National Marine Environmental Forecasting Center (NMEFC) / State Oceanic Administration
No.8 Dahuisi Road, Haidian District
Beijing
100081
China
| 1 | Regional Training - Overview, PTWS-XXVII, Warning and Emergency Response |
| 1.1 | Regional Training - Opening Ceremonies |
| 1.2 | Logistics and Administrative Items, Introductions, Course Overview |
| 1.3 | ICG/PTWS-XXVII Outcomes, specifically for the PTWS Enhanced Products |
| 1.3.1 | Ref: ICG/PTWS-XXVII Summary Report (2017) |
| 1.4 | Responding Rapidly and Effectively: Tsunami Warning and Emergency Response Requirements and Timeline-driven SOPs |
| 1.4.1 | Ref: 1. TEWS Overview course manual (2017) |
| 1.4.2 | Ref: 2. Plans and Procedures for Tsunami Warning and Emergency Mangement, Guidance for coutries in strengthening tsunami warning and emergency response through the development of Plans and Standard Operating Procedures for their warning and emergency management authorities (IOC MG 76, 2017) |
| 2 | Regional Tsunami Sources, Country SOPs |
| 2.1 | Seisomtectonics and Historical and Potential Tsunami Hazards for the South China Sea region |
| 2.1.1 | Ref: 1. SCS_4_Item_5_Literature_Study_of_Tsunami_Risk_in_SCS_and its_Adjacent_Regions_Hongwei_Li.pdf |
| 2.1.2 | Ref: 2. SCS_4_Item_5_Report_on_survey_on_papers_relevant_to_SCS_tsunamigenic_zonesidentificacion_and_paleotsunami |
| 2.1.3 | Ref: 3. Final Report - Scientific meeting of experts for coordinated scenario analysis fo future tsunami events and hazard mitigation schemes for the South China sea region, Meeting of Experts, Hanoi, Vietnam, 15-17 February 2017 |
| 2.1.4 | Ref: 4. … (published journal paper for Manila Trench and South China Sea region) |
| 2.1.5 | Ref: South China Sea Region Seismic and Tsunami Hazards |
| 2.2 | Country SOPs using SCSTAC, NWPTAC, and PTWC Products - 10-15 min/country (10 countries: Brunei Darussalam, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam) |
| 2.3 | Discussion: Country Readiness for Changeover - What is left to do, gaps, needs? |
| 3 | Warning and Response - What is Available and What is Wanted? / PTWC, NWPTAC, SCSTAC SOPs |
| 3.1 | What do Tsunami Warning Centers (TWCs) provide to Tsunami Emergency Response (TER) agencies? |
| 3.1.1 | TEWS Overview course manual (2017) |
| 3.1.2 | Plans and Proedures for Tusnami Warning and Emergency Management, Guidance for countries in Strenghtening tsunami waring and emergency response through the development of Plans and Standard Operating Procedures for their warning and emergency management authorities (IOC MG 76,2017) |
| 3.2 | What do TERs do with TWC information? Challenges in Alerting, Evacuation, and Safe-to-Return (All-Clear) |
| 3.2.1 | Ref: TEWS Overview course manual (2017) |
| 3.2.2 | Ref: Plans and Procedures for Tsunami Warning and Emergency Management (IOC MG 76, 2017) |
| 3.2.3 | Ref: Tsunami prepardness: information guide for disaster planners, (IOC, MG 49, 2008) |
| 3.3 | Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) New Enhanced Products - What, Why, SOPs (Criteria, Formats, Staging, Products) |
| 3.3.1 | Ref: User's Guide for the PTWC Enhanced Products for the PTWS (IOC TS 105 rev, Aug 2014), English, corr 14 Oct 2014 PTWC Operations, Systems and Procedures Manual, v1.3.5 (2011) |
| 3.3.2 | Ref: PTWC Operations, Systems and Procedures Manual, v1.3.5 (2011) |
| 3.4 | Northwest Pacific Tsunami Advisory Center (NWPTAC) New Enhanced Products - What, Why, SOPs (Criteria, Formats, Staging, Products) |
| 3.4.1 | Ref: NWPTAC Enhanced Products User's Guide (2016) |
| 3.4.2 | Ref: Manual on Experimental NWPTAC Enhanced Products for PacWave 16 (draft) |
| 3.5 | South China Sea Tsunami Advisory Center (SCSTAC) Products - What, Why, SOPs (Criteria, Formats, Staging, Products) |
| 3.5.1 | Ref: 1. Tsunami Advisory Products for the South China Sea Regional Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System ( IOC CL 2655, Annex 1 ) |
| 3.5.2 | Ref: 2. FINAL of (draft 6_Arrangement_for_Consistency_of_Earthquake_Parameters_among_PTWC_NWPTAC_and_SCSTAC_within_the_South_China_Sea_region-201802) |
| 3.5.3 | Ref: 3. SCS Working Group and SCSTAC Task Team Summary Reports, esp decisions and actions |
| 4 | Warning Dissemination, Evacuation, Preparedness |
| 4.1 | National SOP for TSP Enhanced Products - Guidance and Examples: Flow Charts, Criteria Tables, Timeline-driven SOPs, NTWC Message Templates, Guidance on use for National Warnings and Evacuation - Land and Marine Threats and Public Safety |
| 4.1.1 | User's Guide for the PTWC Enhanced Products for the PTWS (IOC TS 105 rev, Aug 2014), English, corr 14 Oct 2014 |
| 4.2 | Case Studies: Waring Dissemination and Public Alerting - Requirements for JMA Tsunami Warning Service |
| 4.3 | Case Studies: Warning Dissemination and Public Alerting – US Hawaii Emergency Alert System |
| 4.4 | Emergency communications - Robustness, reliability, redundancy. Technologies for the downstream transmission of warnings to communities |
| 4.4.1 | Ref: TEWS Overview course manual |
| 4.5 | Community Evacuations: Inundation Modeling, Evacuation Maps, Response Plans, Routes and Signage, Safe Return |
| 4.5.1 | Ref: IOC Manual and Guide: Preparing for Community Tsunami Evacuations: From Inundation to Evacuation Maps, Response Plans, and Exercieses (draft, 2017) |
| 4.6 | Community preparedness and education – Schools, Businesses, Special Needs Populations, Tourism Sector; Philippines example |
| 4.7 | Marine Preparedness: Ports and Harbors |
| 4.8 | Ensuring Warning Center and Resposne Readiness - Exercises and Drills; Philippines example |
| 4.8.1 | Ref: How to Plan, Conduct, Evaluate IOC Tsunami Exercises (IOC, MG 58, 2013) |
| 5 | Preparedness, Decision Support Tools, TWC and TSP Operations - Advanced Topics Earthquakes |
| 5.1 | Using Tsunami Warning Decision Support Tools for Hazard Assessment and Response Planning, Operational Monitoring, Detection, Assessment, Warning, Cancellation: Tsunami Coastal Assessment Tool (TsuCAT), CISN, Tide Tool with Tsunami Travel Times; IOC SL Monitoring web site |
| 5.1.1 | Ref: TEWS Overview course manual |
| 5.2 | TWC Operations: Real-time Earthquake Detection and Fast Source Characterization - Sparse networks, Magnitudes, W-Phase Centroid Moment Tensors – Techniques, Use, Limitations, Challenges |
| 5.3 | TSP Operations Panel (PTWC, NWPTAC, SCSTAC) on Earthquake Detection and Fast Source Characterization - Discussion ad Question-and-Answer |
| 5.4 | TWC Operations: Travel Time and Wave Forecasting - Techniques, Use, Limitations, Challenges, Sensitivity Studies (Location, Depth, Magnitude) - RIFT case studies |
| 5.5 | TSP Operations Panel (PTWC, NWPTAC, SCSTAC) on Travel Time and Wave Forecasting - Discussion and Question-and-Answer |
| 5.6 | Learning Acitivity (individual followed by group discussion) - Tsunami Warning and Emergency Response Timeline - What happens when? |
| 6 | Tsunami Exercise |
| 6.1 | Exercise SCS-18 - Tsunami Table Top Exercise Setup and Ground Rules |
| 6.2 | Exercise SCS-18 - Decision-making using TSP Products |
| 6.3 | Final Discussion: Challenges for achieving end-to-end TWS: Data, Communication, Stakeholders, Evacuation, and other gaps. Country Readiness for Changeover - Questions, Answers, Next Steps |
| 7 | Presentation of Certificates, Closing |