Valparaiso
Chile
| 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 | End-to-end Tsunami Warning – Stakeholders, Roles and Responsibilities, Standard Operating Procedures, and their linkages |
| 2.3 | Lessons Learned from Past Tsunamis - Warning and Emergency Response |
| 3 | Country Presentations - Tsunami Standard Operating Procedures |
| 3.1 | Protocolo Regional de Comunicaciones entre los centros de Alerta de Tsunamis del Pacífico Sudeste (by Skype) |
| 3.2 | Country Presentations (Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile) - 20 min/country |
| 3.3 | Discussion: Challenges for achieving end-to-end TWS: Data, Resources, Communication, Stakeholders, Coordination |
| 3.4 | Visit Chile SHOA Tsunami Warning Center |
| 4 | Science, Tsunami Standard Operating Procedures, Warning Dissemination |
| 4.1 | Earthquake and Tsunami Science - generation, propagation, impact; Pacific and South America Tsunami Hazards |
| 4.2 | IOC Pacific Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System |
| 4.3 | National Tsunami Warning Centres Standard Operating Procedures - Overview on Routine and Event Operations, Flow Charts, Timelines, Checklists |
| 4.4 | Tsunami Emergency Response Standard Operating Procedures - Overview on Stakeholder Roles and Coordination, Event Operations, Timelines, Checklists |
| 4.5 | Emergency communication considerations – robustness, reliability, redundancy |
| 4.6 | Case Study: Warning Dissemination and Public Alerting – Authoritative agencies, media, and the public – JMA-NHK Warning Dissemination |
| 4.7 | Case Study: Warning Dissemination and Public Alerting – Authoritative agencies, media, and the public – Hawaii Emergency Alert System |
| 4.8 | Emergency communication technologies for the downstream transmission of warnings to local governments and communities – TV / FM / HF / Radio, Sirens, Mobile Phones / SMS, Internet email/web, Social Media, etc |
| 4.9 | Breakout Groups: Information Flow SOPs - Media and Public Information, and Frequently-asked questions during a tsunami event |
| 4.10 | Report Out: Information Flow SOPs - Media and Public Information |
| 4.11 | Use of Exercises in Tsunami Preparedness: International / National / Local Exercises, Types, and Post-Exercise Evaluations, IOC Tsunami Wave Guideline, International (PacWave13), National and Local Exercise |
| 4.12 | Tsunami Preparedness - International Perspectives on Education and Awareness |
| 4.13 | Tsunami Preparedness - Regional Perspectives on Education and Awareness, Educación y Reducción de Riesgo de por Tsunamis en el Marco de la Educación para el Desarrollo Sostenible |
| 4.14 | Evacuation Planning: Role and Value of Tsunami Inundation Modelling |
| 4.15 | Vertical Evacuation and Refuge: Progress in Designing Tsunami-Resistant Structures |
| 4.16 | Tsunami Warning Decision Support Tools: Earthquake and Sea Level Monitoring, PTWC SMS Alerts, Historical Databases, Tsunami Travel Time Calculation |
| 4.17 | 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 |
| 4.18 | PTWC New International Products - Overview - Why, What, When, How |
| 5 | DAY 3: SESSION 5-TWC |
| 5.1 | Earthquake Seismology (Special Topics) - Magnitudes, Centroid Moment Tensors, Finite Fault Rupture, Slow Earthquakes, Great and Gigantic Earthquakes |
| 5.2 | TWC Operations: Real-time seismic monitoring and earthquake source characterization - Techniques – 'Tricks of the Trade', Challenges and Limitations |
| 5.3 | TWC Operations: Sea level monitoring, tsunami confirmation - Techniques – 'Tricks of the Trade, Challenges and Limitations |
| 5.4 | TWC Operations: Wave forecasting - Techniques - 'Tricks of the Trade, Challenges and Limitations |
| 5.5 | PTWC New Products: TWC Understanding – Use and Limitations |
| 5.6 | SOP Guidance - How to Guidance, including Analysis Processes, Flow Charts and Checklists. Timeline-driven SOPs, Discussion, Questions |
| 5.7 | Creating SOPs - Breakout Group Instructions |
| 5.8 | Breakout Groups: Using Templates to Develop Timeline of Processes and Actions as SOPs (Messages, Checklists, Information Dissemination) |
| 5.b | DAY 3: SESSION 5-TER |
| 5.b.1 | Public Coastal Evacuations: Alerting and Moving People, Inundation maps, Evacuation Routes and Signage, Safe return |
| 5.b.2 | Small Group Exercise - Evacuation Mapping |
| 5.b.3 | New PTWC Products: Understanding and Acting on TWC Messages - Use and Limitations |
| 5.b.4 | Tsunami Emergency Response – Local Tsunami Threat – Wakayama, Japan Case Study |
| 5.b.5 | Community-level Response - International Perspectives, including TsunamiReady, Special Needs Populations,Tourism Sector |
| 5.b.6 | Creating SOPs - How to Guidance, Explanation of Templates, Local Threats including Response Processes, Flow Charts and Checklists in SOPs, Discussion, Questions |
| 5.b.7 | Creating SOPs - Breakout Group Instructions |
| 5.b.8 | Breakout Groups: Using Templates to Create SOPs: General Roles and Responsibilities, Evacuation Checklists, Timeline of Processes and Actions |
| 6.1 | Table Top Exercise – Background and Scenarios for Day 5 |
| 6.2 | Exercise Set-up according to Stakeholder Warning and Response Groups |
| 6.3 | PTWS New Products Tsunami Table Top Exercise |
| 6.4 | Post-Exercise Evaluation - Report 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 |