Regional Training Workshop on Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) Enhanced Tsunami Products for ICG/CARIBE EWS

07 - 10 December 2015,

Bridgetown,
Barbados



Agenda



1 DAY 1 - Overview
1.1 ICG/CARIBE EWS-X Outcomes, specifically for the CARIBE-EWS Enhanced Products
1.2 Responding Rapidly and Effectively: Tsunami Warning and Emergency Response Requirements and Timeline-driven SOPs
1.3 Key Stakeholders: Tsunami Warning Center SOPs – What do Tsunami Warning Centres (TWCs) provide to Tsunami Emergency Response (TER) agencies? Challenges in Detection and Tsunami Threat Assessment
1.4 Key Stakeholders: Tsunami Emergency Response SOPs: What do TER agencies provide to the Public? Challenges in Alerting, Evacuation, and Safe-to-Return (All-Clear)
1.5 Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) SOPs
1.6 Country SOPs
2 DAY 2 – TWC Operations
2.1 TWC Operations: Seismic monitoring in the Caribbean
2.2 TWC Operations: Real-time Earthquake Detection and Fast Source Characterization - Sparse networks, Magnitudes, W-Phase Centroid Moment Tensors – Techniques, Limitations, Challenges
2.3 TWC Operations: Sea Level Monitoring in the Caribbean
2.4 TWC Operations: Sea Level Monitoring – Instruments, Limitations, Challenges
2.5 Demonstration: Decision Support Tools of Monitoring, Detection, Assessment – Earthquakes: Real-time Earthquake Display (CISN), USGS web site (CMT, ShakeMap, PAGER)
2.6 Demonstration: Decision Support Tools of Monitoring, Detection, Assessment – Tsunamis: TideTool with Tsunami Travel Times, IOC Sea Level Station Monitoring Facility web site)
2.7 TWC Operations: Travel Time Forecasting – Techniques, Limitations, Uncertainty, Sensitivity Studies
2.8 TWC Operations: Wave Amplitude Forecasting – Techniques, Limitations, Uncertainty, Sensitivity Studies, Sensitivity Studies
3 DAY 3 – CARIBE-EWS PTWC Enhanced Products
3.1 CARIBE EWS PTWC Enhanced Products Overview – What, Why, SOPs (Criteria, Formats)
3.2 PTWC Enhanced Products – Staging
3.3 PTWC Enhanced Products – Explanation of Each Product: Text, Forecast Polygon Map, Graphical Deep-Ocean Energy, Coastal Forecast, Forecast Tables, KMZ file
3.4 TWC and TER Guidance on how to use PTWC New Enhanced Products for National Warnings and Evacuation – Land and Marine Threats and Public Safety: Flow Charts, Criteria Tables, Timelinedriven SOPs, Message Templates
3.5 Activity: Improving Response – What Happens When? Distant and Local Scenarios
3.6 Tsunami Hazard Scenarios for the Caribbean – Understanding PTWC Enhanced Products
3.7 Tsunami Table Top Exercises – Decision-making using PTWC Enhanced Products
4 DAY 4 – Tsunami Exercises
4.1 Tsunami Table Top Exercises – Decision-making using PTWC Enhanced Products
4.2 Summary Discussion: Country Readiness for PTWC New Enhanced Products