ITIC Training Programme—Hawaii (ITP-HAWAII) on Tsunami Early Warning Systems and the PTWC Enhanced Products, Tsunami Evacuation Planning and Tsunami Ready Programme, Honolulu

03 - 13 September 2019,

Honolulu, Hawaii
United States



Agenda



1 Opening, Country Presentations
1.1 Opening Welcome and Introductions
1.2 Programme Logistics - IRC Building, Local Transportation, Coffee/Tea/Lunch Breaks, Internet/Phone/Fax, Foreign Visitor Forms, etc
1.3 Course Overview, Manual, Materials, including Awareness and TW Tools
2 Country Presentations, IOC, Tsunami EarlyWarning System Overview
2.1 Responding Rapidly and Effectively: Tsunami Warning and Emergency Response Requirements
2.2 Country Presenations
2.3 UNESCO IOC Global Tsunami System: Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Pacifie Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System (ICG/PTWS); Roles of Tsunami National Contacts, Regional Tsunami Service Providers and Tsunami Information Centers, Tsunami Warning Focal Points, National Tsunami Waming Centers
3 Earthquake Seismology and Tsunami Science, Tsunami Hazard Assessment
3.1 What earthquake science you need to know to warn for and respond to tsunami warnings? Earthquake Seismology – what, where, how, when, and damage caused
3.2 What tsunami science you need to know to warn for and respond to tsunami warnings? Tsunami generation, propagation, and inundation - what, where, how, when, and damage caused
3.3 Tsunami Warning and Mitigation Systems - Hawaii example
3.4 Tsunami Hazard Risk Assessment: Modeling and Mapping of Tsunami for Inundation and Land Evacuation - Hawaii example
3.5 Tsunami Hazard Risk Assessment: Modeling and Mapping of Tsunami for Port and Harbor Planning and Response - Hawaii example
4 Tsunami Warning Center and Emergency Response (TWC/TER) - Lessons Learned
4.1 Tsunami Warning Center Overview: What do Tsunami Warning Centers (TWCs) do? What do TWCs provide to Tsunami Emergency Response (TER) agencies? Challenges in Detection and Tsunami Threat Assessment
4.2 Lessons Learned from Past Tsunamis - Warning (Hawaii 1946-1994; Chile 1960; Nicaragua 1992 / Java 2006 / Mentawai 2010; Sumatra 2004; Tonga 2006; Samoa/Tonga 2009 (doublet); Chile 2010; Japan 2011; Bengkulu 2012; Haida Gwaii 2012; Kaikoura NZ 2016, Indonesia 2018)
4.3 Tsunami Emergency Response Overview: What do TER agencies provide to the Public? Challenges in Alerting, Evacuation, Safe-to-Return (All-Clear), and Preparedness
4.4 Lessons Learned from Past Tsunamis - Response (Hawaii 1986, 1994; Samoa/American Samoa 2009; Chile 2010; Japan 2011, Palu Indonesia 2018)
5 Hawaii State Emergency Management Agency visit
5.1 Visit Hawaii State Emergency Management Agency (HI-EMA): Response to PTWC Tsunami Products, Hawaii Emergency Alert System (EAS) and Siren System
6 TWC Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), PTWC SOPs and visit. TWC Topics - Earthquake Source Characterization and Monitoring, Tsunami Monitoring PTWC Enhanced Products, Travel time and Wave Amplitude Forecasting
6.1 IOC TWC and TER SOP Manual, End-to-end Tsunami Warning – Stakeholder and their needs, Roles and Responsibilities, Standard Operating Procedures, and their linkages
6.10 TWC Operations: Real-time Earthquake Detection and Fast Source Characterization, Methods and Limitations: Estimating Magnitudes (macroscopic intensity and instrumental)
6.11 TWC Operations: Real-time Earthquake Detection and Fast Source Characterization, Methods and Limitations: Determine Fault Mechanisms (Double-couple 1st motions to W-Phase Centroid Moment Tensors)
6.12 NTWC Competencies (draft approved at ICG/PTWS-XXVIII, 2019)
6.2 SOPs and Checklists: TWC Templates and examples for Distant, Regional, and Local Tsunamis: Monitoring, Detection and Evaluation, Communications, Message Dissemination (IOC MG 76)
6.2.1 HOMEWORK - Review & improve country TWC SOP / Checklists (especially for local/regional threat). To be used for Day 8 exercise
6.3 Pacific Tsunami Warning Center: Crisis Event SOPs: Earthquake and Sea Level Monitoring (Data networks and acquisition, quality-control/health status), Earthquake Analysis Methods, Threat Analysis, Forecasting, Products, Dissemination; Routine Operations SOPs: Quality Control and redundancy, contingency and backup. (PTWC Operations, Systems and Procedures Manual)
6.4 Visit PTWC - data networks and acquisition, monitoring, analysis, quality-control/health status, communication and dissemination, redundancy, contingency/backup, etc
6.5 TWC Operations: Sea Level Monitoring - Methods, Instruments, Limitations, Challenges
6.6 Pacific Tsunami Warning Center Enhanced Products - Why, What, Criteria, Staging of Products; Explanation of Each Product: Public Text, Graphical Deep-Ocean Tsunami Amplitude, Coastal Tsunami Amplitude, Coastal Tsunami Amplitude Polygons, Tsunami Amplitude Statistics, Coastal Tsunami Amplitude KMZ file
6.7 PTWC Operations: Travel Time Forecasting – Methods, Limitations, Uncertainty, Sensitivity Studies (Location, Depth, Magnitude)
6.8 PTWC Operations: Wave Amplitude Forecasting – Methods (ATFM, SIFT, RIFT), Limitations, Uncertainty, Sensitivity Studies (Location, Depth, Magnitude)
6.9 TWC Operations: Real-time Earthquake Detection and Fast Source Characterization, Methods and Limitations: Locating Earthquakes (seismometers, seismic stations, sparse networks and hypocentral bias, etc)
7 Travel time and Wave Amplitude Forecasting, Tsunami Warning Decision Support Tools, TsuCAT
7.1 Tsunami Warning Decision-Support Tools - Overview: Message Alerts, (CISN, USGS web site (CMT, ShakeMap, PAGER, Sea level monitoring (Tide Tool, IOC Sea Level Monitoring web site); Global Historical Tsunami Databases (WDS/NCEI web tools), Tsunami Travel Time (TTT) calculation, TsuCAT
7.2 2 Groups: 1. Tsunami Warning Decision-Support Tools (CISN, Tide Tool, TTT) - laptop installation. 2. PTWC Operational Tools (SIFT, RIFT, Wphs CMT) - demonstration
7.3 Tsunami Coastal Assessment Tool (TsuCAT) - Demonstration, Installation, Use
8 Tsunami Emergency Response (TER) SOPs, Communications, Media and Social Media, Transient Population Readiness
8.1 NTWC and TER Guidance on how to use PTWC Enhanced Products for National Warnings and Evacuation - Land and Marine Threats and Public Safety: Flow Charts, Criteria Tables, Timeline-driven SOPs, Message Templates (IOC MG 76)
8.2 SOPs and Checklists: TER operations - Example Warning Plans for Coordination of Information Flow and Evacuation (IOC MG 76). Private Sector SOPs. Developing timelinedriven SOPs (Who does What, and When (Roles and Responsibilities)?)
8.3 Local-Source Tsunami Response Best Practice (approved at ICG/PTWS-XXVIII, 2019)
8.4 Emergency communications - Robustness, reliability, redundancy. Technologies for the downstream transmission of warnings to communities.
8.5 Tsunami Evacuation, Tourist and Special Needs Population Readiness: Case Study, City & County of Honolulu
8.6 Improving Response and Managing (reliable and unreliable) Information Flow during an Event: Roles of Media and Social Media - Case Studies
8.7 HOMEWORK - Review & improve country TER SOP / Checklists (especially for local/regional threat) and Media SOP. To be used for Day 8 exercise
8.8 Learning Activity: Improving Response – Tsunami Warning and Emergency Response - What happens during an event?
8.9 Tsunami Mitigation: Designing buildings to withstand tsunamis - ASCE 7 2016, International Building Code 2018, and FEMA P-646 rev 3 (2019)
9 Tsunami-resistant building design, UNESCO IOC Tsunami Ready
9.1 Implementing Tsunami Ready programs to recognize community readiness - Guidelines, Recognition Process (IOC MG draft)
9.2 HOMEWORK - QGIS installation and familiarization - instructions. QGIS installation - troubleshooting.
9.3 Building Awareness and Community Preparedness - Tsunami Evacuation Planning - considerations and requirements. Preparing for Community Tsunami Evacuations: from inundation to evacuation maps, response plans and exercises (IOC MG 82)
10 Hazard Assessment, Inundation Mapping
10.1 Tsunami Hazard Assessment - Methods, Techniques
10.2 Global Historical Tsunami Hazards - Pacific, Caribbean, Mediterranean, Indian Ocean; Probabilistic Earthquake and Tsunami Hazard
10.3 IOC Regional Efforts on Tsunami Seismic Sources - Caribbean, Central America, South China Sea, Southwest Pacific meeting outcomes, and upcoming plans for Colombia and Ecuador
10.4 Use of Tsunami modeling for hazard and risk assessment. Case Study: Using ComMIT / MOST for hazard assessment and TsuCAT for exercise development
11 Evacuation Mapping
11.1 TR PREP-1: Making Community-based Evacuation Maps, Routes, and Signage - guidance
11.2 Create Community Evacuation Map - paper and pencil - Valparaiso, Chile example
11.3 Create Community Evacuation Map, including routes, signage - QGIS instructions
11.4 Create Community Evacuation Map, including routes, signage - QGIS; Valparaiso, Chile example
12 Response Planning
12.1 TR RESP-1 and PREP-4: Making Community Response Plans and Conducting Drills - guidance, how-to, and templates
12.2 Create Community Response Plan using guidance, how-to, and templates
13 Awareness
13.1 Building Awareness and Community Preparedness - strategies and examples, Caribbean PAE Strategy and Philippines Development Process, ITIC available materials, Hawaii examples
13.2 TR PREP-2: Creating Public Awareness poster, including evacuation
13.3 Create Public Awareness poster, including evacuation
13.4 Team Sharing: Creating Public Awareness poster
14 Awareness, Exercises, Exercise Hawaii Wave 2019 (EHW-19), EHW-19 Press Conference
14.1 Building Awareness and Community Preparedness – Tsunami Exercises and Drills, IOC Tsunami Exercise Guideline, examples
14.2 Exercise Hawaii Wave 2019 (EHW-19) Tsunami Exercise, Decision-making using PTWC Enhanced Products - Introduction, Format, Conduct
14.3 ECW-18 Tsunami Exercise Preparation - 'Country' TWC / TER SOPs, Criteria Tables, Response Plans, Alerting, Media, Evacuation, Cancellation, etc
14.4 EHW-19 Tsunami Exercise - setup and last instruction
14.5 EHW-19 Tsunami Exercise - Decision-making using PTWC Enhanced Products
14.6 Post-Exercise Evaluation - preparation for Press Conference
14.7 EHW-19 Tsunami Exercise Hotwash - Press Conference: 'Country' brief followed by 'Media' / Audience Question-and- Answer
15 Emerging Tools and Technologies, Logistics wrap-up
15.1 Improving Tsunami Warning – Emerging Techniques and Technologies: Earthquake Finite Fault Modeling, PTWC real-time GNSS/GPS detection of coseismic deformation
15.2 Improving Tsunami Warning - Emerging Tools and Technologies: ITU/WMO/IOC SMART Cables for Observing the Ocean
15.3 UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development - Tsunamis
16 ITP-Hawaii 2019 Logistics wrap-up
17 Summary and Next Steps, Closing
17.1 2019-2020 Calendar: ICG and TOWS Action Items and Priorities
17.2 Summary Discussion (Way Forward, Next Steps, Gaps and Needs): UNESCO IOC Tsunami Ready, World Tsunami Awareness Day, UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development
18 Presentation of Certificates and Closing Ceremony