How People Responded to the April 2007 Tsunami Warning in Cairns and Townsville

Following the Indian Ocean Tsunami in 2004 there was heightened international awareness of this hazard and strategies were developed to improve tsunami warning systems worldwide. Australian emergency management and scientific agencies such as EMA, Geoscience Australia, the Bureau of Meteorology and state emergency management departments released warning and behaviour information through websites, and the development of warning systems has been ongoing. Despite the enormity of the tsunami, research on tsunami awareness has been limited.