TOWS Task Teams on Disaster Management and Preparedness & Tsunami Watch Operations

04 - 06 March 2026, no location specified or online event

Annotated Agenda

1 Joint Task Team Meeting
1.1 Session Organisation
1.2 Review of Joint Actions
1.3 ICG Reporting on Wave Exercises
1.4 Significant Events in each ICG
1.5 Review of the IOC Post-Event Assessment Process & Questionnaire
1.6 Visual Based Approach for TEW Chain
1.7 Update on First ODTP Conference, ITS & IUGG
1.8 Update on EW4All
1.9 Any Other Business (TWS Competency Training)
1.10 Summary of Actions & Recommendations & Close of the Joint Meeting
2 Task Team on Disaster Management and Preparedness
2.1 Session Organisation
2.2 Tsunami Ready
2.2.1 Highlight - Status of Tsunami Ready Implementation
2.2.2 Update of Tsunami Ready Tool Kit Integration in M&G 74 and Communication to Member States
2.2.3 Automation of TRR Applications
2.2.4 Assessment Tool on the Impact of Tsunami Ready Recognition to Community
2.2.5 Preparation of a Summary Report on the Implementation, Challenges and Opportunities of Impementing TRR
2.2.6 Organizing a Tsunami Ready Summit
2.2.7 Update on Tsunami Ready Coalition Implementation Plan
2.2.8 Update on establishing the Tsunami Ready Equivalency for the PTWS
2.2.9 Tsunami Ready Applications for Specific and Complex National Situations (National Scale and Unique Disaster Risk Governance)
2.3 TEWS Supporting Tools
2.3.1 Assessment tool for downstream warning process
2.4 Inclusion and Critical Infrastructures
2.4.1 Inclusive SOP
2.4.2 Tsunami Prearedness and Critical Infrastructures
2.5 Round Table Discussion - Policy and Future Implementation: Tsunami Ready
2.6 WTAD and Planning for 2026
2.7 Regional Roadmap on Tsunami EW for Educating
2.8 Develop TT TMP Work Plan
2.9 Key Decisions and Recommendations
2.10 AOB & Close of Meeting
3 Task Team on Tsunami Watch Operations
3.1 Session Organisation
3.2 Review of Important Actions
3.3 Tsunami Watch Operations
3.3.1 Status and Plans of Tsunami Watch Operations in the ICGs
3.3.2 Updates to the Area of Coverage and ESZ Maps
3.3.3 Updates on Products for Maritime Community
3.4 Tsunamis Generated by non-Seismic Sources
3.4.1 ICG SOPs for Tsunamis Generated by Volcanos
3.4.2 World Organisation of Volcano Observatories
3.4.3 Other Sources (Landslides, Meteotsunamis)
3.5 Support to ODTP High Level Objective 1
3.5.1 Optimal Monitoring Networks
3.5.2 SMART Cables
3.5.3 Hydroacoustic & AI for Tsunami Warnings
3.6 CAP Implementation
3.7 Updates to Global Service Definition Document
3.8 Deceisions / Recommendations / Work Plan
3.9 AOB & Closing of the TTTWO Meeting