ITP-Tonga: Tsunami Warning and Emergency Response Using the PTWC Enhanced Products for National Tsunami Threat Decision-Making

24 - 27 August 2015,

Nukualofa
Tonga

Annotated Agenda

1 DAY 1: Opening, ICG/PTWS-XXV, Tsunami Early Warning Systems, PTWC Enhanced Products
1.1 Opening Ceremonies
1.2 Logistics and Administrative Items, Introductions, Course Overview
1.3 ICG/PTWS-XXVI Outcomes, specifically for the Southwest Pacific
1.4 Responding Rapidly and Effectively: Tsunami Warning and Emergency Response Requirements and Timeline-driven SOPs
1.5 Tonga Tsunami Emergency Response (TER), Overview
1.6 Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) New Enhanced Products - What, Why, SOPs (Criteria, Formats, Staging)
1.7 PTWC Enhanced Products - Staging and Explanation of Each Product: Text, Forecast Polygon Map, Graphical Deep-Ocean Energy, Coastal Forecast, Forecast Tables, KMZ file
1.8 Fuamoto Tsunami Warning Center SOPs using PTWC Enhanced Products
1.9 PANEL: Tonga Tsunami Readiness – status, gaps, needs
2 DAY 2: TWC Operations (Earthquake, Tsunami monitoring and forecasting), Warning Decision Support Tools, Awareness and Preparedness
2.1 Tsunami Warning Center (TWC) Operations: Real-time Earthquake Detection and Fast Source Characterization - Sparse networks, Magnitudes, W-Phase Centroid Moment Tensors – Techniques, Use, Limitations, Challenges
2.2 TWC Operations: Sea Level Monitoring - Use, Instruments, Limitations, Challenges
2.3 Building Awareness & Community Preparedness – strategies and examples
2.4 What do TERs do with TWC information? Challenges in Alerting, Evacuation, and Safe-to-Return (All-Clear)
2.5 Discussion: Tonga Awareness and Preparedness – status, gaps, needs
3 DAY 3: NTWC and NDMO SOPs for PTWC Enhanced Products, Evacuation, Awareness, Tsunami Forecasting
3.1 TWC SOPs: What do TWCs provide to Tsunami Emergency Response (TER) agencies?
3.2 TER SOPs: Overview of Stakeholder Roles and Coordination, Event Operations, Timelines, Checklists, examples
3.3 TWC Operations - Decision Support Tools of Monitoring, Detection, Assessment – Earthquakes: Real-time Earthquake Display (CISN), USGS web site (CMT, ShakeMap, PAGER), Sea Level Monitoring (IOC web site, TideTool with Tsunami Travel Times) - demo
3.4 TWC and TER (SOPs) for PTWC Enhanced Products: Guidance, Flow Charts, Criteria Tables, Timeline-driven SOP, Message Templates. Warning (EQ Magnitude and Forecast thresholds), Evacuation (Land and Marine Threats and Public Safety)
3.5 PANEL: Tonga SOPs – status, gaps, needs
3.6 TWC Operations: Travel Time and Wave Amplitude Forecasting - Techniques, Use, Limitations, Uncertainty, Sensitivity Studies (Location, Depth, Magnitude)
4 DAY 4: Tsunami Hazard Scenarios, Tsunami Exercises on National Threat Decision-making
4.1 Tsunami Hazard Scenarios around the Pacific - Understanding PTWC Enhanced Products
4.2 Tsunami Table Top Exercise - Decision-making using PTWC Enhanced Products – Tonga local tsunami scenario
4.3 Tonga Implementation plan
4.4 Final Discussion: Tonga Readiness - Questions, Answers, Next Steps
4.5 Closing Ceremonies