TOWS Task Teams on Disaster Management and Preparedness & Tsunami Watch Operations

04 - 06 March 2026,

no location specified or online event

Agenda



1 Joint Task Team Meeting
1.1 Session Organisation
1.2 Review of Joint Actions
1.3 ICG Reporting on Wave Exercises
1.4 Significant Events in each ICG
1.5 Methodology for estimating TRR eligibility & Risk Assessment at Community Level
1.6 Update of First ODTP Conference
1.7 Update on IUGG and ITS-2025
1.8 Update on EW4All
1.9 Summary of Actions& Recommendations
2 Task Team on Disaster Management and Preparedness
2.1 Session Organisation
2.2 Tsunami Ready
2.2.1 Highlight - status of Tsunami Ready Implementation
2.2.2 Update of Tsunami Ready Tool Kit Integration in M&G 74 and Communication to Member States
2.2.3 Automation of TRR Applications
2.2.4 Summary report on Impact of TRRP Implementation
2.2.5 Preparation of a Summary Report on the Implementation, Challenges and Opportunities of Impementing TRR
2.2.6 Organizing a Tsunami Ready Summit
2.2.7 Update on Tsunami Ready Coalition Implementation Plan
2.2.8 Update on establishing the Tsunami Ready Equivalency for the PTWS
2.2.9 Tsunami Ready Applications for Specific and Complex National Situations (National Scale and Unique Disaster Risk Governance)
2.3 TEWS Supporting Tools
2.3.1 Visual Based Approach for TEWS chain
2.3.2 Assessment tool for downstream warning process
2.4 Inclusion and Critical Infrastructures
2.4.1 Inclusive SOP
2.4.2 Tsunami Prearedness and Critical Infrastructures
2.5 Round Table Discussion - Policy and Future Implementation: Tsunami Ready
2.6 WTAD and Planning for 2026
2.7 Develop TT TMP Work Plan
2.8 Key Decisions and Recommendations
2.9 AOB & Close of Meeting
3 Task Team on Tsunami Watch Operations
3.1 Session Organisation
3.2 Review of Important Actions
3.3 Tsunami Watch Operations
3.3.1 Status and Plans of Tsunami Watch Operations in the ICGs
3.3.2 Updates to the Area of Coverage and ESZ Maps
3.3.3 Updates on Products for Maritime Community
3.4 Tsunamis Generated by non-Seismic Sources
3.4.1 ICG SOPs for TSunamis Generated by Volcanos
3.4.2 World Organisation of Volcano Observatories
3.4.3 Other Sources (Landslides, Meteotsunamis)
3.5 Support to ODTP High Level Objective 1
3.5.1 Optimal Monitoring Networks
3.5.2 SMART Cables
3.5.3 Hydroacoustic & AI for Tsunami Warnings
3.6 CAP Implementation
3.7 Updates to Global Service Definition Document
3.8 Deceisions / Recommendations / Work Plan
3.9 AOB & Closing of the TTTWO Meeting