San Salvador
El Salvador
| 1 | DAY 1: SESSIONS 1, 2, 3. MORNING: PLENARY |
| 1.1 | Opening Ceremonies |
| 1.2 | Logistics and other administrative items |
| 1.3 | Course Overview |
| 2 | Tsunami Warning and Emergency Response – Overview |
| 2.1 | End-to-End Tsunami Warning and Emergency Response – Overview |
| 2.2 | Lessons Learned from Past Tsunamis - Warning and Response |
| 2.3 | End-to-end Tsunami Warning – Stakeholders, Roles and Responsibilities, Standard Operating Procedures, and their linkages |
| 2.4 | Satellite communication technologies for the transmission of warnings to governments – WMO GTS, GEONETcast, EMWIN |
| 3 | Country Presentations - Tsunami Standard Operating Procedures |
| 3.1 | Country Presentations (Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama) - 15 min/country |
| 3.2 | Discussion: Challenges for achieving end-to-end TWS: Data, Resources, Communication, Stakeholders, Coordination |
| 3.3 | Visit El Salvador MARN Tsunami Warning Center |
| 4 | DAY 2: SESSION 4. Science, Tsunami Standard Operating Procedures, Warning Dissemination |
| 4.1 | Earthquake and Tsunami Science - generation, propagation, impact |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 4.14 | PTWC New International Products - Overview - Why, What, When, How |
| 4.15 | Tsunami Warning Decision Support Tools: Earthquake and Sea Level Monitoring, PTWC SMS Alerts, Historical Databases, Tsunami Travel Time Calculation |
| 4.2 | Pacific and Central America Tsunami Hazards |
| 4.3 | IOC Pacific Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System |
| 4.4 | National Tsunami Warning Centres Standard Operating Procedures - Overview on 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 |
| 4.6 | Emergency communication considerations – robustness, reliability, redundancy |
| 4.7 | Warning Dissemination and Public Alerts – Responsibilities to decision-makers, media, and the public – US Emergency Alert System |
| 4.8 | Warning Dissemination and Public Alerts – Responsibilities to decision-makers, media, and the public. – JMA-NHK Warning Dissemination |
| 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 |
| 5 | DAY 3: SESSION 5-TWC. |
| 5.1 | Earthquake Seismology - Magnitudes, Centroid Moment Tensors, Finite Fault Rupture |
| 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 |
| 5.3 | TWC Operations: Real-time seismic monitoring and earthquake source characterization - Techniques - 'Tricks of the Trade', Challenges and Limitations |
| 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 |
| 5.4.b | Public Coastal Evacuations: Alerting and Moving People, Inundation maps, Evacuation Routes and Signage, Safe Return |
| 5.5 | TWC Operations: Wave forecasting - Techniques - 'Tricks of the Trade, Challenges and Limitations |
| 5.5.b | Tsunami Mitigation - Hard & Soft Countermeasures, Vertical Evacuation |
| 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 |
| 5.7 | PTWC New Products: TWC Understanding - Use and Limitations |
| 5.7.b | New PTWC Products: TER understanding and interpretation - Use and Limitation |
| 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 |
| 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 |