Experts Meeting “Tsunami Hazard in Central America: Historical Events and Potential Sources”
Tsunami Hazard in Central America
Workshop
23 - 24 June 2016
UNESCO San Jose
Calle 28, Paseo Colón
San José
Costa Rica
Organizer & Staff
Participation
By invitation only.
Central America lies between two oceans: Pacific and Atlantic through the Caribbean Sea. Although it has no records of great earthquakes (~8.0 to 9.0) resulting on tsunami threat, a tsunami catalogue for Central America counts more than 50 entries based on historical references. Tsunamis caused damage and casualties in 1882 off the Caribbean coast of Panama, in 1991 in Costa Rica and Panama and in 1992 in the Pacific coast of Nicaragua. Coastal population has largely increased in recent decades, along with the tourism, increasing the exposure to tsunami. Central America tsunami preparedness is improving: some of the Central American countries have a National Tsunami Warning System, a Regional Tsunami Advisory Center (CATAC, at INETER in Nicaragua) is under development, deployment of tidal gauges is improving and the region was chosen for the pilot course on Tsunami Evacuation Maps, Plans and Procedures by the Pacific Ocean Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System (PTWS). The aim of this meeting is the identification of credible sources of tsunamis that could significantly impact the Pacific and Caribbean Coasts of Central America that can be used for tsunami modelling, evacuation mapping, planning and exercises. The outcomes of this meeting will be a key input to the project "Building resilient communities and integrated Early Warning Systems for tsunamis and other ocean related hazards in Central America" funded by the European Commission's Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection department (ECHO.
[View an annotated printable version of this agenda]
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Tsunami Hazard in Central America: Historical Events and Potential Sources. San José, Costa Rica, 23–24 June 2016 | 18/02/2019 |
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Source-Scaling Relations of Interface Subduction Earthquakes for Strong Ground Motion and Tsunami Simulation | 14/06/2016 |
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Seismic Source Parameters for Earthquake and Tsunami Modeling for CARIBE WAVE exercises | 14/06/2016 |
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TEMPP 2 TRAINING – SUMMARY REPORT- SEISMIC TSUNAMI SOURCES FOR HONDURAS, 29 FEBRUARY - 1 MARCH 2016 | 22/06/2016 |
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DRAFT Agenda Experts Meeting Tsunami Hazard in Central America | 28/05/2016 |
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Central America Tsunami Hazard Assessment Experts Meeting_June 2016_Participants | 28/05/2016 |
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Central America Tsunami Hazard Assessment Experts Meeting_June 2016_Concept Note | 28/05/2016 |
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IOC/2013/WR/255 | Earthquake and tsunami hazard in Northern Haiti: historical events and potential sources | 21/01/2014 |
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[View a printable participants list]
Name | Country |
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ALIAGA ROSSEL Bernardo | France |
ALVAREZ GOMEZ Jose | Spain |
CAMACHO ASTIGARRABIA Eduardo Isaias | Panama |
CHACON BARRANTES Silvia | Costa Rica |
ESCOBAR F. Jose Jorge | Honduras |
GIRALDO Marco Antonio | Costa Rica |
HUERFANO Victor | Puerto Rico |
IRABU Shusuke | El Salvador |
KAWAHIGASHI Eiji | El Salvador |
LAY Thorne | United States of America |
LUQUE Nestor | Panama |
MARROQUIN Griselda | El Salvador |
MENDOZA Diana Patricia | Colombia |
MEYER Hansjürgen | Colombia |
OKAL Emile | United States of America |
PACHECO Javier Francisco | Costa Rica |
PETERSEN Mark | United States of America |
PROTTI Marino | Costa Rica |
ROJAS Wilfredo | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland |
STRAUCH Wilfried | Nicaragua |
TALAVERA Emilio | Nicaragua |
TITOV Vasily | United States of America |
VON HILLEBRANDT-ANDRADE Christa | United States of America |
ZAMORA Natalia | Spain |
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Participant Stats:
Total Invited: 24
Confirmed: 22
Not confirmed: 1
Unapproved: 0
Not-participating: 1
Rejected: 0
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Created at 00:35 on 02 Apr 2016 by Bernardo Aliaga Rossel
Last Updated at 14:59 on 24 Apr 2024 by Sofie de Baenst