Disaster Preparedness

Honduras's civil protection agency and international partners will conduct a large-scale tsunami simulation on October 13 in Atlántida coastal communities to strengthen emergency coordination and community awareness.

Copeco's Early Warning chief says the south and west are Honduras's most seismically vulnerable regions and warns that a major earthquake is "very likely" given the country's position on two tectonic plates.

The municipal government of Tegucigalpa-Comayagüela is executing 14 mitigation and prevention projects to relocate 160,000 people from flood and landslide zones, with plans to complete them by year-end and distribute housing repair bonuses of $400 to 100 families damaged by recent rains.

A magnitude 4.7 earthquake struck 94 kilometers south of Amapala in Valle on July 8, causing no reported damage, but seismic officials are urging Hondurans to prepare for potentially larger tremors given the country's high tectonic activity.

Honduras's disaster agency Copeco, backed by Israeli emergency specialists from Magen David Adom, ran a multi-agency mass-casualty simulation in Tegucigalpa testing triage, evacuation, and inter-institutional coordination across firefighters, the Red Cross, military, and hospitals.