Ministry of Civil Defence & Emergency Management
PO Box 5010
Wellington
New Zealand
| 1 | DAY 1 |
| 1.1 | Tsunami Warning and Emergency Response – Overview |
| 1.2 | Successful End-to-End Tsunami Warning – Stakeholders, Standard Operating Procedures, and Requirements |
| 1.3 | Warning and Emergency Response Lessons Learned from Past Tsunamis - What to do and what not to do |
| 1.4 | Country Presentations - TWC and TER SOPs / Challenges - 10 min/country |
| 1.5 | Discussion: Challenges for successful end-to-end Tsunami Warning: Data, Resources, Communication, Stakeholders, Coordination, Evacuation |
| 2 | DAY 2 |
| 2.1 | National Tsunami Warning Centres Standard Operating Procedures - Overview on Routine and Event Operations, Flow Charts, Timelines, Checklists |
| 2.2 | Tsunami Emergency Response Standard Operating Procedures - Overview on Stakeholder Roles and Coordination, Event Operations, Timelines, Checklists |
| 2.3 | Emergency communication considerations – robustness, reliability, redundancy |
| 2.4 | Case Study: Warning Dissemination and Public Alerting – Authoritative agencies, media, and the public – Hawaii Emergency Alert System, and/or Japan JMA-NHK Alert System |
| 2.5 | Evacuation Planning and Conduct - Requirements and Considerations (include Role and Value of Tsunami Inundation Modelling), When is it Safe to Return (All-Clear)? |
| 2.6 | Tsunami Warning Decision Support Tools: Earthquake and Sea Level Monitoring, PTWC SMS Alerts, Historical Databases, Tsunami Travel Time Calculation |
| 2.7 | Tsunami Warning and Emergency Response Timeline - What happens when? exercise |
| 2.8 | PTWS Pacific Tsunami Warning Center Current Criteria and SOPs for issuing Warnings and Watches - Typical PTWS Fixed and Expanding Tsunami Warning Events |
| 2.9 | PTWC New Enhanced International Protocols and Products - Overview - Why, What, When, How |
| 3 | DAY 3: TSUNAMI EXERCISE - PTWC NEW PRODUCTS |
| 3.1 | The Enhanced Products - What they are and What they mean. Text Message, Forecast Polygon Map, Forecast Polygon Table, Energy Forecast Map, Coastal Forecast Map, Coastal KMZ file |
| 3.2 | Staging: Expected Product Issue Time and Type of Products based on Wave Forecast Threat Level |
| 3.3 | TWC Understanding of Enhanced Products - What you need to know on how to use use them and their limitations, particularly for wave forecasting |
| 3.4 | TER Understanding of Enhanced Products - Threat Levels and Public Safety Guidance |
| 3.5 | SOP Guidance - How to Guidance, including Analysis Processes, Flow Charts and Checklists. Timeline-driven SOPs, Discussion and Questions |
| 3.6 | Tsunami Exercise Preparation: Creating SOPs Breakout Groups - Using Templates to Develop Timeline of Processes and Actions as SOPs (Messages, Checklists, Information Dissemination, Evacuation, Safe-to-Return) |
| 3.7 | Tsunami Exercise – Background and Scenarios for Day 4 |
| 4 | DAY 4: TSUNAMI EXERCISE, REGIONAL CONSULTATION |
| 4.1 | Exercise Set-up according to Stakeholder Warning and Response Groups |
| 4.2 | Tsunami Exercise on PTWC Enhanced Products |
| 4.3 | PTWS WG 2 Task Team on Enhanced Products: Consultation Overview, Goals and Outcomes |
| 4.4 | PTWC Enhanced Products Feedback - Summary to Date: PacWave13 Post-Exercise Evaluation - Summary Feedback Post-exercise evaluation of this morning's exercise |
| 4.5 | Feedback: Products - Overall on Format, Content, Usefulness, Staging, Understanding |
| 4.6 | Feedback: Products - Specific: Text Message, Forecast Polygon Map, Forecast Polygon Table, Energy Forecast Map, Coastal Forecast Map, Coastal KMZ file |
| 5 | DAY 5 |
| 5.1 | Feedback: Public Release: Which, if any, products can be made public? |
| 5.2 | Feedback: Understanding, Use, Limitations: TWC, DMO, other response stakeholders, public |
| 5.3 | Feedback: Issuance of Warnings by Country: Modification of SOPs - Ready, or not ready and why not? What is needed? Training, outreach materials, other challenges? |
| 5.4 | Adoption of Consultation document |