Dreams La Romana Hotel
La Romana
Dominican Republic
| 1 | DAY 1 |
| 1.1 | Opening Ceremonies |
| 1.2 | Logistics and other administrative items |
| 2 | Tsunami Warning and Emergency Response – Overview |
| 2.1 | Course Overview |
| 2.2 | End-to-End Tsunami Warning and Emergency Response – Overview |
| 2.3 | Regional Partner Support to the ICG/CARIBE-EWS Tsunami Early Warning System - Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) |
| 2.4 | End-to-end Tsunami Warning – Stakeholders, Roles and Responsibilities, Standard Operating Procedures, and their linkages |
| 2.5 | Lessons Learned from Past Tsunamis - Warning and Emergency Response |
| 3 | Country Presentations - Tsunami Standard Operating Procedures |
| 3.1.A | Country Presentations (Antigua & Barbuda, Bahamas, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Mexico, St Kitts & Nevis, UK Anguilla) - 10 min/country |
| 3.1.B | Country Presentations (UK British Virgin Islands, UK Turks & Caicos, USA Puerto Rico, USA Virgin Islands) - 10 min/country |
| 3.2 | Discussion: Challenges for achieving end-to-end TWS: Data, Resources, Communication, Stakeholders, Coordination, Evacuation |
| 4 | DAY 2 |
| 4-B | Emergency Response, Warning Dissemination |
| 4-C | Exercises, Preparedness, Evacuation |
| 4.1 | Earthquake Seismology for Tsunami Warning - nomenclature, faulting, magnitude |
| 4.10 | Case Study: Warning Dissemination and Public Alerting – Authoritative agencies, media, and the public – JMA-NHK Warning Dissemination |
| 4.11 | Emergency communication considerations and technologies for the downstream transmission of warnings to local governments and communities – TV / FM / HF / Radio, Sirens, Mobile Phones / SMS, Internet email/web, Social Media, etc – robustness, reliability, redundancy |
| 4.12 | Learning Activity (individual followed by group discussion) – Official and Unofficial Information |
| 4.13 | Use of Exercises in Tsunami Preparedness: International / National / Local Exercises, Types, and Post-Exercise Evaluations, IOC Tsunami Wave Guidance, Exercise CARIBE WAVE 2013 |
| 4.14 | Tsunami preparedness and response - International Perspectives, including NZ Get Ready Get Thru, US TsunamiReady programs, Caribbean TsunamiSmart |
| 4.15 | Public Coastal Evacuations: Alerting and Moving People, Inundation Modeling and Maps, Evacuation Routes and Signage, Safe return Evacuation Planning: Role and Value of Tsunami Inundation Modeling |
| 4.16 | Vertical Evacuation and Refuge: Progress in Designing Tsunami-Resistant Structures |
| 4.17 | Learning Activities (individual followed by group discussion) – Tsunami Warning and Emergency Response Timeline - What happens when?, Frequently-asked Questions |
| 4.18 | TWC Operations: Real-time earthquake source characterization and tsunami assessment - Challenges and Limitations |
| 4.19 | TER Operations: Rapid Alerting and Evacuation - Challenges and Limitations |
| 4.2 | Tsunami Science for Tsunami Warning - generation, propagation, impact |
| 4.3 | Tsunami Warning Centre Standard Operating Procedures – Concept of Operations, Overview on Routine and Event Operations, Flow Charts, Timelines, Checklists |
| 4.4 | IOC Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Tsunami and Other Coastal Hazards Warning System for the Caribbean and Adjacent Regions |
| 4.5 | Caribbean Tsunami Hazards - historical and paleotsunami records |
| 4.6 | ICG/CARIBE-EWS International Tsunami Warning Centers - PTWC and US NTWC (WC/ATWC) Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for Monitoring and Detection of Earthquakes and Tsunamis, Evaluation of Tsunami Threat, Forecasting, Types of Products, and Message Dissemination |
| 4.7 | Tsunami Warning Decision Support Tools: Earthquake and Sea Level Monitoring, PTWC SMS Alerts, Historical Databases, Tsunami Travel Time Calculation. (Installation and Training as needed during unscheduled times) |
| 4.8 | Tsunami Emergency Response Standard Operating Procedures - Overview on Stakeholder Roles and Coordination, Event Operations, Timelines, Checklists |
| 4.9 | Case Study: Warning Dissemination and Public Alerting – Authoritative agencies, media, and the public – US Emergency Alert System, Hawaii example |
| 5 | PTWC Tsunami Warning Operations - PTWC New Products |
| 5.1 | PTWC Proposed ICG/CARIBE-EWS Enhanced Products: Overview - Why, What, When and How to Use, Limitations |
| 5.2 | PTWC Proposed ICG/CARIBE-EWS Enhanced Products: Discussion and Feedback |
| 6.1 | Earthquake Seismology - W-phase Centroid Moment Tensors, Finite Fault Rupture, Slow Earthquakes, Great and Gigantic Earthquakes |
| 6.1.B | Small Group Exercise - Evacuation Mapping |
| 6.2 | Tsunami forecasting (Travel Time and Wave Height) - Techniques, Use and Limitations, Future Directions |
| 6.2.B | Community-level preparedness and education – Schools and businesses, Special Needs Populations, Tourism Sector |
| 6.3 | Creating Timeline-driven SOPs - How to Guidance, Explanation of Warning Center Templates for Distant and Local Threats, Flow Charts and Checklists. |
| 6.3.B | Tsunami Emergency Response – Local Tsunami Threat – Wakayama, Japan Case Study |
| 6.4 | SOP Breakout Groups: Using Templates to Develop Timeline of Processes and Actions (Criteria for Action, Messages, Checklists, Information Dissemination, Media Information) |
| 6.4.B | Creating Timeline-driven SOPs - How to Guidance, Explanation of Response Templates for Distant and Local Threats, Flow Charts and Checklists |
| 6.5 | Breakout Groups Report Out and Discussion - SOPs |
| 6.5.B | SOP Breakout Groups: Using Templates to Develop General Roles and Responsibilities and Timeline of Processes and Actions (Criteria for Action, Evacuation Checklists, Information Dissemination, Media Information) |
| 6.6.B | Breakout Groups Report Out and Discussion - SOPs |
| 7 | DAY 4 |
| 7.1 | Table Top Exercise – Background and Scenarios for Day 5 |
| 7.2 | Exercise Set-up according to Stakeholder Warning and Response Groups |
| 7.3 | CARIBE-EWS Tsunami Exercise - PTWC and WC/ATWC messages |
| 7.4 | Post-Exercise Evaluation - Report Preparation Instructions |
| 7.5 | Post-Exercise Evaluation - Report Preparation |
| 7.6 | Post-Exercise Evaluation Hotwash – Comments, Problems, Improvements |
| 7.7 | Toward Building National and Regional Capabilities - Summary Discussion and Next Steps |
| 8 | Presentation of Certificates, Closing Ceremony |