Bridgetown,
Barbados
| 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 |