United States
| 1 | Opening, Course Overview |
| 1.1 | Opening Welcome and Self-introductions |
| 1.2 | Programme Logistics – Health and Safety, IRC Building and Foreign Visitor Rules, Local Transportation, Coffee/Tea/Lunch Breaks, Information Technology Support |
| 1.3 | Course Overview, Manual, Materials, including Awareness and TW Tools |
| 2 | Tsunami Early Warning, Country Presentations, IOC Tsunami Warning and Mitigation Systems |
| 2.1 | Responding Rapidly and Effectively: Tsunami Warning and Emergency Response Requirements |
| 2.2 | Country Presentations |
| 2.3 | UNESCO IOC Global Tsunami System: Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Pacific 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 Warning Centers |
| 3 | Earthquake and Tsunami Science, ITIC and PTWC visit |
| 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 | ITIC and PTWC visit - overview |
| 4 | Tsunami Hazard Assessment - Hawaii example, Tsunami-resistant Building Design, |
| 4.1 | Tsunami Warning and Mitigation Systems – Hawaii example |
| 4.2 | Tsunami Hazard Risk Assessment: Modeling and Mapping of Tsunami for Inundation and Land Evacuation - Hawaii example |
| 4.3 | Tsunami Hazard Risk Assessment: Modeling and Mapping of Tsunami for Port and Harbor Planning and Response - Hawaii example |
| 4.4 | Mitigation: Ports and Harbors, and Marine Sector Readiness |
| 4.5 | Tsunami Mitigation: Designing buildings to withstand tsunamis - FEMA P646 docs, ASCE 7 2016 and International Building Code 2018. Tsunami Design Zone Maps and Vertical Evacuation - Hawaii example |
| 5 | Tsunami Warning Center and Emergency Response (TWC/TER) and Lessons Learned, Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) |
| 5.1 | 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 |
| 5.2 | Tsunami Emergency Response Overview: What do TER agencies provide to the Public? Challenges in Alerting, Evacuation, Safe-to-Return (All-Clear), and Preparedness |
| 5.3 | Lessons Learned from Past Tsunamis – Warning and Response (Hawaii 1946, 1986, 1994; Chile 1960; Papua New Guinea 1998; Japan 1983/1993; Nicaragua 1992 / Java 2006 / Mentawai 2010; Sumatra 2004; Tonga 2006; American Samoa/Samoa/Tonga 2009; Chile 2010; Japan 2011; Bengkulu 2012; Haida Gwaii 2012; Kaikoura NZ 2016, Palu and Anak Krakatau 2018, Tonga 2022) |
| 5.4 | IOC TWC and TER SOP Manual, End-to-end Tsunami Warning – Stakeholder and their needs, Roles and Responsibilities, Standard Operating Procedures, and their linkages (IOC MG 76) |
| 5.5 | SOPs and Checklists: TWC Templates and examples for Distant, Regional, and Local Tsunamis: Monitoring, Detection and Evaluation, Communications, Message Dissemination (IOC MG 76) |
| 6 | PTWC SOPs |
| 6.1 | Pacific Tsunami Warning Center: Crisis Event SOPs: Earthquake and Sea Level Monitoring (Data networks and acquisition, qualitycontrol/ health status), Earthquake Analysis Methods, Threat Analysis, Forecasting, Products, Dissemination |
| 6.2 | Pacific Tsunami Warning Center: Routine Operations SOPs: Quality Control and redundancy, contingency and backup (PTWC Operations, Systems and Procedures Manual) |
| 7 | PTWC SOPs, TWC Topics - Earthquake Source Characterization, PTWC visit, Tsunami Warning Decision Support Tools, TWC Topics - Sea Level and Tsunami Monitoring |
| 7.1 | TWC Operations: Real-time Earthquake Detection and Fast Source Characterization, Methods and Limitations: Locating Earthquakes (seismometers, seismic stations, sparse networks and hypocentral bias, etc) |
| 7.2 | TWC Operations: Real-time Earthquake Detection and Fast Source Characterization, Methods and Limitations: Estimating Magnitudes (macroscopic intensity and instrumental) |
| 7.3 | TWC Operations: Real-time Earthquake Detection and Fast Source Characterization, Methods and Limitations: Determine Fault Mechanisms (Double-couple 1st motions to WPhase Centroid Moment Tensors) |
| 7.4 | PTWC visit, Tsunami Warning Decision Support Tools - Overview of available tools |
| 7.5 | TWC Operations: Sea Level Monitoring - Methods, Instruments, Limitations, Challenges, UH Sea Level Center, Sea Level Station Instrumentation - 'show-and-tell' |
| 8 | PTWC Enhanced Products, Travel time and Wave Amplitude Forecasting, NTWC and TER Guidance |
| 8.1 | 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 (video and discussion) |
| 8.2 | PTWC Operations: Travel Time Forecasting – Methods, Limitations, Uncertainty, Sensitivity Studies (Location, Depth, Magnitude) |
| 8.3 | PTWC Operations: Wave Amplitude Forecasting – Methods (ATFM, SIFT, RIFT), Limitations, Uncertainty, Sensitivity Studies (Location, Depth, Magnitude) |
| 8.4 | 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) |
| 9 | Hawaii State Emergency Management Agency visit |
| 9.1 | Visit Hawaii State Emergency Management Agency (HI-EMA): Response to PTWC Tsunami Products, Hawaii Emergency Alert System (EAS) and Siren System, Preparedness and Mitigation |
| 10 | Week 2 Planning, TWC Free Choice (SOPs, Tsunami Warning Decision Support Tools, PTWC software demo) |
| 10.1 | Week 2 activities – Using QGIS to create Evacuation Map |
| 10.2 | Review & improve your Review & improve your Country TWC SOP / Checklists. 1-to-1 or small group discussion and question-and-answer on your SOPs. Reference for Day 9 Exercise Hawaii Wave 2023; Install and use Tsunami Warning Decision-Support Tools (CISN, Tide Tool, TTT), Tsunami Coastal Assessment Tool (TsuCAT); PTWC Demonstration. PTWC Operational Tools (SIFT, RIFT, Wphs CMT) |
| 11 | City and County of Honolulu, Dept of Emergency Management visit |
| 11.1 | Visit Honolulu Department of Emergency Management (DEM): County Response to PTWC Tsunami Products, Tsunami Evacuation (vertical), Alert Dissemination / Siren System, Signage, Preparedness and Mitigation, including Tourist and Special needs population readiness |
| 12 | NTWC Competencies, Tsunami Emergency Response (TER) SOPs, Communications, Local Source SOP |
| 12.1 | NTWC Competencies (draft approved at ICG/PTWS-XXVIII, 2019) |
| 12.2 | SOPs and Checklists: TER operations - Example Warning Plans for Coordination of Information Flow and Evacuation (IOC MG 76). Private Sector SOPs. Developing timeline-driven SOPs (Who does What, and When (Roles and Responsibilities)?) |
| 12.3 | Emergency communications - Robustness, reliability, redundancy. Technologies for the downstream transmission of warnings to communities. Case Study: Palu, Indonesia tsunami, 2018 |
| 12.4 | Local-Source Tsunami Response Best Practice (approved at ICG/PTWS-XXVIII, 2019) |
| 13 | UNESCO IOC Tsunami Ready, QGIS |
| 13.1 | Implementing Tsunami Ready programs to recognize community readiness - UNESCO IOC Tsunami Ready Recognition Programme - Guidelines, Recognition Process (IOC MG 74) |
| 13.2 | Improving Response and Managing (reliable and unreliable) Information Flow during an Event: Media and Social Media - Good Practices |
| 13.3 | Learning Activity: Improving Response – Tsunami Warning and Emergency Response - What happens during an event? |
| 13.4 | 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) |
| 14 | Hazard Assessment, Evacuation Maps, Tsunami Ready board game, |
| 14.1 | TR ASSESS-1: Tsunami Hazard Risk Assessment - Data Requirements, Methods, Techniques. Case Study - Using ComMIT / MOST tsunami model for hazard assessment |
| 14.10 | Team Sharing: Creating Public Awareness poster |
| 14.11 | TR PREP5: Building Awareness and Community Preparedness - Tsunami Exercises and Drills, IOC Community Tsunami Exercise Guideline (IOC MG 86), examples |
| 14.12 | Tsunami Ready board game - instruction and playing |
| 14.2 | Hazard Assessment - IOC Regional Efforts on Tsunami Seismic Sources - Caribbean, Central America, South China Sea, Southwest Pacific meeting outcomes, and upcoming plans for Colombia and Ecuador and other locations |
| 14.3 | TR PREP-1: Making Community-based Evacuation Maps, Routes, and Signage - guidance |
| 14.4 | Create Community Evacuation Map - Caribbean and Pacific examples, 'paper and pencil' |
| 14.5 | Evacuation maps when inundation modeling is not possible or practical – Case Study - Caribbean example |
| 14.6 | Create Community Evacuation Map, including routes, signage – Caribbean and Pacific examples QGIS Instructions |
| 14.7 | TR RESP-1 and PREP-5: Making Community Response Plans and Conducting Drills - guidance, how-to, and templates |
| 14.8 | TR PREP-3 and PREP-4: Building Awareness and Community Preparedness - strategies and examples, World Tsunami Awareness Day, Caribbean PAE Strategy and Philippines Development Process, ITIC available materials, Hawaii examples |
| 14.9 | TR PREP-3: Creating Public Awareness Material, including evacuation (poster, presentation, video, etc) |
| 15 | Exercise Hawaii Wave 2023 (EHW-23) |
| 15.1 | Exercise Hawaii Wave 2023 (EHW-23) – Decision-making using PTWC Enhanced Products. EXPLAN: Introduction, Format, Conduct |
| 15.2 | EHW-23 Tsunami Exercise Preparation – "Country" TWC / TER SOPs, Criteria Tables, Response Plans, Alerting, Media, Evacuation, Cancellation, etc |
| 15.3 | EHW-23 Tsunami Exercise – Setup and last instruction |
| 15.4 | EHW-23 Tsunami Exercise – Decision-making using PTWC Enhanced Products |
| 15.5 | EHW-23 Post-Exercise Evaluation – Preparation for Press Conference |
| 15.6 | EHW-23 Tsunami Exercise Hotwash – Press Conference: "Country" brief followed by "Media" / Audience Question-and-Answer |
| 16 | Emerging Technologies |
| 16.1 | Improving Tsunami Warning - Emerging Techniques and Technologies: Earthquake Finite Fault Modeling, PTWC real-time GNSS/GPS detection of co-seismic deformation |
| 16.2 | Improving Tsunami Warning - Emerging Tools and Technologies: ITU/WMO/IOC SMART Cables for Observing the Ocean |
| 16.3 | UN Decade for Ocean Science for Sustainable Development - Tsunamis |
| 17 | Logistics wrap-up |
| 17.1 | ITP-Hawaii 2023 Logistics wrap-up |
| 18 | Summary and Next Steps |
| 18.1 | 2023-2024 Calendar: ICG and TOWS WG Action Items and Priorities |
| 18.2 | 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 |
| 19 | Presentation of Certificates and Closing Ceremony |