Regional Training on “Strengthening Standard Operating Procedures for Tsunami Warning and Emergency Response and the Development of the ICG/CARIBE-EWS PTWC New Enhanced Tsunami Products

18 - 22 November 2013,

Bridgetown,
Barbados



Agenda



1 Opening, Tsunami Warning and Emergency Response – Overview
1.1 Opening Ceremonies
1.2 Logistics and Administrative Items
1.3 Regional Partner Support to the ICG/CARIBE-EWS Tsunami Early Warning System - Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology (CIMH)
2.1 Course Overview
2.2 End-to-End Tsunami Warning and Emergency Response – Overview
2.3 End-to-end Tsunami Warning – Stakeholders, Roles and Responsibilities, Standard Operating Procedures, and their linkages
2.4 Lessons Learned from Past Tsunamis - Warning and Emergency Response
2.4b Lessons Learned from Past Tsunamis - Warning and Emergency Response
3.1 Country Presentations (Aruba, Cayman Islands, Curacao, Dominica, Grenada, France - Martinique, France - Guadeloupe, St. Lucia) - 10 min/country
3.1b Country Presentations (St. Vincent, Trinidad & Tobago, Venezuela) - 10 min/country
3.2 Discussion: Challenges for achieving end-to-end TWS: Data, Resources, Communication, Stakeholders, Coordination, Evacuation
4 DAY 2: SESSION 4
4.1 Earthquake Seismology for Tsunami Warning - nomenclature, faulting, magnitude
4.10 Case Study: Warning Dissemination and Public Alerting – Authoritative agencies, media, and the public – JMA-NHK Warning Dissemination
4.11 Emergency communications - Robustness, reliability, redundancy. Technologies for the downstream transmission of warnings to communities
4.12 Learning Activity (individual followed by group discussion) – Official and Unofficial Information
4.13 Tsunami Exercises: Types, Guidance, International Examples
4.14 Tsunami preparedness: International Perspectives and Examples
4.15 Tsunami preparedness in the Caribbean: Exercise CARIBEWAVE 2013, US TsunamiReady, Caribbean TsunamiSmart, and other examples
4.16 Public Coastal Evacuations: Inundation Modeling, Evacuation Maps, Routes and Signage, Safe Return
4.17 Vertical Evacuation and Refuge: Progress in Designing Tsunami-Resistant Structures
4.18 Learning Activities (individual followed by group discussion) – Tsunami Warning and Emergency Response Timeline - What happens when?, Frequently-asked Questions
4.19 TWC Operations Challenges and Limitations: Real-time earthquake source characterization and Tsunami Assessment
4.2 Tsunami Science for Tsunami Warning - generation, propagation, impact
4.20 TER Operations Challenges and Limitations: Rapid Alerting and Evacuation
4.3 Caribbean Tsunami Hazards - historical and paleotsunami records
4.4 IOC Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Tsunami and Other Coastal Hazards Warning System for the Caribbean and Adjacent Regions, ICG/CARIBE-EWS
4.5 Tsunami Warning Centre Standard Operating Procedures – Concept of Operations, Overview on Routine and Event Operations, Flow Charts, Timelines, Checklists
4.6 ICG/CARIBE-EWS International Tsunami Warning Centers - PTWC Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for Monitoring and Detection of Earthquakes and Tsunamis, Evaluation of Tsunami Threat, Forecasting, Types of Products, and Message Dissemination
4.7 Tsunami Warning Decision Support Tools: Earthquake and Sea Level Monitoring, PTWC SMS Alerts, Historical Databases, Tsunami Travel Time Calculation. (Installation and Training as needed during unscheduled times)
4.8 Tsunami Emergency Response Standard Operating Procedures - Overview on Stakeholder Roles and Coordination, Event Operations, Timelines, Checklists
4.9 Case Study: Warning Dissemination and Public Alerting – Authoritative agencies, media, and the public – US Emergency Alert System, Hawaii example
5 PTWC Proposed New Enhanced Products
5.1 PTWC Proposed ICG/CARIBE-EWS Enhanced Products: Overview - Why, What, When and How to Use, Limitations
5.2 PTWC Proposed ICG/CARIBE-EWS Enhanced Products: Discussion and Feedback
6.1 Real-time Earthquake Source Characterization - Advanced Topics, such as W-phase Centroid Moment Tensors, Finite Fault Rupture, Slow Earthquakes, Great and Gigantic Earthquakes
6.1b Community-level preparedness and education – Schools, Businesses, Special Needs Populations, Tourism Sector, Ports and Harbors
6.2 Tsunami Assessment - Advanced Topics, such as Travel Time and Wave Forecasting including Techniques, Use and Limitations
6.2b Small Group Exercise - Evacuation Mapping
6.3 Creating Timeline-driven SOPs - How to Guidance, Explanation of Warning Center Templates for Distant and Local Threats, Flow Charts and Checklists.
6.3b Tsunami Emergency Response – Local Tsunami Threat – Wakayama, Japan Case Study
6.4 SOP Breakout Groups: Using Templates to Develop Timeline of Processes and Actions (Criteria for Action, Messages, Checklists, Information Dissemination, Media Information)
6.4b Creating Timeline-driven SOPs - How to Guidance, Explanation of Response Templates for Distant and Local Threats, Flow Charts and Checklists
6.5 Breakout Groups - Final Discussion
6.5b SOP Breakout Groups: Using Templates to Develop General Roles and Responsibilities and Timeline of Processes and Actions (Criteria for Action, Evacuation Checklists, Information Dissemination, Media Information)
6.6 Breakout Groups - Final Discussion
7.1 Table Top Exercise – Background and Scenarios for Day 5 Kong
7.1b Table Top Exercise – Background and Scenarios for Day 5