Nukualofa
Tonga
| 1 | DAY 1: Opening, ICG/PTWS-XXV, Tsunami Early Warning Systems, PTWC Enhanced Products |
| 1.1 | Opening Ceremonies |
| 1.2 | Logistics and Administrative Items, Introductions, Course Overview |
| 1.3 | ICG/PTWS-XXVI Outcomes, specifically for the Southwest Pacific |
| 1.4 | Responding Rapidly and Effectively: Tsunami Warning and Emergency Response Requirements and Timeline-driven SOPs |
| 1.5 | Tonga Tsunami Emergency Response (TER), Overview |
| 1.6 | Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) New Enhanced Products - What, Why, SOPs (Criteria, Formats, Staging) |
| 1.7 | PTWC Enhanced Products - Staging and Explanation of Each Product: Text, Forecast Polygon Map, Graphical Deep-Ocean Energy, Coastal Forecast, Forecast Tables, KMZ file |
| 1.8 | Fuamoto Tsunami Warning Center SOPs using PTWC Enhanced Products |
| 1.9 | PANEL: Tonga Tsunami Readiness – status, gaps, needs |
| 2 | DAY 2: TWC Operations (Earthquake, Tsunami monitoring and forecasting), Warning Decision Support Tools, Awareness and Preparedness |
| 2.1 | Tsunami Warning Center (TWC) Operations: Real-time Earthquake Detection and Fast Source Characterization - Sparse networks, Magnitudes, W-Phase Centroid Moment Tensors – Techniques, Use, Limitations, Challenges |
| 2.2 | TWC Operations: Sea Level Monitoring - Use, Instruments, Limitations, Challenges |
| 2.3 | Building Awareness & Community Preparedness – strategies and examples |
| 2.4 | What do TERs do with TWC information? Challenges in Alerting, Evacuation, and Safe-to-Return (All-Clear) |
| 2.5 | Discussion: Tonga Awareness and Preparedness – status, gaps, needs |
| 3 | DAY 3: NTWC and NDMO SOPs for PTWC Enhanced Products, Evacuation, Awareness, Tsunami Forecasting |
| 3.1 | TWC SOPs: What do TWCs provide to Tsunami Emergency Response (TER) agencies? |
| 3.2 | TER SOPs: Overview of Stakeholder Roles and Coordination, Event Operations, Timelines, Checklists, examples |
| 3.3 | TWC Operations - Decision Support Tools of Monitoring, Detection, Assessment – Earthquakes: Real-time Earthquake Display (CISN), USGS web site (CMT, ShakeMap, PAGER), Sea Level Monitoring (IOC web site, TideTool with Tsunami Travel Times) - demo |
| 3.4 | TWC and TER (SOPs) for PTWC Enhanced Products: Guidance, Flow Charts, Criteria Tables, Timeline-driven SOP, Message Templates. Warning (EQ Magnitude and Forecast thresholds), Evacuation (Land and Marine Threats and Public Safety) |
| 3.5 | PANEL: Tonga SOPs – status, gaps, needs |
| 3.6 | TWC Operations: Travel Time and Wave Amplitude Forecasting - Techniques, Use, Limitations, Uncertainty, Sensitivity Studies (Location, Depth, Magnitude) |
| 4 | DAY 4: Tsunami Hazard Scenarios, Tsunami Exercises on National Threat Decision-making |
| 4.1 | Tsunami Hazard Scenarios around the Pacific - Understanding PTWC Enhanced Products |
| 4.2 | Tsunami Table Top Exercise - Decision-making using PTWC Enhanced Products – Tonga local tsunami scenario |
| 4.3 | Tonga Implementation plan |
| 4.4 | Final Discussion: Tonga Readiness - Questions, Answers, Next Steps |
| 4.5 | Closing Ceremonies |