ITP-Solomon Islands: Tsunami Warning and Emergency Response Using the PTWC Enhanced Products for National Tsunami Threat Decision-Making
ITP-Solomon Islands
Training Course
22 - 25 September 2015
Honiara
Solomon Islands
Organiser(s) & Staff
Participation
By invitation only.
The training workshop will cover tsunami warning operations and the use of the PTWC Enhanced Products for tsunami threat decision-making, with specific attention on the warning and emergency response plan and standard operating procedures (SOPs) of the Solomon Islands. Topics will include warning and response SOPs and challenges, warning decision support tools, warning messages and alerting, evacuation concepts and planning, and awareness strategies. Over the last 10+ years, with improvements in data quality, quantity, and real-time availability, PTWC’s response time has dropped significantly from an hour to 5-10 minutes for tsunami events. At the same time, with each great earthquake and tsunami since 26 December 2004 helping to increase scientific understanding, better techniques have been developed to quickly characterize the earthquake and numerically model the tsunami. In 2014, the PTWC implemented Enhanced Products for the PTWS that now include wave amplitude forecasts in both text and graphical formats, and that require each country to explicitly assign Warning / Watch status in their own messages to their coasts. In July 2015, the First Pacific Ministerial Meeting on Meteorology adopted the Nuku'alofa Declaration, calling for support to ensure that National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHS) have the necessary capacity to support sustainable development, and specifically for the need to strengthen their tsunami early warning systems. Accordingly, the goal of this training is to increase the capacity of first responder operational staff to efficiently and effectively respond to tsunamis.
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- 1 - OPENING AND WELCOME
- 1.1 - Opening Ceremonies
- 1.2 - Logistics and Administrative Items, Introductions, Course Overview
Course Overview - Tsunami Warning and Emergency Response: Using the PTWC Enhanced Products for National Tsunami Threat Decision-making - 2 - ICG/PTWS-XXVI, Tsunami Early Warning Systems
- 2.1 - ICG/PTWS-XXVI Outcomes, specifically for the Southwest Pacific
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission Intl Tsunami Symposium & ICG PTWS XXVI - 2.2 - Responding Rapidly and Effectively: Tsunami Warning and
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
What do Tsunami Warning Centers provide to Tsunami Emergency Response Agencies? - 3 - PTWC Enhanced Products, Solomon Islands SOPs
- 3.1 - Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) New Enhanced Products -
PTWC New Enhanced Products for Pacific countries: Overview - 3.2 - Northwest Pacific Tsunami Advisory Center (NWPTAC) – Present
Japan Meteorological Agency Northwest Pacific Tsunami Advisory Center (JMA NWPTAC) - 3.3 - Solomon Islands TWC SOPs using PTWC Enhanced Products
- 3.4 - Solomon Islands TER SOPs – National, Provincial, Local
- 3.5 - Discussion: SI SOPs – status, gaps, needs
- 3.6 - PTWC Enhanced Products - Staging and Explanation of Each
PTWC New Enhanced Products for Pacific countries: Overview - 4 - PTWC Enhanced Products, TWC Operations -
- 4.1 - Science of Earthquakes, Regional Tectonics and Seismicity, and
Earthquake Seismology for Tsunami Warning: - 4.2 - TWC Operations: Real-time Earthquake Detection and Fast Source
- 4.3 - Oceania Regional Seismic Network (ORSNET)
The Oceania Regional Seismic NETwork (ORSNET) - 4.4 - TWC Operations: Real-time Earthquake Detection and Fast Source
- 4.5 - Science of Tsunamis
Science of Tsunami - 4.6 - Historical Tsunamis Affecting the Region, and Tsunami Hazard
- 4.7 - TWC Operations: Sea Level Monitoring - Use, Instruments,
TWC Operations: Sea Level Monitoring - Use, Instruments, Limitations, Challenges - 4.8 - Demonstration: Decision Support Tools for Monitoring, Detection,
Keeping Authorities Informed: Available TW Decision Support Tools Alert, Sea Level, Earthquakes Historical Database, Tsunami Travel Times - 4.9 - TWC Operations: Travel Time and Wave Amplitude Forecasting -
- 5 - Tsunami Forecasting, NTWC and NDMO SOPs for PTWC
- 5.1 - TER SOPs: Overview of Stakeholder Roles and Coordination, Event
- 5.2 - TWC and TER SOPs for PTWC Enhanced Products: Guidance,
- 5.3 - Discussion: SI Tsunami Warning and Evacuation Messages
Communication in Disaster
Tsunami Simple Warning - 5.4 - What do TERs do with TWC information? Challenges in Alerting,
- 5.5 - Discussion: SI Alerting and Evacuation – status, gaps, needs
- 5.6 - Activity: Improving Response – What Happens When?
- 5.7 - Building Awareness & Community Preparedness - strategies and
Awareness and preparedness for an effective end-to-end tsunami Early Warning System - 5.8 - Discussion: SI Awareness and Preparedness – status, gaps, needs
- 6 - Tsunami Hazard Scenarios, Tsunami Exercise
- 6.1 - Tsunami Hazard Scenarios around the Pacific - Understanding PTWC Enhanced Products
Earthquake Seismology for Tsunami Warning: - 6.2 - Tsunami Table Top Exercise - Decision-making using PTWC
Tsunami Exercise - 6.3 - Tsunami Table Top Exercise - Decision-making using PTWC
- 6.4 - Tsunami Table Top Exercise - Decision-making using PTWC Enhanced Products – Tonga local tsunami scenario
Tsunami Exercise - 6.5 - Final Discussion: Solomon Islands Readiness - Questions, Answers, Next Steps
What do Tsunami Warning Centers provide to Tsunami Emergency Response Agencies? - 7 - Closing Ceremonies
There are 47 participants associated with ITP-Solomon Islands: Tsunami Warning and Emergency Response Using the PTWC Enhanced Products for National Tsunami Threat Decision-Making , 3 of whom are provisional .
Name | Country |
---|---|
ALENGE Hotoravu | Solomon Islands |
BOPULO Bartholomew | Solomon Islands |
LILO Walter | Solomon Islands |
SAEMANE Geolynx | Solomon Islands |
YOUNG Peter | Solomon Islands |
ANAIA Nelson | Solomon Islands |
ARUKWAI Silas | Solomon Islands |
BAKALE Francis | Solomon Islands |
BARAGAMU George | Solomon Islands |
BUNABO Henry | Solomon Islands |
FERAH Freddy | Solomon Islands |
FITO'O Frank | Solomon Islands |
GANGURA Joe Pita | Solomon Islands |
GULIOA George | Solomon Islands |
HAGARIA Jerry | Solomon Islands |
HAUKARE Robert | Solomon Islands |
HIRIASIA David | Solomon Islands |
HIROMANA Oliver | Solomon Islands |
IROI Chanel | Solomon Islands |
KADAMANA Charles | Solomon Islands |
KELLY Bobby | Solomon Islands |
KO'OFULI Rolland | Solomon Islands |
KUALI-IAUTU Florence | Vanuatu |
MALVI Henry Smith | Solomon Islands |
MANEKERA Collin | Solomon Islands |
MCQUEEN Bahenua | Solomon Islands |
MEKE Job | Solomon Islands |
NASIU Steve | Solomon Islands |
PAIKAI George | Solomon Islands |
PITU Hamptan | Solomon Islands |
PORAHOA Kevin | Solomon Islands |
RICHARDSON Jennifer | Solomon Islands |
RILIFIA Alexander | Solomon Islands |
SAEGA Wilson | Solomon Islands |
SAENI Brian Wilson | Solomon Islands |
SIMI Pearson | Solomon Islands |
SOLOMON Sammy | Solomon Islands |
SURI Selwyn | Solomon Islands |
TAFIARIKI Jonathan | Solomon Islands |
TAHANI Lloyd | Solomon Islands |
TEGO George | Solomon Islands |
TIMAUKU Ruth | Solomon Islands |
TIVA James | Solomon Islands |
WALE'ELE Allan | Solomon Islands |
WAOKAHI Belinda | Solomon Islands |
YATES Loti | Solomon Islands |
ZAKU Gareth | Solomon Islands |
= Person has not yet confirmed their participation.
Participant Stats:
Total Invited: 47
Confirmed: 44
Not confirmed: 3
Unapproved: 0
Not-participating: 0
Rejected: 0
Label(s): no labels
Created at 00:03 on 02 Oct 2015 by Bernardo Aliaga Rossel
Last Updated at 09:18 on 02 Aug 2024 by Sofie de Baenst