Regional Training Workshop: Strengthening Tsunami Warning and Emergency Response Standard Operating Procedures
ITIC TRAINING PROGRAMME (ITP) â?? INTERNATIONAL CENTRAL AMERICA
Training Course
11 - 15 February 2013
San Salvador
El Salvador
Organiser(s) & Staff
- Mr Bernardo ALIAGA ROSSEL
- Mr Nicolas ARCOS
- Tim CALLAGHAN
- Dr Laura KONG
- Ms. Julie LEONARD
- Dr. Charles MCCREERY
- Dr. Walter MOONEY
Participation
By invitation only.
This 1-week training workshop will cover essential topics involved in end-to-end tsunami warning. In event time, the topics include event monitoring and detection, threat evaluation and warning, alert dissemination, emergency response, evacuation, and public action. An effective tsunami warning system is achieved when all people in vulnerable coastal communities are prepared to respond appropriately and in a timely manner upon recognizing that a potential destructive tsunami may be approaching. Meeting this challenge requires round the-clock monitoring with real-time data streams and rapid alerting, as well as prepared communities, a strong emergency management system, and close and effective cooperation between all stakeholders. Stakeholders must be able to work in coordination and with good understanding of each otherâ??s roles, responsibilities, authorities, procedures, and action during a tsunami event. Planning and preparedness, and practicing in advance of the real event, are important to familiarize agency staff with the steps and decision-making that will need to be carried out without hesitation in a real emergency.
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- 1 - DAY 1: SESSIONS 1, 2, 3. MORNING: PLENARY
- 1.1 - Opening Ceremonies
- 1.2 - Logistics and other administrative items
- 2 - Tsunami Warning and Emergency Response – Overview
- 2.1 - End-to-End Tsunami Warning and Emergency Response – Overview
End-to-End Tsunami Warning and Emergency Response - A Race against Time - 2.2 - Lessons Learned from Past Tsunamis - Warning and Response
Lessons Learned from Past Tsunamis - 2.3 - End-to-end Tsunami Warning – Stakeholders, Roles and Responsibilities, Standard Operating Procedures, and their linkages
End To End Tsunami Warning – Stakeholders, Roles & Responsibilities, SOPs, Linkages - 2.4 - Satellite communication technologies for the transmission of warnings to governments – WMO GTS, GEONETcast, EMWIN
ITIC TRAINING PROGRAMME (ITP) – INTERNATIONAL CENTRAL AMERICA Emergency Managers Weather Information Network (EMWIN) - 3 - Country Presentations - Tsunami Standard Operating Procedures
- 3.1 - Country Presentations (Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama) - 15 min/country
SISTEMA NACIONAL DE ALERTA DE TSUNAMIS (SINAT) Y CENTRO DE ALERTA DE TSUNAMIS (CAT)
Panama Tsunami Warning and Emergency Response
Comisión Permanente de Contingencias COPECO
MONITOREO Y ALERTAMIENTO DE TSUNAMIS EN EL SALVADOR
Presentacion de los departamentos techicos de El Salvador
ALERTA DE TSUNAMI NACIONAL Y SISTEMAS DE RESPUESTA - 3.2 - Discussion: Challenges for achieving end-to-end TWS: Data, Resources, Communication, Stakeholders, Coordination
- 3.3 - Visit El Salvador MARN Tsunami Warning Center
Presentacion de los departamentos techicos de El Salvador - 4 - DAY 2: SESSION 4. Science, Tsunami Standard Operating Procedures, Warning Dissemination
- 4.1 - Earthquake and Tsunami Science - generation, propagation, impact
Earthquake and Tsunami Science - 4.10 - Breakout Groups: Information Flow SOPs - Media and Public Information, and Frequently-asked questions during a tsunami event
- 4.11 - Report Out: Information Flow SOPs - Media and Public Information
- 4.11.b - Use of Exercises in Tsunami Preparedness: International / National / Local Exercises, Types, and Post-Exercise Evaluations, Exercise Pacific Wave,
- 4.12 - Tsunami Preparedness - Education and Awareness
Tsunami Education and Awareness - 4.13 - PTWC Concept of Operation and Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for Distant, Regional, and Local Tsunamis: Monitoring, Detection and Evaluation, Instrumentation and Methodologies (seismic, sea level, forecasts (travel time, wave height, etc), Data communications, Messages, and Message Dissemination
Tsunami Warning Center Operations Challenges and Limitations – Especially for Local / Regional Tsunamis - 4.14 - PTWC New International Products - Overview - Why, What, When, How
PTWC RIFT Tsunami Forecast #20130208124436 - 4.15 - Tsunami Warning Decision Support Tools: Earthquake and Sea Level Monitoring, PTWC SMS Alerts, Historical Databases, Tsunami Travel Time Calculation
Keeping Authorities Informed: Available TW Decision Support Tools Alert, Sea Level, Earthquakes, Historical Database, Tsunami Travel Times - 4.3 - IOC Pacific Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System
Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Pacific Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System (ICG/PTWS) - 4.4 - National Tsunami Warning Centres Standard Operating Procedures - Overview on Routine and Event Operations, Flow Charts, Timelines, Checklists
Tsunami Warning Center SOPs: Overview of Routine and Event Operations, Flow Charts, Timelines, Checklists - 4.5 - Tsunami Emergency Response Standard Operating Procedures - Overview on Stakeholder Roles and Coordination, Event Operations, Timelines, Checklists
Tsunami Emergency Response SOPs- Overview on Stakeholder Roles and Coordination, Event Operations, Timelines, Checklists - 4.6 - Emergency communication considerations – robustness, reliability, redundancy
Emergency Communications considerations – robustness, reliability, redundancy - 4.7 - Warning Dissemination and Public Alerts – Responsibilities to decision-makers, media, and the public – US Emergency Alert System
Hawaii End-to-End Tsunami Warning: Emergency Alert System (EAS) - 4.8 - Warning Dissemination and Public Alerts – Responsibilities to decision-makers, media, and the public. – JMA-NHK Warning Dissemination
Tsunami and the Media: Broadcasting Alerts and Public Safety - Japan NHK - 4.9 - Emergency communication technologies for the transmission of warnings to governments and communities – WMO GTS, EMWIN, TV / FM / HF / Radio, Sirens, Mobile Phones / SMS, Internet email/web, Social Media, etc
Communication Technologies for Alert and Notification Applications - 5 - DAY 3: SESSION 5-TWC.
- 5.1 - Earthquake Seismology - Magnitudes, Centroid Moment Tensors, Finite Fault Rupture
EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE, INTENSITY,, ENERGY,, POWER LAW RELATIONS AND SOURCE MECHANISM - 5.1.b - Lessons Learned from Recent Tsunamis - Emergency Response
- 5.10 - Breakout Groups: Using Templates to Develop Timeline of Processes and Actions as SOPs (Messages, Checklists, Information Dissemination)
- 5.10.b - Creating SOPs - Breakout Group Instructions
- 5.11 - Presentation of Break out Group SOPs
- 5.11.b - Breakout Groups: Using Templates to Create General Roles and Responsibilities for SOPs
- 5.11.c - Breakout Groups: Using Templates to Create Evacuation Checklists for SOPs
- 5.11.d - Breakout Groups: Using Templates to Develop Timeline of Processes and Actions as SOPs
- 5.12 - Presentation of Breakout Group SOPs
- 5.2 - Earthquake Seismology - Slow Earthquakes, Great and Mega- Earthquakes and/or paleoseismic or probabilistic seismic hazards
- 5.2.b - 10 Steps to Successful Tsunami Emergency Response
10 Steps to Enable a Successful Tsunami Emergency Response - 5.3 - TWC Operations: Real-time seismic monitoring and earthquake source characterization - Techniques - 'Tricks of the Trade', Challenges and Limitations
Tsunami Warning Center Operations Challenges and Limitations – Especially for Local / Regional Tsunamis - 5.3.b - Community-level preparedness and response - International Perspectives, including TsunamiSmart and TsunamiReady, Special Needs Populations,Tourism Sector
- 5.4 - TWC Operations: Sea level monitoring, tsunami confirmation - Techniques - 'Tricks of the Trade, Challenges and Limitations
Pacific Tsunami Warning Center – Standard Operating Procedures
Tsunami Warning Center Operations Challenges and Limitations – Especially for Local / Regional Tsunamis - 5.4.b - Public Coastal Evacuations: Alerting and Moving People, Inundation maps, Evacuation Routes and Signage, Safe Return
Public Coastal Evacuation: defining evacuation maps and routes, shelters and needs ex-ante with community based approach - 5.5 - TWC Operations: Wave forecasting - Techniques - 'Tricks of the Trade, Challenges and Limitations
Tsunami Warning Center Operations Challenges and Limitations – Especially for Local / Regional Tsunamis - 5.5.b - Tsunami Mitigation - Hard & Soft Countermeasures, Vertical Evacuation
Hard and Soft Countermeasures ffor Vertiicall Evacuatiion - 5.6 - TWC Operations: Discussion and Questions
- 5.6.b - Understanding and acting on TWC Messages, DMO Actions and Use of Timelines in Emergency Response
Understanding and acting on TWC Messages, DMO Actions and Use of Timelines in Emergency Response - 5.7 - PTWC New Products: TWC Understanding - Use and Limitations
- 5.7.b - New PTWC Products: TER understanding and interpretation - Use and Limitation
New PTWC Products: Tsunami Emergency Response Understanding and Interpretation - 5.8 - SOP Guidance - How to Guidance, including Analysis Processes, Flow Charts and Checklists. Fundamental TWC SOPs for a Timely Tsunami Warning: TWC Operations - Tsunami Event Activity Timelines: Cases 1-4 – Centres with / without real-time seismic processing
- 5.8.b - Tsunami Emergency Response – Distant and Local Tsunami Threat – Wakayama, Japan Case Study
- 5.9 - Creating SOPs - Breakout Group Instructions
- 5.9.b - Creating SOPs - How to Guidance, Explanation of Templates, Distant and Local Threats including Response Processes, Flow Charts and Checklists in SOPs
- 6.1 - Table Top Exercise – Background and Scenarios for Day 5
Day 5: ECAM-13 Exerciise Centrall Ameriica Mexiico ’’13 Generall IInstructiion
Day 5: ECAM-13 Exercise Central America Mexiico ‘‘13 Final Instructions - 6.2 - Table Top Exercise Set-up according to Stakeholder Warning and Response Groups
- 6.3 - Tsunami Table Top Exercise
- 6.4 - Post-Exercise Evaluation Preparation
- 6.5 - Post-Exercise Evaluation – Comments, Problems, Improvements
- 6.6 - Toward Building National and Regional Capabilities - Summary Discussion and Next Steps
- 7 - Presentation of Certificates, Closing Ceremony
End-to-End Tsunami Warning A Race against Time - Closing Thoughts
There are 23 participants associated with Regional Training Workshop: Strengthening Tsunami Warning and Emergency Response Standard Operating Procedures .
Name | Country |
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ACOSTA GALEANO Norwin Ernesto | Nicaragua |
CACERES Gerby | Honduras |
DEISY LOPEZ Ana | El Salvador |
DIAZ Manuel | El Salvador |
GATICA Mario Rosales | Guatemala |
GAVIDIA MEDINA Francisco | El Salvador |
GONZALEZ Ricardo | El Salvador |
GUERRERO Xinia | Costa Rica |
GUTIERREZ Alejandro | Costa Rica |
LARREYNAGA MURCIA Jeniffer Alejandra | El Salvador |
LUQUE Nestor | Panama |
MARROQUIN Griselda | El Salvador |
MARTINEZ Guadalupe | El Salvador |
MONTALVO Héctor | Guatemala |
MUÑOZ Angelica | Nicaragua |
MURILLO Raúl | El Salvador |
REYES Mario | El Salvador |
REYES AGUILAR Juan José Martin | Honduras |
ROA MENDOZA Roberto | Mexico |
TALAVERA Emilio | Nicaragua |
VALDEZ DELL Francisco Izaac | Guatemala |
VALENCIA ROSALES Fidel Antonio | El Salvador |
VEGA Jose | Costa Rica |
Participant Stats:
Total Invited: 23
Confirmed: 23
Not confirmed: 0
Unapproved: 0
Not-participating: 0
Rejected: 0
Label(s): no labels
Created at 17:47 on 02 Feb 2013 by OceanExpert Manager
Last Updated at 18:41 on 09 Jun 2017 by Bernardo Aliaga Rossel