Instituto Oceanográfico de la Armada del Ecuador
Ave. 25 de Julio, (Avenida de la Marina)
via Puerto Nuevo
Base Naval Sur 5940
Guayaquil
Ecuador
| 1.1 | Opening Ceremonies |
| 1.2 | Logistics and Administrative Items, Introductions, Course Overview |
| 2.1 | ICG/PTWS-XXV Outcomes, specifically for the PTWS Enhanced Products |
| 2.2 | Responding Rapidly and Effectively: Tsunami Warning and Emergency Response Requirements and Timeline-driven SOPs |
| 2.3 | What do Tsunami Warning Centers (TWCs) provide to Tsunami Emergency Response (TER) agencies? |
| 2.4 | What do TERs do with TWC information? Challenges in Alerting, Evacuation, and Safe-to- Return (All-Clear) |
| 2.5 | Comisión Permanente de Pacífico Sur (CPPS) |
| 2.6 | Country SOPs using PTWC Enhanced Products - 10-15 min/country (6 countries: Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador) |
| 2.7 | Discussion: Country Readiness for Changeover - What is left to do, gaps, needs? |
| 3 | DAY 2: TWC Operations, PTWC Enhanced Products, Country Guidance |
| 3.1 | Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) New Enhanced Products Overview – What, Why, SOPs (Criteria, Formats, Staging) |
| 3.2 | TWC Operations: Real-time Earthquake Detection and Fast Source Characterization – Sparse networks, Magnitudes, W-Phase Centroid Moment Tensors – Techniques, Use, Limitations, Challenges |
| 3.3 | TWC Operations: Travel Time and Wave Forecasting – Techniques, Use, Limitations, Challenges, Sensitivity Studies (Location, Depth, Magnitude) |
| 3.4 | PTWC Enhanced Products – Staging and Explanation of Each Product: Text, Forecast Polygon Map, Graphical Deep-Ocean Energy, Coastal Forecast, Forecast Tables, KMZ file |
| 3.5 | National SOP for PTWC Enhanced Products – Guidance and Examples: Flow Charts, Criteria Tables, NTWC Message Templates |
| 3.6 | Using Tsunami Warning Decision Support Tools for Monitoring, Detection, Assessment, Warning, Cancellation, Demonstration of Tide Tool v10.20 with Tsunami Travel Times |
| 3.7 | PTWC Enhanced Products – Guidance on use for National Warnings and Evacuation – Land and Marine Threats and Public Safety |
| 3.8 | Event Timeline-driven SOP – Intl TWC, NTWC, NDMO/DMO actions |
| 4 | DAY 3: Tsunami Hazard Scenarios, Tsunami Exercise |
| 4.1 | Understanding PTWC Enhanced Products - Distant Tsunami Hazard Scenarios |
| 4.2 | Understanding PTWC Enhanced Products - Regional and Local Tsunami Hazard Scenarios |
| 4.3 | Tsunami Table Top Exercise - Decision-making using PTWC Enhanced Products |
| 4.4 | Post-Exercise Evaluation |
| 4.5 | Final Discussion: Country Readiness for Changeover - Questions, Answers, Next Steps |
| 5 | Closing Ceremonies |