Emergency Protocols
This system is used for coordinating response efforts during emergencies.
What is the Incident Command System (ICS)?
This rotating storm system forms over warm ocean waters and affects the Caribbean during the Atlantic Hurricane Season.
What is a hurricane?
TEOC stands for this.
What is the Tobago Emergency Operations Centre?
ODPM stands for this.
What is the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Management?
This hazard frequently affects low-lying areas in Tobago during periods of intense or prolonged rainfall.
What is flooding?
The first action in response to an emergency is usually to activate this.
What is the Emergency Operations Center (EOC)?
These underwater earthquakes can lead to dangerous coastal flooding.
What is tsunami?
The TEOC is activated at this location during emergencies.
What is the TEMA Headquarters, Fairfield Complex?
This acronym stands for the health authority that works with TEMA in Tobago.
What is TRHA (Tobago Regional Health Authority)?
Due to its steep slopes and loose soil, this region on Tobago’s eastern side is highly susceptible to earth movements during heavy rain.
What are landslides?
This status level is declared when a hazard has the potential to affect Tobago but no impact has occurred.
What is Level 1 – Alert?
Landslides in Tobago are most likely to occur after this event.
What is heavy rainfall?
This team supports information management within the TEOC during activation.
What is the Planning Section?
CDEMA is the regional agency responsible for disaster response. It stands for?
What is the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency?
High waves and sea-level rise during tropical storms and hurricanes.
What is coastal erosion or storm surge?
The colour is associated with TEOC activation level 0
What is "white?"
This type of natural disaster struck Japan on March 16, 2022.
What is an earthquake?
This person assumes overall command at the TEOC.
Who is the Incident Commander (or Director of TEMA)?
UAVs used for search and rescue operations are also called?
What are drones (or Unmanned Aerial Vehicles)?
This long-term environmental threat, driven by global temperature rise, is causing sea level increases and altering weather patterns in Tobago.
What is climate change?
This document outlines all protocols and procedures followed within the TEOC.
What is the TEOC Reference Manual?
The term “storm surge” refers to this hurricane-related impact.
What is an abnormal rise in sea level caused by a storm’s winds?
The TEOC follows these phases: Preparedness, Response, Recovery, and ___?
What is Mitigation?
The national meteorological agency that provides weather alerts is abbreviated as?
What is TTMS (Trinidad and Tobago Meteorological Service)?
This rare but dangerous hazard could be triggered by the underwater volcano located north of Tobago.
What is a tsunami?