii, initiated public warning and evacuation procedures when they learned their communities were in the path of these waves. Tsunami warning seems to be more routinized in Hilo that in crescent City, because public officials in Hilo have received and acted on information from several sources on methods of improving warning and evacuation procedures in the community.

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