Know your local community's suggested evacuation routes to safe areas, where shelter can be provided while you await the "all clear".
Be prepared to survive on your own for at least three days. To do this, you should prepare an emergency kit for your home and car, along with a portable one.
Consider taking a first aid course and learn survival skills.
Tune to a radio station that serves your area and listen for instructions from emergency officials. Follow these instructions and wait for the "all clear" before returning to the coast.
Stay away from the beach – do not go down to watch a tsunami come.
Move inland to higher ground immediately and stay there.
If there is a noticeable recession in the water away from the shoreline, this is considered “nature’s tsunami warning” and you should move away immediately.
After a Tsunami
Stay away from flooded and damaged areas until officials say it is safe to go back.
Stay away from debris in the water – it could cause health and safety risks.
Save yourself first, not your possessions.
Help injured or trapped people – give first aid where appropriate.
Do not move seriously injured persons unless they are in immediate danger or further injury.
Help a neighbor who may require special assistance, like elderly people or small children or people with disabilities.
Stay out of the building if water remains around it – tsunami waters, like flood waters, can cause buildings to sink and collapse.
Check food supplies – any food that has come in contact with flood waters should be thrown out because it may be contaminated.
