Android Mobile Application: Tsunami Alert System with an Escape Route for Evacuation in Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office

The Tsunami alert system is an Android-based application that requires installation and is designed and developed for Abuyog residents. This system will deliver a real-time tsunami alert message and push notification to the registered netizen. It will also recommend a map of higher ground safe from the Tsunami. The Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (MDRRMO) spent a lot of time alarming the Abuyog Residents, aware of the possible incoming Tsunami. They started activities for the residents to prepare for how to survive before and during the disaster. This study aimed to develop a system that improves and provides efficiency for the residents of Abuyog and to support the preparations of the Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office of Abuyog. Moreover, the project conducted was beneficial to the citizen of Abuyog that helped facilitate the dissemination of information to all netizens registered in the system. In this study, an Iterative Method was used to develop the system based on the client's perspective. The system was tested and revised until clients were satisfied with the result. And this system was evaluated by fifty (50) and exceeds end-users which concluded that the system is highly accepted with an average of 4.89 out of 5 as the highest for measuring the system's quality and performance proving that this has a great potential for disaster risk management.