Radisson Cartagena Ocean Pavillion Hotel
Cartagena de Indias, Colombia,
Colombia
| 1.1 | Opening Ceremony |
| 1.2 | Logistics and Administrative Items, Introductions |
| 1.3 | Course Overview |
| 1.4 | ICG/CARIBE EWS-XII Outcomes |
| 2.1 | Responding Rapidly and Effectively: Tsunami Warning and Emergency Response Requirements and Timeline-driven SOPs |
| 2.2 | Key Stakeholders: Tsunami Warning Center SOPs - What do Tsunami Warning Centers (TWCs) provide to Tsunami Emergency Response (TER) agencies? Challenges in Detection and Tsunami Threat |
| 2.3 | Key Stakeholders: Tsunami Emergency Response SOPs: What do TER agencies provide to the Public? Challenges in Alerting, Evacuation, and Safe-to-Return (All-Clear) |
| 3.1 | Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) Enhanced Products Overview - What, Why, SOPs (Criteria, Formats) |
| 3.2 | PTWC Enhanced Products - Staging |
| 3.3 | PTWC Enhanced Products - Explanation of Product: |
| 3.4 | ICG/CARIBE-EWS Country SOPs - Readiness, Gaps, Actions |
| 4.1 | TWC Operations: Seismic Monitoring in the Caribbean |
| 4.2 | TWC Operations: Real-time Earthquake Detection and Fast Source Characterization - Sparse networks, Magnitudes, W-Phase Centroid Moment Tensors – Techniques, Limitations, Challenges |
| 4.3 | Demonstration: Decision Support Tools of Monitoring, Detection, Assessment – Earthquakes: Real-time Earthquake Display (CISN), USGS web site (CMT, ShakeMap, PAGER) |
| 4.4 | TWC Operations: Sea Level Monitoring in the Caribbean, Instruments, Limitations, Challenges |
| 4.5 | Demonstration: Decision Support Tools of Monitoring, Detection, Assessment – Tsunamis: TideTool with Tsunami Travel Times, IOC Sea Level Monitoring Facility web site |
| 4.6 | TWC Operations: Travel Time and Wave Amplitude Forecasting – Techniques, Limitations, Uncertainty, Sensitivity Studies |
| 5.1 | TWC 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 |
| 5.2 | Activity: Developing Country SOPs for the PTWC Enhanced Products - Warning Communications Flow Chart, Criteria Tables |
| 5.3 | Activity: Improving Response – What Happens When? Timeline-drive SOPs for Local Scenario |
| 6.1 | Day 1 & 2 Follow-Up |
| 6.2 | Tsunami Hazard Scenarios for the Caribbean – Understanding PTWC Enhanced Products |
| 6.3 | Tsunami Table Top Exercise - Decision-making using PTWC Enhanced Products, Regional Scenario |
| 6.4 | Tsunami Table Top Exercise –Debrief and Hotwash |
| 6.5 | Tsunami Exercises, CARIBEWAVE18 |
| 6.6 | Summary Discussion: Country Readiness for PTWC Enhanced Products |
| 7 | Closing Ceremonies |