ITP-Solomon Islands: Tsunami Warning and Emergency Response Using the PTWC Enhanced Products for National Tsunami Threat Decision-Making
ITP-Solomon Islands
Training Course
22 - 25 September 2015
Honiara
Solomon Islands
Organizer & Staff
Participation
By invitation only.
The training workshop will cover tsunami warning operations and the use of the PTWC Enhanced Products for tsunami threat decision-making, with specific attention on the warning and emergency response plan and standard operating procedures (SOPs) of the Solomon Islands. Topics will include warning and response SOPs and challenges, warning decision support tools, warning messages and alerting, evacuation concepts and planning, and awareness strategies. Over the last 10+ years, with improvements in data quality, quantity, and real-time availability, PTWC’s response time has dropped significantly from an hour to 5-10 minutes for tsunami events. At the same time, with each great earthquake and tsunami since 26 December 2004 helping to increase scientific understanding, better techniques have been developed to quickly characterize the earthquake and numerically model the tsunami. In 2014, the PTWC implemented Enhanced Products for the PTWS that now include wave amplitude forecasts in both text and graphical formats, and that require each country to explicitly assign Warning / Watch status in their own messages to their coasts. In July 2015, the First Pacific Ministerial Meeting on Meteorology adopted the Nuku'alofa Declaration, calling for support to ensure that National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHS) have the necessary capacity to support sustainable development, and specifically for the need to strengthen their tsunami early warning systems. Accordingly, the goal of this training is to increase the capacity of first responder operational staff to efficiently and effectively respond to tsunamis.
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Name | Country |
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ALENGE Hotoravu | Solomon Islands |
BOPULO Bartholomew | Solomon Islands |
LILO Walter | Solomon Islands |
SAEMANE Geolynx | Solomon Islands |
YOUNG Peter | Solomon Islands |
ANAIA Nelson | Solomon Islands |
ARUKWAI Silas | Solomon Islands |
BAKALE Francis | Solomon Islands |
BARAGAMU George | Solomon Islands |
BUNABO Henry | Solomon Islands |
FERAH Freddy | Solomon Islands |
FITO'O Frank | Solomon Islands |
GANGURA Joe Pita | Solomon Islands |
GULIOA George | Solomon Islands |
HAGARIA Jerry | Solomon Islands |
HAUKARE Robert | Solomon Islands |
HIRIASIA David | Solomon Islands |
HIROMANA Oliver | Solomon Islands |
IROI Chanel | Solomon Islands |
KADAMANA Charles | Solomon Islands |
KELLY Bobby | Solomon Islands |
KO'OFULI Rolland | Solomon Islands |
KUALI-IAUTU Florence | Vanuatu |
MALVI Henry Smith | Solomon Islands |
MANEKERA Collin | Solomon Islands |
MCQUEEN Bahenua | Solomon Islands |
MEKE Job | Solomon Islands |
NASIU Steve | Solomon Islands |
PAIKAI George | Solomon Islands |
PITU Hamptan | Solomon Islands |
PORAHOA Kevin | Solomon Islands |
RICHARDSON Jennifer | Solomon Islands |
RILIFIA Alexander | Solomon Islands |
SAEGA Wilson | Solomon Islands |
SAENI Brian Wilson | Solomon Islands |
SIMI Pearson | Solomon Islands |
SOLOMON Sammy | Solomon Islands |
SURI Selwyn | Solomon Islands |
TAFIARIKI Jonathan | Solomon Islands |
TAHANI Lloyd | Solomon Islands |
TEGO George | Solomon Islands |
TIMAUKU Ruth | Solomon Islands |
TIVA James | Solomon Islands |
WALE'ELE Allan | Solomon Islands |
WAOKAHI Belinda | Solomon Islands |
YATES Loti | Solomon Islands |
ZAKU Gareth | Solomon Islands |
= Person has not yet confirmed their participation.
Participant Stats:
Total Invited: 47
Confirmed: 44
Not confirmed: 3
Unapproved: 0
Not-participating: 0
Rejected: 0
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Created at 00:03 on 02 Oct 2015 by Bernardo Aliaga Rossel
Last Updated at 09:18 on 02 Aug 2024 by Sofie de Baenst