Regional Training Workshop: Strengthening Tsunami Warning and Emergency Response Standard Operating Procedures

04 - 08 March 2013,

Valparaiso
Chile

Annotated Agenda

1.1 Opening Ceremonies
1.2 Logistics and other administrative items
1.3 Course Overview
2 Tsunami Warning and Emergency Response – Overview
2.1 End-to-End Tsunami Warning and Emergency Response – Overview
2.2 End-to-end Tsunami Warning – Stakeholders, Roles and Responsibilities, Standard Operating Procedures, and their linkages
2.3 Lessons Learned from Past Tsunamis - Warning and Emergency Response
3 Country Presentations - Tsunami Standard Operating Procedures
3.1 Protocolo Regional de Comunicaciones entre los centros de Alerta de Tsunamis del Pacífico Sudeste (by Skype)
3.2 Country Presentations (Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile) - 20 min/country
3.3 Discussion: Challenges for achieving end-to-end TWS: Data, Resources, Communication, Stakeholders, Coordination
3.4 Visit Chile SHOA Tsunami Warning Center
4 Science, Tsunami Standard Operating Procedures, Warning Dissemination
4.1 Earthquake and Tsunami Science - generation, propagation, impact; Pacific and South America Tsunami Hazards
4.10 Report Out: Information Flow SOPs - Media and Public Information
4.11 Use of Exercises in Tsunami Preparedness: International / National / Local Exercises, Types, and Post-Exercise Evaluations, IOC Tsunami Wave Guideline, International (PacWave13), National and Local Exercise
4.12 Tsunami Preparedness - International Perspectives on Education and Awareness
4.13 Tsunami Preparedness - Regional Perspectives on Education and Awareness, Educación y Reducción de Riesgo de por Tsunamis en el Marco de la Educación para el Desarrollo Sostenible
4.14 Evacuation Planning: Role and Value of Tsunami Inundation Modelling
4.15 Vertical Evacuation and Refuge: Progress in Designing Tsunami-Resistant Structures
4.16 Tsunami Warning Decision Support Tools: Earthquake and Sea Level Monitoring, PTWC SMS Alerts, Historical Databases, Tsunami Travel Time Calculation
4.17 PTWC Concept of Operation and Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for Distant, Regional, and Local Tsunamis: Monitoring, Detection and Evaluation, Instrumentation and Methodologies (seismic, sea level, forecasts (travel time, wave height, etc), Data communications, Messages, and Message Dissemination
4.18 PTWC New International Products - Overview - Why, What, When, How
4.2 IOC Pacific Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System
4.3 National Tsunami Warning Centres Standard Operating Procedures - Overview on Routine and Event Operations, Flow Charts, Timelines, Checklists
4.4 Tsunami Emergency Response Standard Operating Procedures - Overview on Stakeholder Roles and Coordination, Event Operations, Timelines, Checklists
4.5 Emergency communication considerations – robustness, reliability, redundancy
4.6 Case Study: Warning Dissemination and Public Alerting – Authoritative agencies, media, and the public – JMA-NHK Warning Dissemination
4.7 Case Study: Warning Dissemination and Public Alerting – Authoritative agencies, media, and the public – Hawaii Emergency Alert System
4.8 Emergency communication 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
4.9 Breakout Groups: Information Flow SOPs - Media and Public Information, and Frequently-asked questions during a tsunami event
5 DAY 3: SESSION 5-TWC
5.b DAY 3: SESSION 5-TER
5.b.1 Public Coastal Evacuations: Alerting and Moving People, Inundation maps, Evacuation Routes and Signage, Safe return
5.b.2 Small Group Exercise - Evacuation Mapping
5.b.3 New PTWC Products: Understanding and Acting on TWC Messages - Use and Limitations
5.b.4 Tsunami Emergency Response – Local Tsunami Threat – Wakayama, Japan Case Study
5.b.5 Community-level Response - International Perspectives, including TsunamiReady, Special Needs Populations,Tourism Sector
5.b.6 Creating SOPs - How to Guidance, Explanation of Templates, Local Threats including Response Processes, Flow Charts and Checklists in SOPs, Discussion, Questions
5.b.7 Creating SOPs - Breakout Group Instructions
5.b.8 Breakout Groups: Using Templates to Create SOPs: General Roles and Responsibilities, Evacuation Checklists, Timeline of Processes and Actions
5.1 Earthquake Seismology (Special Topics) - Magnitudes, Centroid Moment Tensors, Finite Fault Rupture, Slow Earthquakes, Great and Gigantic Earthquakes
5.2 TWC Operations: Real-time seismic monitoring and earthquake source characterization - Techniques – 'Tricks of the Trade', Challenges and Limitations
5.3 TWC Operations: Sea level monitoring, tsunami confirmation - Techniques – 'Tricks of the Trade, Challenges and Limitations
5.4 TWC Operations: Wave forecasting - Techniques - 'Tricks of the Trade, Challenges and Limitations
5.5 PTWC New Products: TWC Understanding – Use and Limitations
5.6 SOP Guidance - How to Guidance, including Analysis Processes, Flow Charts and Checklists. Timeline-driven SOPs, Discussion, Questions
5.7 Creating SOPs - Breakout Group Instructions
5.8 Breakout Groups: Using Templates to Develop Timeline of Processes and Actions as SOPs (Messages, Checklists, Information Dissemination)
6.1 Table Top Exercise – Background and Scenarios for Day 5
6.2 Exercise Set-up according to Stakeholder Warning and Response Groups
6.3 PTWS New Products Tsunami Table Top Exercise
6.4 Post-Exercise Evaluation - Report Preparation
6.5 Post-Exercise Evaluation – Comments, Problems, Improvements
6.6 Toward Building National and Regional Capabilities - Summary Discussion and Next Steps
7 Presentation of Certificates, Closing Ceremony