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NTHMP Annual Meeting Feb 1, 2011 WCS Agenda Topics PacWave International Exercises ITIC / PTWC Training. INTERNATIONAL EXERCISES - PACIFIC. PacWave 2006 (Philippines, Chile source) – 44 countries PacWave 2008 (NW Pacific source) – 40 countries PacWave 2011 – Nov 2011
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NTHMP Annual Meeting Feb 1, 2011WCS Agenda TopicsPacWave International ExercisesITIC / PTWC Training
INTERNATIONAL EXERCISES - PACIFIC • PacWave 2006 (Philippines, Chile source) – 44 countries • PacWave 2008 (NW Pacific source) – 40 countries • PacWave 2011 – Nov 2011 • PTWS Exercise Task Team – meet Wellington, 4 Mar 2011Chair: ITIC, NZ Civil Defense; Members: PTWC, JMA, countries • Review the PacWave08 Summary Report to identify lessons learned Design and carry out PacWave11 • Intl Communications exercise to test decision-making protocols and procedures; ‘downstream’ national to local exercising, including evacuation decided by country • Multi-source to allow everyone to play, e.g., SW Pacific, South / Central Amer, Cascadia/Alaska, NW Pacific, South China Sea • Provide better exercise conduct guidance to encourage standard methodology, including planning, debrief, and baselining (develop from best practices of NZ, USA, Indonesia, others) • Announce to Member States 180 days in advance (May 2011) • Exercise Manual at least 90 days in advance (Sep 2011)
TRAINING – ITIC, PTWC, and partners “Five minutes before the party is not the time to learn to dance.” Snoopy, circa 1982 Fleeing the tsunami, Hilo, 1946
MULTI-STATE/COUNTRY • LANTEX10 briefings (NTHMP 2010) – ITIC, WC/ATWC • PacWave11 (NTHMP 2011 proposed) – ITIC, WC/ATWC, PTWC • USDHS/FEMA National Disaster Preparedness Training Center 1 certified (Tsunami Awareness); next courses TBD • ITIC Training Program (ITP-Hawaii) – Annual (IOC/USAID/ US WMO/etc funding, NTHMP 2011 self-funded) STATE / COUNTRY / REGION SPECIFIC • American Samoa, Guam, CNMI Capacity Building (NTHMP 2010; 2011-2012 proposed) – ITIC, PTWC • ITIC Training Program (ITP-International) – 60 multi-day since 2006 • Outreach – ITIC, PTWC: Samoa, Tonga (2009-2010), Fiji (2010), Proposed: Tonga, Fiji, Vanuatu, Chile/South America • Indonesia / IO countries (UNDP funding, 2nd SOP Regional Training) • Seismology and Tsunami Warning (funding TBD) – ITIC, USGS/IRIS, PTWC (SW Pacific countries, Tuvalu) • Central America Train-the-Trainer – build cadre of regionally-based trainers to meet the demand (proposed USAID, IOC) ISSUES – Dependent on funding year-to-year
ITIC Training Program (ITP-Hawaii)Pacific and Caribbean focus • FY10 International Funding and NTHMP funding • ITIC Training Program (ITP-Hawaii) - Annual • Hawaii as a working example of end-to-end tsunami warning system (hazard assessment, warning and response, preparedness) • PTWC, State/County Civil Defenses, U of Hawaii (GLOSS Sea Level Center, inundation mapping, tsunami-resistant engineering), Pacific Tsunami Museum • ITP-Hawaii 2010 (30 Aug – 10 Sep 2010) • 16 participants: 9 countries / 1 regional org (3 from US territories/commonwealth) from national TWC and EMA/Disaster Mgmt Org • Tsunami SOPs for warning and emergency response • Enhance stakeholder coordination internationally, nationally and locally for tsunami response and for exercise implementation. • Issues • Pending year to year – domestic (NTHMP or other) and international (US WMO VCP – ITP proposal)