ITIC TRAINING PROGRAMME - INTERNATIONAL (ITP-INTL) TSUNAMI EVACUATION MAPS, PLANS AND PROCEDURES (TEMPP): TEMPP 1: INUNDATION MODELING AND MAPPING

30 September - 04 October 2019,

Nadi
Fiji

Annotated Agenda

1 Introductions and Course Overview
1.4 Opening, Building Tsunami Community Resilience, Earthquake Seismology
2.1 End-to-end Tsunami Early Warning and community preparedness: UNESCO IOC Tsunami Ready Pilot Programme - Guidelines and Steps
2.2 Preparing for Community Tsunami Evacuations: From Inundation to Evacuation Maps, Response Plans, and Exercises
3.1 Earthquake Seismology - Science
3.2 Earthquake Seismology - Tectonics, Hazards, Impacts
3.3 Pacific Ocean and Pacific Island Historical Seismicity and Tsunami Hazard Sources (far- and near-field)
3.4 Using TsuCAT to quick Tsunami Hazard Assessment
3.5 Tsunami Science 1, Modelling and Forecasting - Overview
4 Using Tsunami Modeling for Hazard Assessment, Earthquake Tsunami Sources
4.1 Using Modelling for Hazard Assessment: I. Introduction to ComMIT/MOST; Installation of software
4.10 Using ComMIT interface for Tsunami Modelling: Features, Model Parameters, Output
4.11 Using ComMIT for Inundation Modeling for Evacuaton: Selecting and running maximum credible earthquake scenarios
4.12 Using ComMIT: Exercise 3. Verifying the model with historical comparisons at gauge locations
4.13 Using ComMIT to Running Custom Propagation Sources
4.14 Using ComMIT: Exercise 4 – Running Custom Propagation Sources
4.15 Using ComMIT for Inundation Modeling for Evacuation: Selecting and running worst case scenarios
4.16 Guidelines for Establishing Tsunami Inundation Areas for regions not modelled or with low hazard
4.2 Using Modelling for Hazard Assessment: II. Introduction to ComMIT/MOST; Checking for successful software installation
4.3 Tsunami Science 2, Modelling and Forecasting; Summary of different models
4.4 Inundation Mapping Modelling Requirements: Earthquake Tsunami Sources, Parameterization
4.5 Using ComMIT: Exercise 1. Sample Hazard Assessment
4.6 Brief Presentation from each study group
4.7 Inundation Modelling Requirements: Ocean Bathymetry and Land Topography Digital Elevation Models (DEMs); Best practices for constructing DEMs
4.8 Inundation Modelling Requirements: Practical recommendations for improving coarse DEMS
4.9 Using ComMIT: Exercise 2 - Global DEM and Usersupplied grids
5.1 QGIS – Introduction, Installation, Brief Tutorial on how to use
5.2 Creating Composite Inundation Map from modeling runs using GIS Software: Importing ComMIT products into QGIS - Example
5.3 Tsunami Hazard Assessment Summary Finalizing Inundation Map – Guidelines for Map Publication (Standard Symbology, Colour, Legend, etc.) and official endorsement – Best Practices and Example
5.4 Making Inundation Map using GIS software - Exercise 5
5.5 Hazard Assessment Products and Hazard Assessment Report - Best practice and example + Making Inundation Map using GIS software - Exercise 5 (cont'd)
5.6 Group Presentations – Final Inundation Map
6 Next Steps
7 Closing, Presentation of Certificates