Bogota, ,
Colombia
1 | Day 1: Monday, October 5, 2015 |
1.1 | Opening Ceremonies |
1.2 | Logistics and Administrative Items, Introductions |
1.3 | PTWS video: Tsunami Warning |
1.4 | Course Overview, Introductions |
2 | Part 2 |
2.1 | ICG/PTWS-XXVI and ICG/CARIBE-EWS-X Outcomes, specifically for Colombia |
2.2 | Tsunami Warning Center SOPs: What do Tsunami Warning Centers (TWCs) provide to Tsunami Emergency Response (TER) agencies? Role of Tsunami Warning Focal Point |
2.3 | Tsunami Warning Center SOPs: What do Tsunami Warning Centers (TWCs) provide to Tsunami Emergency Response (TER) agencies? Role of Tsunami Warning Focal Point |
2.4 | Colombia Tsunami Warning and Emergency Response (TWER) SOPs using PTWC Enhanced Products |
2.5 | Ecuador and Cuba TWER SOPs using PTWC Enhanced Products (15 min / country) |
3 | PTWC Enhanced Products, 16 September 2015 Chile Tsunami |
3.1 | Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) New Enhanced Products - Overview - What, Why, Criteria, Formats |
3.2 | Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) New Enhanced Products - Staging |
3.3 | PTWC Enhanced Products - Staging and Explanation of Each Product: Text, Forecast Polygon Map, Graphical Deep-Ocean Energy, Coastal Forecast, Forecast Tables, KMZ file |
3.4 | 16 September 2015, M8.3 Tsunami – PTWS and PTWC summary |
3.5 | 16 September 2015, M8.3 Tsunami SOPs – status, gaps, needs |
4 | Day 2: Tuesday, October 6, 2015 |
4.1 | Pacific and Caribbean Regional Tectonics and Seismicity, and Earthquake Hazard |
4.10 | Demonstration: Decision Support Tools of Monitoring, Detection, Assessment – Tsunami: Sea Level Monitoring (IOC web site, TideTool with Tsunami Travel Times), RIFT Tsunami Scenarios |
4.11 | TWC Operations: Travel Time Forecasting - Methods, Limitations, Uncertainty, Sensitivity Studies (Location, Depth, Magnitude) |
4.12 | TWC Operations: Wave Amplitude Forecasting – Developing real-time capabilities to address local and distant scenarios |
4.13 | TWC Operations: Wave Amplitude Forecasting – Methods, Limitations, Uncertainty, Sensitivity Studies (Location, Depth, Magnitude) |
4.2 | Science of Earthquakes for Tsunami Warning |
4.3 | PTWC Operations overview |
4.4 | TWC Operations: Real-time Earthquake Detection and Fast Source Characterization – Methods to determine Magnitude and Fault Mechanism (W-Phase CMT) |
4.5 | TWC Operations: Real-time Earthquake Detection and Fast Source Characterization – Limitations and Challenges |
4.6 | Science of Tsunamis for Tsunami Warning |
4.7 | Historical Tsunamis Affecting the Region, and Tsunami Hazard |
4.8 | TWC Operations: Sea Level Monitoring - Methods, Instruments, Limitations, Challenges |
4.9 | Demonstration: Decision Support Tools of Monitoring, Detection, Assessment – Earthquakes: Real-time Earthquake Display (CISN), USGS web site (CMT, ShakeMap, PAGER) |
5 | Day 4: Thursday, October 8, 2015 |
5.1 | TER SOPs: Overview of Stakeholder Roles and Coordination, Event Operations, Timelines, Checklists, Examples |
5.2 | TWC and TER SOPs for PTWC Enhanced Products: Guidance, Flow Charts, Criteria Tables, Timeline-driven SOP, Message Templates. Warning (EQ Magnitude and Forecast thresholds), Evacuation (Land and Marine Threats and Public Safety) |
5.3 | What do TERs do with TWC information? Limitations and Challenges in Alerting, Evacuation, and Safe-to-Return (All- Clear) |
5.4 | Activity: Improving Response – What Happens When? Reliable and Unreliable Information |
5.5 | Discussion: Colombia TWER - status, gaps, needs |
5.6 | Building Awareness & Community Preparedness - strategies and examples |
5.7 | Building Awareness & Community Preparedness - Tsunami Evacuation Maps |
5.8 | Building Awareness & Community Preparedness - Tsunami Exercises, PacWave, CaribeWave, TsunamiReady |
6 | Day 5: Friday, October 9, 2015 |
6.1 | Tsunami Hazard Scenarios around the Pacific |
6.2 | Tsunami Hazard Scenarios around the Caribbean |
6.3 | ITP-Colombia Tsunami Exercises - Decision-making using PTWC Enhanced Products - Introduction, Format, Conduct |
6.4 | Tsunami Exercise - Decision-making using PTWC Enhanced Products - Local or Regional Caribbean Scenario |
6.5 | Tsunami Exercise - Decision-making using PTWC Enhanced Products - Distant Caribbean Scenario |
6.6 | Tsunami Exercise - Decision-making using PTWC Enhanced Products - Distant Pacific Scenarios |
6.7 | Tsunami Exercise - Decision-making using PTWC Enhanced Products - Local or Regional Pacific Scenario |
6.8 | PTWC Enhanced Products - Question and Answer |
6.9 | Final Discussion: Colombia and South America Readiness and Next Steps |
7 | Certificates and Closing Ceremonies |