ITIC Training Programme— - Hawaii (ITP-HAWAII in CHILE) on Tsunami Early Warning Systems and the PTWC Enhanced Products

01 - 10 August 2018,

Servicio Hidrográfico y Oceanográfico de la Armada
Errazuriz 254

Valparaíso
Chile



Agenda



1.1 Welcome and Introductions
1.2 Programme Logistics – Building, Local Transportation, Coffee/Tea/Lunch Breaks, Internet/Phone/Fax, etc
1.3 Course Overview, Manual, Materials, including Awareness and TW Tools
1.4 UNESCO IOC Global Tsunami System, ICGs; Roles of Tsunami National Contacts, Regional Tsunami Service Providers and Tsunami Information Centers, Tsunami Warning Focal Points, National Tsunami Warning Centers
1.5 ICG/PTWS-XXVII and ICG/CARIBE-EWS-XII actions
1.6 End-to-end Tsunami Warning – Stakeholder and their needs, Roles and Responsibilities, Standard Operating Procedures, and their linkages
1.7 Chile example: ChileTsunami Warning and Mitigation System,Lessons learned from 2010, 2011, 2014 and 2015 tsunamis
2.1 What tsunami science you need to know to warn for and respond to tsunami warnings? Tsunami generation, propagation, and inundation - what, how, when, impact, damage, and mitigating impact
2.2 What earthquake science you need to know to warn for and respond to tsunami warnings? Earthquake Seismology - what, how, when, and damage earthquake causes, etc
2.3 Lessons Learned from Past Tsunamis
2.4 Role of Post-Tsunami Surveys in Tsunami Mitigation. Post-Tsunami Survey Field Guide
3.1 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
3.2 TWC Operations: Real-time Earthquake Detection and Fast Source Characterization, Methods and Limitations: Locating Earthquakes (seismometers, seismic stations, sparse networks and hypocentral bias, etc)
3.3 TWC Operations: Real-time Earthquake Detection and Fast Source Characterization, Methods and Limitations: Estimating Magnitudes (macroscopic intensity and instrumental)
3.4 TWC Operations: Real-time Earthquake Detection and Fast Source Characterization, Methods and Limitations: Determine Fault Mechanisms (Double-couple 1st motions to W-Phase Centroid Moment Tensors)
3.5 TWC Operations: Real-time Earthquake Detection and Fast Source Characterization, Methods and Limitations: Identifying Slow Earthquakes, Landslide-generated tsunamis
3.6 Improving Tsunami Warning - Emerging Techniques and Technologies: Earthquake Finite Fault Modeling, PTWC real-time GNSS/GPS detection of co-seismic deformation
3.7 Improving Tsunami Warning - Emerging Techniques and Technologies: Forecasting the most destructive wave(s), ITU/WMO/IOC SMART Cables for Observing the Ocean
4.1 Group 1: Country Presentations (15 min each, 4 countries/session, alphabetical order)
4.2 Group 2: Country Presentations (15 min each) - 4 countries
4.3 Group 3: Country Presentations (15 min each) - 3 countries
4.4 Group 4: Country Presentations (15 min each) - 3 countries
5.1 Group 1: Chile SNAM TWC operations drill (45 min), Return to hotel
5.2 Group 2: Chile SNAM TWC operations drill (45 min), Return to hotel
5.3 Group 3: Chile SNAM TWC operations drill (45 min), Return to hotel
5.4 Group 4: Chile SNAM TWC operations drill (45 min), Return to hotel
6.1 Global Historical Tsunami Hazards - Pacific, Caribbean, Mediterranean, Indian Ocean; Probabilistic Tsunami Hazard
6.2 IOC Regional Efforts on Tsunami Seismic Sources - Caribbean, Central America, South China Sea meeting outcomes, and upcoming plans for Southwest Pacific, Colombia and Ecuado
6.3 Tsunami Preparedness and Risk Assessment - Methods, Techniques
6.4 Use of Tsunami modeling for hazard and risk assessment - overview
6.5 Tsunami Risk Assessment: Modeling and Mapping of Tsunami Inundation - Chile example
6.6 Closing remarks: Moving forward and getting wiser - Science, engineering and education working together to save lives
7.1 Tsunami Emergency Response Overview: What do TER agencies provide to the Public? Challenges in Alerting, Evacuation, Safe-to-Return (All-Clear), and Preparedness
7.2 Communication technologies for the transmission of tsunami warnings to local governments and communities – robustness, reliability, redundancy criteria for emergency communications, 'Downstream' Communications Process
8.1 Site 1: Campiche - Methods and Role of Paleoseismology and Tsunami Deposits in Tsunami Hazard Assessment
8.2 Site 2: Quintero Bay - Tsunami Hard Countermeasures, Liquefied Natural Gas Quintero Terminal
8.3 Site 3: Quintero Bay Tsunami Response Plan
9 PTWC Enhnaced Products all
9.1 SOPs and Checklists: TWC Templates and examples for Distant, Regional, and Local Tsunamis: Monitoring, Detection and Evaluation, Communications, Message Dissemination
9.2 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; Routine Operations SOPs: Quality Control and redundancy, contingency and backup
9.3 PTWC New Enhanced Products RIFT
9.4 NTWC and TER Guidance on how to use PTWC New Enhanced Products for National Warnings and Evacuation - Land and Marine Threats and Public Safety: Flow Charts, Criteria Tables, Timeline-driven SOPs, Message Templates
9.5 PTWC Operations: Travel Time and Wave Amplitude Forecasting – Methods (ATFM, SIFT, RIFT), Limitations, Uncertainty, Sensitivity Studies (Location, Depth, Magnitude)
9.6 Learning Activities (Groups 1 and 2 switch after 90 min)
10.1 VISIT CHILE NATIONAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY (ONEMI)
10.2 VISIT CHILE NATIONAL SEISMIC MONITORING CENTER (CSN)
11.1 SOPs and Checklists: Case Studies (New Zealand, Japan Wakayama, US California and Hawaii)
11.10 Public Awareness and Community Preparedness - Strategies and Examples, incl Chile example
11.11 TR PREP-2: Creating Public Awareness poster, including evacuation
11.12 Country Sharing: Creating Public Awareness poster
11.13 Catch up or Roles of Media and Social Media in Warning: Case Studies (Japan, Chile)
11.2 HOMEWORK - Learning Activity: Improving Response – Tsunami Warning Chain for Local Scenario - What Happens When
11.3 Catalan ITP Vertical Evacuation
11.4 Mitigation: Ports and Harbors, and Marine Sector Readines
11.5 Role of Ministry of Education in Tsunami Mitigation - Chile example
11.6 Implementing Tsunami Ready (TR) programs to recognize community readiness - Pacific and Caribbean guidelines; Tsunami Evacuation Maps, Plans, and Procedures (TEMPP)
11.7.1.TER TR PREP-1: Making Community-based Evacuation Maps, Routes, and Signage - guidance
11.7.1.TWC Seismology: 1. Discriminating source characteristics from seismograms (shallow, deep, slow, great earthquakes) - 2. Stress, Strain, and Double-couple focal Mechanisms (if not covered by Emile Okal) - 3. Calculating W-phase CMTs. What is CMT, What is a W-phase, How are inversions done
11.8.1.TER1 Create Community Evacuation Map - paper and pencil - Valparaiso, Chile example
11.8.1.TER2 Create Community Evacuation Map, including routes, signage - electronic using QGIS geospatial software - step-by-step instructions
11.8.1.TER3 Create Community Evacuation Map, including routes, signage - QGIS; Valparaiso, Chile example
11.8.1.TWC Tsunami Monitoring Instrumentation: 1. Coastal sea level stations - 2. DART deep-ocean systems - 3. Methods of Data Transmission
11.9 TR RESP-1 and PREP-4: Making Community Response Plans and Conducting Drills - guidance and templates
12.1 Tsunami Exercises
12.2 Exercise Chile Wave 2018 (ECW-18) Tsunami Exercise, Decision-making using PTWC Enhanced Products - Introduction, Format, Conduct
12.3 ECW-18 Tsunami Exercise Preparation - 'Country' TWC / TER SOPs, Criteria Tables, Response Plans, Alerting, Media, Cancellation, etc
12.4 ECW-18 Tsunami Exercise - setup and last instruction
12.5 ECW-18 Tsunami Exercise - Decision-making using PTWC Enhanced Products - Local Scenario
12.6 ECW-18 Tsunami Exercise Hotwash - simulated 'Press Conference
13.1 2018 PTWS Calendar: Action Items and Priorities
13.2 Summary Discussion (Way Forward, Next Steps, Gaps, Needs) - PTWC New Products, SOPs, Preparedness
13.3 ITP-Hawaii in Chile 2018 Logistics wrap-up
14 Presentation of Certificates and Closing Ceremon