Chile
| 1.1 | Welcome and Introductions |
| 1.2 | Programme Logistics – Health and Safety, SHOA Campus, Local Transportation, Coffee/Tea/Lunch Breaks, Internet/Phone/Fax, Visitor Rules, etc |
| 1.3 | Course Overview, Meeting Site, Materials, including Awareness and TW Tools |
| 2.1 | Responding Rapidly and Effectively: Tsunami Warning and Emergency Response Requirements, Stakeholder and their needs, Roles and Responsibilities, Standard Operating Procedures, and their linkages |
| 2.2 | UNESCO IOC Global Tsunami System: Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Pacific 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 Warning Centers |
| 2.3 | Country Presentations |
| 3.1 | What earthquake science do 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 do 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 | Great Earthquakes (~M9+) and tsunamis, including 2004, 2011, old Kuril and 1700 Cascadia - why, where, impacts, and long-term probabilistic forecasts |
| 3.4 | South American earthquake and tsunami hazards |
| 4.1 | Tsunami Warning and Mitigation Systems – overview Chile example 1. Tsunami Hazard Risk Assessment 2. Tsunami Warning Center (SNAM) |
| 4.2 | Tsunami Warning and Mitigation Systems – overview - Chile example (continued) 3. Tsunami Emergency Response 4. Tsunami Preparedness, Exercises, and Awareness |
| 4.3 | Chile SNAM TWC operations drill. Tsunami Warning Center Operations (3 groups of 11 persons) |
| 5.1 | 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 |
| 5.2 | Tsunami Emergency Response Overview: What do TER agencies provide to the Public? Challenges in Alerting, Evacuation, Safe-to-Return (All-Clear), and Preparedness |
| 5.3 | Lessons Learned from Past Tsunamis - Warning (Hawaii 1946; Chile 1960; Okushiri 1993; Nicaragua 1992 / Java 2006 / Mentawai 2010; Sumatra 2004; Tonga 2006; Samoa/Tonga 2009 (doublet); Chile 2010; Great East Japan 2011; Haida Gwaii 2012; Kaikoura NZ 2016, Indonesia 2018, Tonga 2022) Lessons Learned from Past Tsunamis - Response (Hawaii 1986, 1994; Papua New Guinea 1998; Samoa/American Samoa 2009; Chile 2010; Japan 2011, Palu Indonesia 2018) |
| 6.1 | UN Ocean Decade Tsunami Programme - goals |
| 6.2 | UN Ocean Decade Tsunami Warning goals - Emerging Tools and Technologies for faster and more accurate tsunami forecasts - ITU/WMO/IOC SMART Cables for Observing the Ocean |
| 6.3 | UN Ocean Decade Tsunami Warning goals - Emerging Techniques and Technologies for faster more accurate tsunami forecasts: Earthquake Finite Fault Modeling, GNSS/GPS detection of co-seismic deformation, "spaced-based ionosphere" |
| 6.4 | UN Ocean Decade Tsunami Warning goals - 100% detection - non-seismic tsunami sources |
| 6.5 | UN Ocean Decade Tsunami Warning goals - 100% detection - non-seismic tsunami sources - Chile SHOA SOP |
| 7.1 | IOC TWC and TER SOP Manual (MG 76), SOPs and checklists: TWC Operations for Distant, Regional, and Local Tsunamis - Monitoring, Detection and Evaluation, Communications |
| 7.10 | PTWS NTWC Staff Minimum Competencies (ICG/PTWS-XXX, 2023) |
| 7.2 | 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 |
| 7.3 | PTWC Routine Operations SOPs: Quality Control and redundancy, contingency and backup. (PTWC Operations, Systems and Procedures Manual) |
| 7.4 | 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 (video and discussion) |
| 7.5 | 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) |
| 7.6 | TWC Seismology science background - Real-time Earthquake Detection and Fast Source Characterization, Methods and Limitations: Estimating Magnitudes (macroscopic intensity and instrumental), Determine Fault Mechanisms (Double-couple 1st motions to W-Phase Centroid Moment Tensors) |
| 7.7 | TWC Seismology operational considerations - Real-time Earthquake Detection and Fast Source Characterization: Methods and Limitations (same topics as in 7.6) |
| 7.8 | TWC Operations: Travel Time and Amplitude Forecasting – Methods, Limitations, Uncertainty, Sensitivity Studies (Location, Depth, Magnitude) |
| 7.9 | TWC Operations: Decision Support System (DSS) - Chile example: Tsunami Warning Integrated Forecast System (Chile SIPAT) |
| 8.1 | SENAPRED Emergency Operations Center (site visit) |
| 8.2 | National Seismological Center (CSN), Univ of Chile (site visit) |
| 9.1 | SOPs and Checklists: TER operations - Warning Plans for Coordination of Information Flow and Evacuation (IOC MG 76). Timeline-driven SOPs (Who does What, and When (Roles and Responsibilities)) |
| 9.2 | SOPs and Checklists, including Private Sector (hotels): Case Studies. Vanuatu, New Zealand (see 9.1) |
| 9.3 | Emergency communications - Robustness, reliability, redundancy. Technologies for the downstream transmission of warnings to communities. Case Study: Palu, Indonesia tsunami, 2018 |
| 9.4 | Local-Source Tsunami Response Best Practice (approved at ICG/PTWS-XXVIII, 2019) |
| 9.5 | Learning Activity: Improving Response – Tsunami Warning and Emergency Response - What happens during an event? |
| 9.6 | Reducing tsunami impacts to port and harbors: Earthquake and tsunami engineering, and coastal adaptation perspectives |
| 9.7 | Learning Activities: 1. Tsunami Warning Decision-Making, 2. Tsunami Warning Decision-Support Tools, 3. Tsunami Monitoring Instrumentation |
| 10.1 | Implementing preparedness programs to recognize community readiness - UNESCO IOC Tsunami Ready Recognition Programme - Guidelines, Recognition Process (IOC MG 74) |
| 10.10 | TsuCAT (Tsunami Coastal Assessment Tool) - Uses, Limitations. Local scenario uncertainties |
| 10.11 | TR RESP-1 and RESP-2: Making Tsunami Response Plans and Managing Emergency Response - guidance, how-to, and templates. |
| 10.12 | Tsunami Mitigation: Evacuation when there is no time or high ground. Designing buildings to withstand tsunamis - ASCE 7 2016, International Building Code 2018, and FEMA P- 646 rev 3 (2019) |
| 10.13 | TR PREP-3 and PREP-4: Building Awareness and Community Preparedness 1 - Strategies and examples |
| 10.14 | TR PREP-3: Awareness Learning Activity World Tsunami Awareness Day and Examples, Using online tools such as Canva to create materials |
| 10.15 | Team Sharing: Creating Public Awareness material (done on Day 8) |
| 10.16 | TR PREP 5: Building Awareness and Community Preparedness 2 - Tsunami Exercises and Drills, Guidance: IOC Tsunami Wave Exercises (IOC MG 58), IOC Community Tsunami Exercise Guideline (IOC MG 86) |
| 10.17 | IOC Exercise Pacific Wave 2024 |
| 10.18 | TR RESP-1 (done in 10.11) and PREP-5 (done in 10.16): Creating Community Response Plans and Conducting Exercises - guidance, how-to, and templates |
| 10.19 | Tsunami Exercises, Community Response Plans, and Drills - Chile examples |
| 10.2 | 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) |
| 10.20 | Tsunami Coastal Assessment Tool (TsuCAT). Using TsuCAT for response planning, exercise development. Examples (see 10.10) |
| 10.3 | TR ASSESS-1: Tsunami Hazard Risk Assessment - Data Requirements, Methods, Techniques |
| 10.4 | Tsunami Hazard Risk Assessment: Tsunami Inundation Modeling and Mapping - Chile example |
| 10.5 | TR PREP-1: Making Community-based Evacuation Maps, Routes, and Signage - guidance |
| 10.6 | Create Community Evacuation Map - paper and pencil - Vina del Mar, Chile examples |
| 10.7 | Did you escape the wave? Evacuation Drill, City of Vina Del Mar and Hotwash |
| 10.8 | Evacuation maps when inundation modeling is not possible or practical – Case Study |
| 10.9 | Hazard Assessment - IOC Regional Efforts on Tsunami Seismic Sources - Caribbean, Central America, South China Sea, Tonga Kermadec, Lesser Antilles, South America Colombia-Ecuador, Peru-Chile, New Hebrides/San Cristobal, New Britain meeting outcomes, and upcoming plans |
| 11.1 | Improving Response and Managing (reliable and unreliable) Information Flow during an Event: Media and Social Media - Good Practices (not done) |
| 11.2 | Tsunami Evacuation: Tourist and Special Needs Population, Marine Sector Readiness examples - discussion, country sharing |
| 12.1 | "Exercise Chile Wave 2024 (ECW-24) – Decision-making using PTWC Enhanced Products. EXPLAN: Introduction, Format, Conduct" |
| 12.2 | ECW-24 Tsunami Exercise Preparation Guidance - "Country" TWC / TER SOPs, Criteria Tables, Response Plans, Alerting, Media, Evacuation, Cancellation, etc |
| 12.3 | ECW-24Tsunami Exercise Preparation – "Country" TWC / TER SOPs, Criteria Tables, Response Plans, Alerting, Media, Evacuation, Cancellation, etc |
| 12.4 | ECW-24 Tsunami Exercise - setup and last instruction |
| 12.5 | ECW-24 Tsunami Exercise - Decision-making using PTWC Enhanced Products |
| 12.6 | ECW-24Post-Exercise Evaluation Preparation - Press Conference: Situation Report and Briefing |
| 12.7 | ECW-24 Post-Exercise Evaluation - Press Conference: "Country" summary followed by "Media" / Audience Question-and-Answer |
| 13.1 | 2024-25 Calendar: ICG and TOWS Action Items and Priorities |
| 13.2 | 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 |
| 14 | Presentation of Certificates and Closing Ceremony |