Thirtieth Session of the Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Pacific Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System
ICG/PTWS-XXX
Meeting
11 - 15 September 2023
Nuku’alofa
Tonga
Organiser(s) & Staff
- Mr Bernardo ALIAGA ROSSEL
- MR OFA FAANUNU
- Mr Angelos HAIDAR
- Mr Jiuta KOROVULAVULA
- Ms. Wooyoung LEE
- Dr Öcal NECMIOGLU
Participation
Open attendance.
The Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Pacific Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System was first established by the IOC in 1965 as a cooperation mechanism for countries in the Pacific whose coastal areas are threatened by tsunamis. Through the ICG, Member States have designed and developed the Pacific Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System and work together to improve and sustain it.
according to IOC Resolution XXXIX-8, membership of the ICG/PTWS consists of:
- Member States of the IOC within and bordering the Pacific Ocean and adjacent seas
- Observers from other IOC Member States
- Invited observers from organizations (including NGOs), programmes and projects, in accordance with the IOC rules and procedures.
The current Officers of the ICG/PTWS are:
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- Chair: Mr Yuji Nishimae (Japan) – elected in December 2021
- Vice-Chair: Dr Wilfried Strauch (Nicaragua) – elected in December 2021
- Vice-Chair: Mr David Coetzee (New Zealand) – elected in December 2021
The meeting agenda is technical in nature and delegates should be prepared to participate in the technical discussions

[View an annotated printable version of this agenda]
- 1 - WELCOME AND OPENING
- 2 - ORGANIZATION OF THE SESSION
- 2.1 - Adoption of agenda
PTWS XXX - Provisional Agenda _rev 6 September - 2.2 - Designation of rapporteur
- 2.3 - Conduct of the session, timetable and documentation
Draft List of Participants PTWS XXX - 7 September 2023
ICG-PTWS-XXX_Annotated Agenda_Day 3 v1.1
ICG-PTWS-XXX_Annotated Agenda_Day 4 v1.1
ICG-PTWS-XXX Annotated Agenda Day 1 & 2
ICG-PTWS-XXX_Provisional Timetable_v8
- 3 - REPORT ON INTERSESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
- 3.1 - Chairperson report
3.1. Chairperson_report - 3.3 - TOWS-WG report
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3.3. TOWS_WG Report - 3.4 - Tsunami service providers reports
- 3.4.1 - Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre (PTWC)
3.4.1. PTWC_TSP_Report - 3.4.2 - Northwest Pacific Tsunami Advisory Centre (NWPTAC)
3.4.2. PTWS30th_NWPTAC_Report_20230825 - 3.4.3 - South China Sea Tsunami Advisory Centre (SCSTAC)
3.4.3 SCSTAC REPORT
- 3.5 - ITIC report
3.5 ITIC Report PPT - 3.6 - National progress reports
NATIONAL REPORT-Republic of Korea_no pers inf
NATIONAL REPORT_Colombia_no pers inf
NATIONAL REPORT_Ecuador_no pers inf
NATIONAL REPORT_Malaysia_no pers inf
NATIONAL REPORT_Newzealand_no pers inf
NATIONAL REPORT_Peoples’ Republic of China_no pers inf
NATIONAL REPORT_Russia_no pers inf
NATIONAL REPORT_Japan_no pers inf
NATIONAL REPORT_Canada_no pers inf
3.6. PPT NATIONAL REPORT CHILE
NATIONAL REPORT_Chile_no pers inf
NATIONAL REPORT USA_no pers
NATIONAL REPORT_France_New-Caledonia_no pers inf
NATIONAL REPORT_France-French-Polynesia_without pers.info
3.6. National Report_Japan
NATIONAL REPORT_Australia_no pers inf
NATIONAL REPORT Chile _HTHH_Event_Technical_Report_Chile
3.6. PPT NATIONAL REPORT China
3.6 PPT National Report USA
3.6. PPT NATIONAL REPORT_France
NATIONAL REPORT_Solomon Islands_no pers inf - 3.7 - Working Group and Task Team reports
ICG/PTWS-WG-SCS-X/3 Report of the Tenth Meeting of ICG/PTWS Regional Working Group for the South China Sea (September 2021)
Report of the sixth meeting of the ICG/PTWS regional working group for Central America (WG-CA)
3.7. WG_South East Pacific Report_PPT
3.7. WG-SEP_REPORT
3.7. WG-Central America Report_PPT
Final Report of 9th Meeting PTWS Regional Working Group on Tsunami Warning and Mitigation for the Pacific Islands Countries and Territories (PICTS)
3.7. WG3 Report to ICG_PTWS_XXX
3.7. WG2 Report
3.7 WG-SEP REPORT_SMART_CABLE
3.7 PTWS XXX WG1 Report PPT
3.7. WG-SCS Report PPT
3.7 PTWS_XXX WG-2 PPT
PTWS_XXX WG-3 PPT
3.7.6 WG-PICT Report
3.7.8 Task Team Performance Framework - 3.8 - Report of Pacific Wave Exercise 2022
CL-2894 Pacific Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System (PTWS) Exercise Pacific Wave 2022 (PacWave22), September–November 2022, including a live Tsunami Service Provided Communication Test on 13 October at 0000 UTC
TS 175 -Exercise Pacific Wave 2022: a Pacific-wide Tsunami Warning and Communications Exercise, 1 September – 30 November 2022, volume 1: Exercise Manual
3.8. PacWave22-PICT_Regional_Exercise_Report
3.8. DRAFT PACWAVE FINAL REPORT
3.8 PTWS_XXX_PacWave 2022 PPT - 3.9 - Status of progress in other ICGs
3.9. ICG IOTWMS Chair report 23 June 2023 SC, 19062023
3.9 ICG.CARIBE Report PPT - 3.10 - Reports from UN and non-UN organisations
3.10. JTF_SMART_Tonga_ICG_PTWS
3.10. NOAA/NCEI-WDS Integrated Tsunami Data
3.10.1_SPC Report_PPT
3.10.4 Weather Ready Pacific Update_PPT
- 4 - POLICY MATTERS
- 4.1 - PTWS status report
4.1. PTWS_Status_Report - 4.2 - Tsunami Ready Recognition Programme
IOC/2021/MG/74 IOC Manuals and Guides No. 74 Standard Guidelines for the Tsunami Ready Recognition Programme
4.2. Governance of Tsunami Ready in PTWS
4.2 - Tsunami Ready Recognition in Countries with existing tsunami DRR programmes
4.2. TRRP Organigram - Governance & Responsibilities
4.2 Tsunami Ready Recog Progr PTWS XXX_PPT - 4.3 - Minimum competencies for national tsunami warning centres
4.3. PTWS_NTWC_Minimum Competency_Framework NTWC
4.3. Appendix 2_NTWC_CompetencyTraining_schema_AU-CL-IN-NZ-USA-PTWC-NTWC-TO.
4.3.PTWS MinCompetencies_NTWC_PPT
4.3 NTWC MinCompetencies - 4.4 - Integration of PTWS sensors networks for tsunami detection and characterisation
4.4. Integrated PTWS Sensors Networks_Task Team report PPT - 4.5 - Expansion of the PTWS earthquake source zone
4.5_Expansion_of_PTWS_ESZ-McCreery - 4.6 - Provision of tsunami information services for the maritime community
4.6_Provision_of_Tsunami_Services_for_the_Martitime_Community-McCreery
4.6 TSP_Messages_for_Maritime_Community - 4.7 - Revised user's manuals and services overview document
4.7_Revised_Users__Manual_and_Services_Overview_Document-McCreery - 4.8 - Pacific Wave Exercise 2024
4.8 TT_PacWave24_guidelines_PPT - 4.9 - Central America Tsunami Advisory Centre (CATAC)
4.9. CATAC users guide 2023
CATAC Status Report - 4.11 - TSUNAMI GENERATED BY VOLCANOES
- 4.11.1 - PTWS PROCEDURES AND PRODUCTS FOR THE NEXT HTHH EVENT
PTWS Interim Procedures Implementation Plan
IOC CL 2882, Interim Volcano-generated Tsunami Alert Products and Procedures of the Pacific Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System, 18 Mar 2022
IOC CL 2902, PTWC Interim Procedures and PTWS products for Tsunamis developed after the Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha’apai Volcano event (User’s Guide and informational webinar on 6 September 2022)
4.11.1 Adoption HTHH PTWS XXX_PPT - 4.11.2 - MONITORING AND WARNING SYSTEM AGAINST A TSUNAMI GENERATED BY VOLCANOES IN THE PACIFIC
IOC Technical Series 183 (Draft) Monitoring and Warning for Tsunamis Generated by Volcanoes
- 5 - PROGRAMME AND BUDGET FOR 2024-2025
- 6 - NEXT SESSION
- 6.1 - Confirmation of date and place of ICG/PTWS-XXXI
- 6.2 - Target date for ICG/PTWS-XXXII
- 7 - ELECTIONS OF OFFICERS
- 8 - ANY OTHER BUSINESS
- 9 - ADOPTION OF DECISIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
FACT SHEET PTWS Working Group PICT TT on Information Sharing Platforms_Sept 2023
FACT SHEET PTWS Working Group for the South East Pacific _August 2023
FACT SHEET PTWS Working Group 3 Disaster Risk Management and Preparedness_Feb 2023
Updated membership and leadership of PTWS Working Groups Sept 2023
FACT SHEET PTWS Pacific Island Countries and Territories Regional Working Group on Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System_Sept 2023
FACT SHEET PTWS Task Team on PacWave Exercise_September 2023
FACT SHEET PTWS Pacific Island Countries and Territories Working Group Task Team on Capacity Development,_August 2021
FACT SHEET PTWS Working Group 2 TT on the Minimum Competency Levels for National Tsunami Warning Centre (NTWC) Operations Staff_Sept 2023
FACT SHEET PTWS Working Group 2 Detection Warning Dissemination_Sept 2023
FACT SHEET PTWS Working Group on the South China Sea_September 2023
FACT SHEET PTWS Pacific Island Countries and Territories Working Group Task Team on Capacity Development,_August 2021
FACT SHEET PTWS Working Group 2 TT on Seismic Data Sharing in the SWP _Nov 2021
FACT SHEET PTWS Task Team on Future Goals and Performance Monitoring_Nov 2021
FACT SHEET PTWS Working Group for the Central American Pacific Coast_April 2023
FACT SHEET PTWS Working Group 2 TT on the Integrated PTWS sensor networks for tsunami detection and charac April 2019
FACT SHEET PTWS Working Group 1 Understanding Tsunami Risk_ Sept 2023
ICG-PTWS-XXX-Recommendations-20231121-FINAL - 10 - CLOSURE
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ICG-PTWS-XXX-Report-20250213c-DRAFT2 | 02/04/2025 |
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Report of the ICG/PTWS-Steering Committee meeting (March 2023) | 06/09/2023 |
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IOC/ICG/PTWS-XXIX/3 | Twenty-ninth session of the Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Pacific Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System (ICG/PTWS-XXIX), online, 1-2 and 7-8 December 2021 | 23/02/2023 |
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ICG/PTWS Organisational Structure (15 September 2023) | 22/05/2024 |
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IOC/ICG/PTWS-XXX/3s | Executive Summary Report of the Thirtieth Session of the Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Pacific Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System (ICG/PTWS-XXX), 11–15 September 2023, Nuku’alofa, Tonga | 18/06/2024 |
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There are 81 participants associated with Thirtieth Session of the Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Pacific Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System .
Name | Country |
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STRAUCH Wilfried | Nicaragua |
MIAO Yuelong | Australia |
SINNOTT Dennis | Canada |
OXLEY Arturo | Chile |
YU Fujiang | China |
NGARI Arona | Cook Islands |
LINTHON ALVAREZ Michael | Ecuador |
SCHINDELÉ François | France |
ARIFIN Januar | Indonesia |
USHIDA Shingo | Japan |
ABD AZIZ Azahani | Malaysia |
BALL Roger | New Zealand |
PARK Sun-Cheon | Republic of Korea |
HIRIASIA David | Solomon Islands |
TUITAMA Jewel | Tokelau |
MAKA Mafua-'i-Vai'utukakau | Tonga |
ANGOVE Michael | United States of America |
NIROA John | Vanuatu |
Name | Country |
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WANG Dakui | China |
JAMELOT Anthony | French Polynesia |
TAKEIFANGA Taniela | Tonga |
LUTU-MCMOORE Elinor | American Samoa |
MOSELEY Adrienne | Australia |
SIFON ANDALAFT Matias | Chile |
SHI Jianyu | China |
WANG Peitao | China |
LAM Ching-chi | China |
STRICKLAND John | Cook Islands |
ARREAGA VARGAS Patricia | Ecuador |
RAWACE Laisenia | Fiji |
MULE Saula | Fiji |
RAWACE Laisenia | Fiji |
BARRÉ Céline | France |
QUEMA Stéphane | French Polynesia |
POUSSAC Jérémy | French Polynesia |
KATILI meita | Indonesia |
APRIANI Mila | Indonesia |
KON Yoshitaka | Japan |
BLAND Lara | New Zealand |
MCCURRACH Sarah-Jayne | New Zealand |
FRY Bill | New Zealand |
FROMONT Ashleigh | New Zealand |
SHIN Seulye | Republic of Korea |
LEE Haseong | Republic of Korea |
HIVAE Cornell | Solomon Islands |
FA'ANUNU 'Ofa | Tonga |
TAUNGA Luisa | Tonga |
FIFITA Soane Laitia | Tonga |
MCCREERY Charles | United States of America |
KONG Laura | United States of America |
TITOV Vasily | United States of America |
WEINSTEIN Stuart | United States of America |
STROKER Kelly | United States of America |
ARCOS Nicolas | United States of America |
MOORE Christopher | United States of America |
WEST Susan | United States of America |
AYDLETT Marcus | United States of America |
PURSLEY Jana | United States of America |
GRIDLEY James | United States of America |
CRADDOCK Allison B. | United States of America |
EARLE Paul | United States of America |
ANTFALO Levu | Vanuatu |
Name | Country |
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SINGH Awnesh | Fiji |
PEMHA THINA Dr. Prof. LEBEAU | France |
MELBOURNE Timothy | United States of America |
CHEUNG Kwok Fai | United States of America |
HOWE Bruce | United States of America |
MATTIOLI Glen | United States of America |
RABINOVICH Alexander | Russian Federation |
ACHARYA Raja | India |
BIUKOTO Litea | Fiji |
FOUCH Matthew | United States of America |
MCNAMARA Daniel | United States of America |
HOSSAIN Rayhan | Bangladesh |
RODRIGUEZ CRUZ Ceci | United States of America |
CLARK Stephanie | United States of America |
Name | Country |
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ALIAGA ROSSEL Bernardo | France |
KOROVULAVULA Jiuta | France |
NECMIOGLU Öcal | France |
= Person has applied to participate but has not yet been approved.
Participant Stats:
Total Invited: 81
Confirmed: 80
Not confirmed: 0
Unapproved: 1
Not-participating: 0
Rejected: 0
Label(s): Tsunami Official meeting
Created at 21:40 on 11 May 2023 by Angelos Haidar
Last Updated at 17:42 on 14 Sep 2023 by Bernardo Aliaga Rossel