Rarotonga
Cook Islands
| 1.1 | Opening Ceremonies |
| 1.2 | Logistics and Administrative Items, Introductions Course Overview |
| 2.1 | ICG/PTWS-XXVI Outcomes, specifically for the Pacific Islands |
| 2.2 | Responding Rapidly and Effectively: Tsunami Warning and Emergency Response Requirements and Timeline-driven SOPs |
| 2.3 | Tsunami Warning Center SOPs: What do Tsunami Warning Centers (TWCs) provide to Tsunami Emergency Response (TER) agencies? |
| 2.4 | PTWS video: Tsunami Warning! |
| 3.1 | Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) New Enhanced Products - Overview - What, Why, Criteria, Formats |
| 3.2 | Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) New Enhanced Products - Staging |
| 3.3 | Cook Islands TWC and TER SOPs using PTWC Enhanced Products |
| 3.4 | Discussion: CI SOPs – status, gaps, needs |
| 4.1 | Earthquake Science and Hazards Tsunami Science and Hazards |
| 4.2 | PTWC Enhanced Products - Explanation of Each Product: Text, Forecast Polygon Map, Graphical Deep-Ocean Energy, Coastal Forecast, Forecast Tables, KMZ file |
| 4.3 | 16 September 2015, M8.3 Tsunami – PTWC summary, PTWS Post-Tsunami Event Assessment Survey |
| 4.3.b | Tsunami Hazard Scenarios around the Pacific - Understanding PTWC Enhanced Products |
| 4.4 | Tsunami Emergency Response (TER) SOPs: Overview of Stakeholder Roles and Coordination, Event Operations, Timelines, Checklists, Examples |
| 4.5 | 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) |
| 5.1 | Cook Islands SOP Development: Communications Flow Chart, Roles & Responsibilities |
| 5.2 | Demonstration: Decision Support Tools of Monitoring, Detection, Assessment – Earthquakes: Real-time Earthquake Display (CISN), USGS web site (CMT, ShakeMap, PAGER) Tsunami: Sea Level Monitoring (IOC web site, TideTool with Tsunami Travel Times), RIFT Tsunami Scenarios |
| 5.3 | Cook Islands SOP Development: Alert Criteria Table – Regional and Distant Tsunami Cases |
| 5.4 | Cook Islands SOP Development: Timeline-driven actions – Regional Tsunami Case - when, who, how to decide, what to use Decision-making processes for: 1. Warning/Watch/Information using: - PTWC initial message (no quantitative forecast, OT+7 min) - PTWC quantitative forecast (OT+25 min) 2. Cancelling Watch / Warning 3. Issuing “All-Clear” |
| 5.5 | Cook Islands SOP Development: Timeline-driven actions – Distant Tsunami Case - when, who, how to decide, what to use |
| 5.6 | Cook Islands SOP Development: National Tsunami Message Products for Different Alert Levels: - Threat: Warning, Watch - No Threat: Information Statement |
| 6.1 | TWC Operations: Earthquake Monitoring: Real-time Detection and Fast Source Characterization – Methods to determine Magnitude and Fault Mechanism (W-Phase CMT), Limitations and Challenges (did not present in detail) |
| 6.2 | TWC Operations: Sea Level Monitoring - Methods, Instruments, Limitations, Challenges |
| 6.3 | TWC Operations: Travel Time Forecasting - Methods, Limitations, Uncertainty, Sensitivity Studies (Location, Depth, Magnitude) (did not present in detail) |
| 6.4 | TWC Operations: Wave Amplitude Forecasting – Methods, Limitations, Uncertainty, Sensitivity Studies (Location, Depth, Magnitude) (did not present in detail) |
| 6.5 | What do TERs do with TWC information? Challenges in Alerting, Evacuation, and Safe-to-Return (All-Clear) (did not present) |
| 6.6 | Building Awareness & Community Preparedness – Being TsunamiSmart and TsunamiReady (did not present) |
| 6.7 | Activity: Improving Response – What Happens When? Reliable and Unreliable Information (did not present) |
| 6.8 | Final Discussion: CI Readiness - Questions, Answers, Next Steps |