Honolulu, Hawaii
United States
| 1 | Opening, Country Presentations |
| 1.1 | Opening Welcome and Introductions |
| 1.2 | Programme Logistics - IRC Building, Local Transportation, Coffee/Tea/Lunch Breaks, Internet/Phone/Fax, Foreign Visitor Forms, etc |
| 1.3 | Course Overview, Manual, Materials, including Awareness and TW Tools |
| 2 | Country Presentations, IOC, Tsunami EarlyWarning System Overview |
| 2.1 | Responding Rapidly and Effectively: Tsunami Warning and Emergency Response Requirements |
| 2.2 | Country Presenations |
| 2.3 | UNESCO IOC Global Tsunami System: Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Pacifie Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System (ICG/PTWS); Roles of Tsunami National Contacts, Regional Tsunami Service Providers and Tsunami Information Centers, Tsunami Warning Focal Points, National Tsunami Waming Centers |
| 3 | Earthquake Seismology and Tsunami Science, Tsunami Hazard Assessment |
| 3.1 | What earthquake science you need to know to warn for and respond to tsunami warnings? Earthquake Seismology – what, where, how, when, and damage caused |
| 3.2 | What tsunami science you need to know to warn for and respond to tsunami warnings? Tsunami generation, propagation, and inundation - what, where, how, when, and damage caused |
| 3.3 | Tsunami Warning and Mitigation Systems - Hawaii example |
| 3.4 | Tsunami Hazard Risk Assessment: Modeling and Mapping of Tsunami for Inundation and Land Evacuation - Hawaii example |
| 3.5 | Tsunami Hazard Risk Assessment: Modeling and Mapping of Tsunami for Port and Harbor Planning and Response - Hawaii example |
| 4 | Tsunami Warning Center and Emergency Response (TWC/TER) - Lessons Learned |
| 4.1 | Tsunami Warning Center Overview: What do Tsunami Warning Centers (TWCs) do? What do TWCs provide to Tsunami Emergency Response (TER) agencies? Challenges in Detection and Tsunami Threat Assessment |
| 4.2 | Lessons Learned from Past Tsunamis - Warning (Hawaii 1946-1994; Chile 1960; Nicaragua 1992 / Java 2006 / Mentawai 2010; Sumatra 2004; Tonga 2006; Samoa/Tonga 2009 (doublet); Chile 2010; Japan 2011; Bengkulu 2012; Haida Gwaii 2012; Kaikoura NZ 2016, Indonesia 2018) |
| 4.3 | Tsunami Emergency Response Overview: What do TER agencies provide to the Public? Challenges in Alerting, Evacuation, Safe-to-Return (All-Clear), and Preparedness |
| 4.4 | Lessons Learned from Past Tsunamis - Response (Hawaii 1986, 1994; Samoa/American Samoa 2009; Chile 2010; Japan 2011, Palu Indonesia 2018) |
| 5 | Hawaii State Emergency Management Agency visit |
| 5.1 | Visit Hawaii State Emergency Management Agency (HI-EMA): Response to PTWC Tsunami Products, Hawaii Emergency Alert System (EAS) and Siren System |
| 6 | TWC Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), PTWC SOPs and visit. TWC Topics - Earthquake Source Characterization and Monitoring, Tsunami Monitoring PTWC Enhanced Products, Travel time and Wave Amplitude Forecasting |
| 6.1 | IOC TWC and TER SOP Manual, End-to-end Tsunami Warning – Stakeholder and their needs, Roles and Responsibilities, Standard Operating Procedures, and their linkages |
| 6.10 | TWC Operations: Real-time Earthquake Detection and Fast Source Characterization, Methods and Limitations: Estimating Magnitudes (macroscopic intensity and instrumental) |
| 6.11 | TWC Operations: Real-time Earthquake Detection and Fast Source Characterization, Methods and Limitations: Determine Fault Mechanisms (Double-couple 1st motions to W-Phase Centroid Moment Tensors) |
| 6.12 | NTWC Competencies (draft approved at ICG/PTWS-XXVIII, 2019) |
| 6.2 | SOPs and Checklists: TWC Templates and examples for Distant, Regional, and Local Tsunamis: Monitoring, Detection and Evaluation, Communications, Message Dissemination (IOC MG 76) |
| 6.2.1 | HOMEWORK - Review & improve country TWC SOP / Checklists (especially for local/regional threat). To be used for Day 8 exercise |
| 6.3 | Pacific Tsunami Warning Center: Crisis Event SOPs: Earthquake and Sea Level Monitoring (Data networks and acquisition, quality-control/health status), Earthquake Analysis Methods, Threat Analysis, Forecasting, Products, Dissemination; Routine Operations SOPs: Quality Control and redundancy, contingency and backup. (PTWC Operations, Systems and Procedures Manual) |
| 6.4 | Visit PTWC - data networks and acquisition, monitoring, analysis, quality-control/health status, communication and dissemination, redundancy, contingency/backup, etc |
| 6.5 | TWC Operations: Sea Level Monitoring - Methods, Instruments, Limitations, Challenges |
| 6.6 | Pacific Tsunami Warning Center Enhanced Products - Why, What, Criteria, Staging of Products; Explanation of Each Product: Public Text, Graphical Deep-Ocean Tsunami Amplitude, Coastal Tsunami Amplitude, Coastal Tsunami Amplitude Polygons, Tsunami Amplitude Statistics, Coastal Tsunami Amplitude KMZ file |
| 6.7 | PTWC Operations: Travel Time Forecasting – Methods, Limitations, Uncertainty, Sensitivity Studies (Location, Depth, Magnitude) |
| 6.8 | PTWC Operations: Wave Amplitude Forecasting – Methods (ATFM, SIFT, RIFT), Limitations, Uncertainty, Sensitivity Studies (Location, Depth, Magnitude) |
| 6.9 | TWC Operations: Real-time Earthquake Detection and Fast Source Characterization, Methods and Limitations: Locating Earthquakes (seismometers, seismic stations, sparse networks and hypocentral bias, etc) |
| 7 | Travel time and Wave Amplitude Forecasting, Tsunami Warning Decision Support Tools, TsuCAT |
| 7.1 | Tsunami Warning Decision-Support Tools - Overview: Message Alerts, (CISN, USGS web site (CMT, ShakeMap, PAGER, Sea level monitoring (Tide Tool, IOC Sea Level Monitoring web site); Global Historical Tsunami Databases (WDS/NCEI web tools), Tsunami Travel Time (TTT) calculation, TsuCAT |
| 7.2 | 2 Groups: 1. Tsunami Warning Decision-Support Tools (CISN, Tide Tool, TTT) - laptop installation. 2. PTWC Operational Tools (SIFT, RIFT, Wphs CMT) - demonstration |
| 7.3 | Tsunami Coastal Assessment Tool (TsuCAT) - Demonstration, Installation, Use |
| 8 | Tsunami Emergency Response (TER) SOPs, Communications, Media and Social Media, Transient Population Readiness |
| 8.1 | NTWC and TER Guidance on how to use PTWC Enhanced Products for National Warnings and Evacuation - Land and Marine Threats and Public Safety: Flow Charts, Criteria Tables, Timeline-driven SOPs, Message Templates (IOC MG 76) |
| 8.2 | SOPs and Checklists: TER operations - Example Warning Plans for Coordination of Information Flow and Evacuation (IOC MG 76). Private Sector SOPs. Developing timelinedriven SOPs (Who does What, and When (Roles and Responsibilities)?) |
| 8.3 | Local-Source Tsunami Response Best Practice (approved at ICG/PTWS-XXVIII, 2019) |
| 8.4 | Emergency communications - Robustness, reliability, redundancy. Technologies for the downstream transmission of warnings to communities. |
| 8.5 | Tsunami Evacuation, Tourist and Special Needs Population Readiness: Case Study, City & County of Honolulu |
| 8.6 | Improving Response and Managing (reliable and unreliable) Information Flow during an Event: Roles of Media and Social Media - Case Studies |
| 8.7 | HOMEWORK - Review & improve country TER SOP / Checklists (especially for local/regional threat) and Media SOP. To be used for Day 8 exercise |
| 8.8 | Learning Activity: Improving Response – Tsunami Warning and Emergency Response - What happens during an event? |
| 8.9 | Tsunami Mitigation: Designing buildings to withstand tsunamis - ASCE 7 2016, International Building Code 2018, and FEMA P-646 rev 3 (2019) |
| 9 | Tsunami-resistant building design, UNESCO IOC Tsunami Ready |
| 9.1 | Implementing Tsunami Ready programs to recognize community readiness - Guidelines, Recognition Process (IOC MG draft) |
| 9.2 | HOMEWORK - QGIS installation and familiarization - instructions. QGIS installation - troubleshooting. |
| 9.3 | Building Awareness and Community Preparedness - Tsunami Evacuation Planning - considerations and requirements. Preparing for Community Tsunami Evacuations: from inundation to evacuation maps, response plans and exercises (IOC MG 82) |
| 10 | Hazard Assessment, Inundation Mapping |
| 10.1 | Tsunami Hazard Assessment - Methods, Techniques |
| 10.2 | Global Historical Tsunami Hazards - Pacific, Caribbean, Mediterranean, Indian Ocean; Probabilistic Earthquake and Tsunami Hazard |
| 10.3 | IOC Regional Efforts on Tsunami Seismic Sources - Caribbean, Central America, South China Sea, Southwest Pacific meeting outcomes, and upcoming plans for Colombia and Ecuador |
| 10.4 | Use of Tsunami modeling for hazard and risk assessment. Case Study: Using ComMIT / MOST for hazard assessment and TsuCAT for exercise development |
| 11 | Evacuation Mapping |
| 11.1 | TR PREP-1: Making Community-based Evacuation Maps, Routes, and Signage - guidance |
| 11.2 | Create Community Evacuation Map - paper and pencil - Valparaiso, Chile example |
| 11.3 | Create Community Evacuation Map, including routes, signage - QGIS instructions |
| 11.4 | Create Community Evacuation Map, including routes, signage - QGIS; Valparaiso, Chile example |
| 12 | Response Planning |
| 12.1 | TR RESP-1 and PREP-4: Making Community Response Plans and Conducting Drills - guidance, how-to, and templates |
| 12.2 | Create Community Response Plan using guidance, how-to, and templates |
| 13 | Awareness |
| 13.1 | Building Awareness and Community Preparedness - strategies and examples, Caribbean PAE Strategy and Philippines Development Process, ITIC available materials, Hawaii examples |
| 13.2 | TR PREP-2: Creating Public Awareness poster, including evacuation |
| 13.3 | Create Public Awareness poster, including evacuation |
| 13.4 | Team Sharing: Creating Public Awareness poster |
| 14 | Awareness, Exercises, Exercise Hawaii Wave 2019 (EHW-19), EHW-19 Press Conference |
| 14.1 | Building Awareness and Community Preparedness – Tsunami Exercises and Drills, IOC Tsunami Exercise Guideline, examples |
| 14.2 | Exercise Hawaii Wave 2019 (EHW-19) Tsunami Exercise, Decision-making using PTWC Enhanced Products - Introduction, Format, Conduct |
| 14.3 | ECW-18 Tsunami Exercise Preparation - 'Country' TWC / TER SOPs, Criteria Tables, Response Plans, Alerting, Media, Evacuation, Cancellation, etc |
| 14.4 | EHW-19 Tsunami Exercise - setup and last instruction |
| 14.5 | EHW-19 Tsunami Exercise - Decision-making using PTWC Enhanced Products |
| 14.6 | Post-Exercise Evaluation - preparation for Press Conference |
| 14.7 | EHW-19 Tsunami Exercise Hotwash - Press Conference: 'Country' brief followed by 'Media' / Audience Question-and- Answer |
| 15 | Emerging Tools and Technologies, Logistics wrap-up |
| 15.1 | Improving Tsunami Warning – Emerging Techniques and Technologies: Earthquake Finite Fault Modeling, PTWC real-time GNSS/GPS detection of coseismic deformation |
| 15.2 | Improving Tsunami Warning - Emerging Tools and Technologies: ITU/WMO/IOC SMART Cables for Observing the Ocean |
| 15.3 | UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development - Tsunamis |
| 16 | ITP-Hawaii 2019 Logistics wrap-up |
| 17 | Summary and Next Steps, Closing |
| 17.1 | 2019-2020 Calendar: ICG and TOWS Action Items and Priorities |
| 17.2 | Summary Discussion (Way Forward, Next Steps, Gaps and Needs): UNESCO IOC Tsunami Ready, World Tsunami Awareness Day, UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development |
| 18 | Presentation of Certificates and Closing Ceremony |