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14 March 2006
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INTERGOVERNMENTAL OCEANOGRAPHIC COMMISSION
(of
UNESCO)
for
the Pacific Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System (ICG/PTWS-XXI)
Melbourne, Australia, 3-5
May 2006
PROVISIONAL AGENDA
1. OPENING
2. ORGANIZATION OF THE SESSION
3. PROGRESS IN THE PROGRAMME
IMPLEMENTATION
3.1 CHAIRMAN’S REPORT
3.2 NATIONAL REPORTS
3.3 ITIC DIRECTOR’S REPORT
3.4 PTWC DIRECTOR’S REPORT
3.5 JMA DIRECTOR’S REPORT
3.6 IOC TSUNAMI UNIT REPORT
3.7 RECRUITMENT OF NEW MEMBERS TO THE PTWS
3.8 ‘EXERCISE PACIFIC WAVE 06’ TASK TEAM
REPORT
3.9 WORKING GROUP 1 REPORT: SEISMIC MEASUREMENTS DATA COLLECTION AND
EXCHANGE
CTBTO REPORT ON USE OF NETWORK BY PTWC AND JMA
FDSN/IRIS REPORT - GLOBAL SEISMIC NETWORK
3.10 WORKING GROUP 2 REPORT: SEA-LEVEL MEASUREMENTS, DATA COLLECTION AND
EXCHANGE
GLOSS REPORT
DART SEA LEVEL NETWORK REPORT
XML SEA LEVEL STATION WEB SERVICES REPORT
3.11 WORKING GROUP 3 REPORT: TSUNAMI HAZARD IDENTIFICATION AND
CHARACTERIZATION
INTEGRATED TSUNAMI DATABASE PROJECT (ITDB) REPORT
3.12 WORKING GROUP 4 REPORT: RESILIENCE BUILDING AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
3.13 WORKING GROUP 5 REPORT: INTEROPERABILITY AND REGIONAL, SUB-REGIONAL
AND NATIONAL TSUNAMI WARNING AND MITIGATION SYSTEMS IN THE PACIFIC
3.14 OTHER
4. SUB-REGIONAL PACIFIC TSUNAMI WARNING AND
MITIGATION SYSTEMS
4.1 NORTHWEST PACIFIC AND SOUTH CHINA SEA
4.2 WORKING GROUP ON THE CENTRAL AMERICA
PACIFIC COAST TSUNAMI WARNING SYSTEM
4.3 SOUTHWEST PACIFIC
5. PTWS
STRATEGIC PLAN
5.1 PTWS AND IOC’S REORGANIZATION AS FROM
2006
5.2 PTWS COMMUNICATIONS PLAN
5.3 WORKING GROUP REPORT ON THE MEDIUM TERM
STRATEGY FOR THE PTWS
6. PTWS CAPACITY BUILDING
6.1 ITSU TRAINING PROGRAMME
6.2 NATIONAL ASSESSMENTS
6.3 OTHER
7. PTWS INFORMATION SERVICES, EDUCATION, AND
AWARENESS TOOLS
7.1 TSUNAMI NEWSLETTER AND TSUNAMI BULLETIN
BOARD
7.2 TSUNAMITEACHER
7.3 PUBLICATIONS
7.4 OTHER
8. OTHER REGIONAL TSUNAMI WARNING AND MITIGATION SYSTEMS
8.1 INTERGOVERNMENTAL COORDINATION GROUP FOR
THE INDIAN OCEAN TSUNAMI WARNING AND MITIGATION SYSTEM
8.2 INTERGOVERNMENTAL COORDINATION GROUP FOR
TSUNAMI AND OTHER COASTAL HAZARDS WARNING SYSTEM FOR THE CARIBBEAN AND ADJACENT
REGIONS
8.3 INTERGOVERNMENTAL COORDINATION GROUP FOR
THE TSUNAMI EARLY WARNING AND MITIGATION SYSTEM IN THE NORTH-EASTERN ATLANTIC,
THE MEDITERRANEAN AND CONNECTED SEAS
8.4 FRAMEWORK FOR THE GLOBAL TSUNAMI AND
OTHER OCEAN-RELATED HAZARDS EARLY WARNING SYSTEM
8.5 CO-OPERATION WITH OTHER ICGS AND ICG
WORKING GROUPS
9. EXISTING PARTNERSHIPS AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR NEW ONES
9.1 CO-OPERATION WITH THE IUGG TSUNAMI
COMMISSION
9.2 CO-OPERATION WITH WORLD DATA CENTRE-A,
SOLID EARTH GEOPHYSICS - TSUNAMIS
9.3 COOPERATION WITH SOPAC
9.4 CO-OPERATION WITH WMO
9.5 CO-OPERATION WITH JCOMM
9.6 CO-OPERATION WITH ISDR
9.7 OTHER
10. PROPOSALS FOR FUTURE PROJECTS
11. REPORT OF SWGs
12. OTHER BUSINESS
13. PROGRAMME AND BUDGET FOR 2006-2007
14. DATES AND PLACE FOR ICG/PTWS-XXII
15. ELECTION OF 2ND VICE-CHAIR
16. ADOPTION OF THE SUMMARY REPORT AND
RECOMMENDATIONS
17. CLOSURE
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INTERGOVERNMENTAL
OCEANOGRAPHIC COMMISSION
(of UNESCO)
Twenty-First Session of the
Intergovernmental Co-ordination Group
for the Pacific Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System
(ICG/PTWS)
3
– 5 May 2006
REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR OF
THE PACIFIC TSUNAMI WARNING
CENTER
The Pacific
Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) Director gave his report on activities and
changes at PTWC over the intersessional period.
He informed that between October 2005 and April 2006 PTWC issued 12
Tsunami Information Bulletins in response to large earthquakes in the Pacific
and 9 Tsunami Information Bulletins in response to earthquakes in Hawaii. For two of the Pacific events, an Mw=7.1 on
14 November 2005 off the coast of Honshu, Japan, and an Mw=6.8 on 14 March 2005
near Seram, Indonesia, small tsunamis were generated.
The Director
pointed out that in response to the December 26, 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami
tragedy, and a corresponding increased awareness of potential USA
vulnerabilities to this hazard, the PTWC staff has been increased from a total
of 8 persons in 2004 to 15 persons as of May 2006. The extra staff have facilitated 7x24
operations, with one person in the Center and one nearby in a standby status,
that began as of April 26, 2006. These
additional staff should also facilitate improved services by the Center in all
respects.
Other improvements
have taken or are taking place at PTWC in response to the Indian Ocean
event. Seismic, hydroacoustic, and
infrasound stations of the International Monitoring System of the Comprehensive
Test Ban Treaty Organization have been offered to both PTWC and JMA for
humanitarian purposes and both PTWC and JMA have begun to receive some of these
data. Coastal sea level stations across
the Pacific belonging to many countries and organizations are being upgraded by
those bodies to better serve the tsunami warning system. The USA is now operating 10 Deep Ocean
Assessment and Reporting of Tsunamis (DART) instruments in the Pacific with
plans to install a total of 32 in the next two years. Chile is operating one DART with plans for
another. In addition, the seismic
network operated by PTWC in Hawaii for local tsunami warning purposes is
undergoing a major upgrade.
The PTWC Director
then proposed some specific format and language changes to PTWC bulletins to make
these products more compatible and coordinated with USA National Weather Service
products. The proposed changes would
eliminate the word “Bulletin” from tsunami products and use the word
“Statement” for informational products and “Message” for warning products. The headline line would also be moved more
near the top of each product. After some
discussion and concerns expressed by the Group to these changes, the Group
decided to form an intersessional Task Team to review the proposed changes,
consider additional changes, and solicit input from all Member States on the
potential impact of proposed changes.
This Task Team will be Co-Chaired by the PTWS and IOTWS Interoperability Working Group Chairs, and
include Japan, USA, Chile, France, Australia, and the Russian Federation.
Lastly, the
Director notified the Group that PTWC may move from its current location in Ewa
Beach, Hawaii to a new NOAA Facility being planned for Ford Island in Pearl
Harbor, Hawaii. The target date is 2010.
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INTERGOVERNMENTAL
OCEANOGRAPHIC COMMISSION
(of UNESCO)
Twentieth-First Session of the
Intergovernmental Co-ordination Group
for the Pacific Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System
(ICG/PTWS)
3
– 5 May 2006
REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR OF
THE INTERNATIONAL TSUNAMI
INFORMATION CENTRE
ON INTERSESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
1. INTRODUCTION
During the Intersessional Period, the ITIC continued to strongly support the efforts of the IOC Tsunami
Programme as the lead Centre for sharing experience and know-how, based on the Pacific, with regions
starting to implement tsunami warning and mitigation systems in the world’s oceans and marginal seas.
In 2006, the ITIC Director will be seconded to the IOC
by the USA NOAA to lead the IOC ITIC, and the ITIC will be formally established
as a Programme Office of the IOC through MOU with the USA. These activities are intended to clearly
establish the United Nations attributes of the IOC, and thus allow it to
receive full contributions to staffing, visiting internships, and other funding
resources to build ITIC as the IOC’s tsunami information resources and focal
point for capacity building in support of tsunami mitgation. Chile continues to support the ITIC Associate
Director position, and especially for the focus of tsunami mitigation in
Spanish-speaking countries.
2. MEETINGS ATTENDED BY THE ITIC DIRECTOR DURING THE INTERSESSIONAL PERIOD, OCTOBER 2005 to APRIL 2006
o
The
International Training Workshop on Numerical Modeling of Tsunami for Developing
Countries in Southeast Asia, the Pacific, and the Indian Ocean, 8-19 November
2005, Philippines.
o
Indian Ocean Intersessional
Working Group on Seismic
measurements, data collection, and exchange, 10-11 November 2005, Jakarta,
Indonesia.
o
First Session of the Intergovernmental Coordination
Group - NEAMTWS, 21-22 November 2005, Rome, Italy
o
Second Session of the Intergovernmental Coordination
Group – IOTWS, 14-16 December 2005, Hyderabad, India
o
First Session of the Intergovernmental Coordination
Group – CARIBE-EWS, 10-12 January 2006, Barbados
o
Second Coordination Meeting for the USAID Contribution
to the Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning System, 29-30 January 2006
o Exploratory
Workshop on Sensor based Infrastructure for Early Tsunami Dectection, Maui,
Hawaii, 9-10 February 2006, sponsored by University of Pittsburgh
o
Rethinking Capacity Development for Disaster Risk
Reduction: Action 2005-2015, Global
Future Search Meeting, 13-15 February 2006, Chavannes-de-Bogis, Switzerland,
sponsored by the UN Development Training Programme
o
Gulf Seismic
Forum 2006, Earthquake Studies in the Arabian Plate Region, 19-22 February 2006
Sultan Qaboos University, Sultanate of Oman
o
IRIS Global
Seismic Network Standing Committee Meeting, 8-9 March 2006, Washington, DC
o
PTWC-JMA-ITIC Coordination Meeting in support of the
NWPTAC expansion into the South China
Seas Region, 14 March 2006, Ewa Beach, Hawaii
o
Pacific Ocean Intersessional
Working Group on Seismic measurements,
data collection, and exchange, 15-16 March 2006, Honolulu, Hawaii.
o
UNESCAP
Thailand Trust Fund Briefing Seminar and Advisory Council Meeting, 28 March
2006, Bangkok, Thailand
o
IOC-USGS
Seismology Training, 3-7 April 2006, Colombo, Sri Lanka
o
Malaysia-IOC International
Round-Table Dialogue on Earthquake and Tsunami Risks in Southeast Asia and the
South China Sea Region, 27-28 April 2006, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
PROGRESS
IN PTWS-XX DECISION IMPLEMENTATION
The ITIC Director continued to work during the
intersession on action items from PTWS-XX, as summarized below.
3. GLOBAL INTEGRATED HISTORICAL DATABASE
The ITIC continues to facilitate the interactions
between the Novosibirsk Tsunami Laboratory (NTL) and the World Data Center -
SEG / National Geophysical Data Center with the goal of merging the two
existing databases into one high-quality database with a high degree of quality
control on the validity of the included data.
Further progress during the intersessional period has been made. The NTL has concentrated on deploying an
offline, PC-standalone application with user-friendly graphical controls and
included the option for tsunami travel time calculations and display of time
contours, and the NGDC has concentrated on a online, web-based, GIS-based
application complemented by an extensive forms-based search capability.
The ITIC Director strongly believes the following:
· that only one database should exist, and as
agreed previously by the parties, that the database be housed at the WDC-SEG;
· that distributed versions of the data
include only those data that are deemed highly accurate, or that the data that
is included be assigned a validity according to an agreed-upon standardized
validity criteria;
· that both the online, web-based, and the
offline applications use the SAME, IDENTICAL databases to avoid confusion and
thus possibly misinterpretation.
4. PTWS COMMUNICATIONS PLAN
The PTWS
Communications Plan was updated, with inclusion of the Northwest Pacific
Tsunami Advisory Handbook that expands coverage into the South China Sea, and
widely disseminated starting in April 2006.
The current version, which excludes 7x24 Tsunami Warning Focal Point
information, can be found at http://ioc3.unesco.org/ptws/PTWS-XXI_working_documents.htm
Operational copies
are available to authorized agencies directly from the ITIC.
5. OBSERVATION SYSTEMS
5.1
SEA LEVEL OBSERVATIONS
The
ITIC continues to work as a facilitator of activities supporting sea level
monitoring for tsunami warning between the PTWC, JMA, GLOSS and the University
of Hawaii Sea Level Center. Recent
additions to this partnership network include the Pacific Disaster Center and
the IOC IODE Project Office.
In the Indian Ocean, the ITIC and PTWC are
working together with the WMO and IOC GLOSS to make sea level data transmitted
over the WMO GTS available to National Meteorological and Hydrological Services
(NMHS), and to permit them to decode, display, and manipulate (measure wave
height, period) these time series. The PTWC has developed a platform-independent solution which will take
a daily log file of data incoming chronologically over the GTS, decode the data
file, and plot the time series on an operational computer. The Tool has been ported to Indonesia, Malaysia,
Singapore, Maldives, and India
The ITIC welcomes
the Indian Ocean effort and hpes that the tool will be enhanced and implemented
in the Pacific and globally.
Two back-to-back
meetings were held at the IOC IODE Project Office in Belgium to measure
progress and the way forward in the development of XML schema for sea level
station metadata to support tsunami warning upgrades and monitoring, and the
development of capabilities for the ODINAFRICA Sea level Facility in Nairobi,
Kenya. Two Summary Reports accessible
from the PTWS web site describe the meeting results,
IOC/INF-1226: Meeting on the Development
of a Sea Level Metadata Web Service Demonstrator Project, IOC/INF-1227: Meeting on the Development of an ODINAFRICA
Sea Level Data Facility.
In April 2005, the
PTWC and IODE collaborated to make available a non-operational display monitor
using data available through the internet. The PTWC, IODE, Pacific Disaster
Center (PDC) and the ITIC are working together to build further capabilities,
including the use of XML schema to describe a minimum set of station metadata,
to support the decode and display of sea level data for tsunami warning
monitoring. This prototype is being development for application within the
ODINAFRICA project, and will intake an XML Schema for sea level stations in order
to efficiently support the continually improving sea level network in coastal
Africa. At the same time, the concepts
and application tools should be entirely and relatively easily transportable to
the greater Indian Ocean, the Pacific, and elsewhere. This project is funded in part through a NOAA
PRIDE grant to PDC and ITIC.
5.2 SEISMIC OBSERVATIONS
In the Pacific Ocean, an Intersessional Working Group on Seismic measurements,
data collection, and exchange has met twice to evaluate the needs of the
Pacific. The ITIC continues to work to
ensure there is good communication with the tsunami warning system
practitioners, the FDSN, the IRIS Global Seismic Network, the USGS, GEOFON,
GEOSCOPE, and other network operators in the Pacific. The ITIC participates to both the Indian
Ocean and Pacific Ocean Seismic Working Groups.
In
Africa, the ITIC is involved in effort with AfricaArray (Penn State University,
University of Witwatersrand, Council of Geoscience South Africa) to develop
capacity for seismic monitoring. These
activities involve the upgrade of seismic stations to equip them with broadband sensors with
digital archiving and for the real-time sharing of this data stream to the
global network supporting tsunami warning earthquake monitoring. At the same time, the ITIC and IOC support
the concepts of AfricaArray to build, through education and advanced degrees,
African expertise in the Earth Sciences.
IRIS GLOBAL SEISMIC NETWORK
The PTWC and ITIC continue to maintain good working
relationships with the IRIS Global Seismic Network which is providing the
critical seismic waveform data for the real-time monitoring of earthquakes
globally with data availability close to 90%.
The ITIC Director was elected for a 3-year term as a
member of the Global Seismic Network Standing Committee
6. TRAINING AND EDUCATION
6.1 ITSU
TRAINING PROGRAMME (ITP) - HAWAII
The ITIC carried
out a ITP-Hawaii training for participants from the Indonesia Meteorological
and Geophysical Agency and the Germany Tsunami Early Warning Project in January
2006. Six participants spent two weeks
learning about the operations of the PTWC, the State and County Emergency
Operations, and about other mitigation efforts supporting tsunamis in Hawaii.
The ITIC plans to
conduct the regular session of the ITP-Hawaii for the Pacific during the 3rd
quarter of the 2006.
6.2
ITSU TRAINING
PROGRAMME (ITP) – INTERNATIONAL
Between 7 and 17 November
2005, the ITIC co-sponsored The
International Training Workshop on Numerical Modeling of Tsunami for Developing
Countries in Southeast Asia, the Pacific, and the Indian Ocean. The workshop is a joint effort between the
International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth’s Interior
(IASPEI) and the International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the
Earth’s Interior (IAVCEI) working group on Subduction Zones Located in
Developing Countries, and the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and
Seismology (PHIVOLCS). During the 10-day
workshop, each participant will be taught how to model tsunami propagation, run
up and inundation. The learning format will involved a series of lectures and
hands-on computer exercises under the supervision of experts on tsunami
modeling.
In 2006, the ITIC is conducting Seismology Trainings
in collaboration with the US Geological Survey in Sri Lanka (3-7 April 2006),
Indonesia (8-17 May 2006), Thailand (15-22 May 2006), and the Maldives (27-31
August 2006); for these, international scientists are used, as well as experts
from the PTWC, GSN, USGS, and other universities. Two participants from Malaysia are
participating to the Indonesia Training.
In conjunction, the ITIC will also conduct Tsunami Warning and
Mitigation 3-day Trainings in Indonesia and Thailand; for these, scientists
from the PTWC, JMA, and IOC Tsunami unit are involved in order to bring their
full experience to benefit the countries directly (and in their home
countries). The Seismology Trainings
are planned for 2007 as well with the USGS.
In July 2006, Ecuador will host seismology and tsunami
modeling training for its scientists.
ITIC has arranged for Christa von Hillebrandt, Director of the Puerto
Seismic Network and Modesto Ortiz of CICESE, Mexico to provide the expert
advice. The ITIC, as funds permit, is
encouraging and seeking to provide travel support for the neighboring countries
of Chile, Peru and Colombia to join the Ecuador training.
In 2006, the ITIC will organize Trainings in Tsunami
Numerical Modeling with the cooperation of the IUGG Tsunami Commission
(IUGG-TC) and its Tsunami Numerical Modeling Experts. See below IUGG-TC report below for more
details.
Upon the request of Member States, the ITIC can
organize and conduct similar trainings for PTWS Member States.
6.3 FUTURE
TRAINING PROGRAMME
In 2006, the ITSU
Training Programme expanded its focus beyond tsunami warning systems to include
specific technical capacity needs such as seismological practices and tsunami
numerical modelling. The ITIC also
continues to support the efforts of the RANET Project to bring time-critical tsunami
warning information to remote communities through a variety of complementary,
sustainable technologies.
The ITIC welcomes
PTWS Member State input into the needs and regquirements for training and the
development of capability in the Pacific
COOPERATION WITH OTHER ORGANIZATIONS
7.
IUGG TSUNAMI COMMISSION
The ITIC is
working with IUGG Tsunami Commission Members to organize and teach course in
tsunami numerical modeling. Two courses
are planned, with sessions of Course I (UNESCO-IOC International
Training Course on Tsunami Numerical Modeling: Course I: Tsunami
Sources and Tsunami Propagation) being taught 8-19 May 2006 in Malaysia and 5-16 June
2006 in Belgium. More information can be
found at
The target audience is the Indian Ocean, however PTWS
Member States have been accepted as participants. Based on the large applicant response just
from the Indian Ocean, the ITIC recognizes that there is a global need and
interest for these Training Courses, and will seek ways in which to conduct
more Sessions.
Course II will concentrate
on tsunami inundation modeling in which tsunami propagation results are
continued on to shore using detailed local bathymetry and topography and be
taught in the 3rd quarter of 2006.
8.
ISDR
The ITIC continued to build collaborative working
relationships with the ISDR PPEW and Communications Liaison for the Indian
Ocean, and has discussed similar activities that can extend into the
Pacific. Currently, the ITIC is working
with the ISDR on the following projects:
1. Media awareness building with Asian Broadcasting
Union and Japan NHK (focus on Indonesia and Thailand, which are also PTWS
members);
2. Participation in ESCAP- ISDR Disaster Preparedness
and Mitigation Meeting, June, 2006
3. Animated computer game on disaster reduction
involving the building of communities and the consequences of design and policy
decisions when natural disasters, such as tsunamis, earthquakes, and volcanic
eruptions, hit.
9.
WDC-SEG/NGDC
The ITIC, using NOAA PRIDE
funding, has purchased the tsunami travel time code used
operationally by the PTWC for inclusion in NGDC tsunami products (online and offline). In turn, the NGDC has produced travel time
maps for a selection of historical tsunamis and placed these plots on its web
site. The URL is
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/seg/hazard/tsu_travel_time.shtml
10.
SOPAC
The
ITIC continues to work collaboratively with the SOPAC Community Risk
Programme. In June 2006, the ITIC is
helping to co-sponsor with SOPAC and NOAA a North Pacific Tsunami Awareness
Workshop in which tsunami readiness and resiliency will be a focus.
The
ITIC supports the SOPAC Draft Strategy from the 5-6 September 2005 meeting, but
wishes to make the following intervention for action:
The
ITIC Director Strongly recommends that SOPAC identifies an actual person that
will be dedicated to advocate and facilitate tsunami mitigation efforts with
SOPAC Member States. It is felt that a
Virtual Centre will not be adequate for sustaining the active, ongoing effort
that is needed.
The
person should be able to work on both the technical aspects concerned with sea
level and seismic monitoring and evaluation and hazard risk assessment and
numerical modelling, and the non-technical aspects of national tsunami response
plans, emergency management, communication, preparedness, education, and
outreach.
As
appropriate, it is recommended that this person spend at least some of the time
at the ITIC and PTWC to understand the processes, protocols, and activities
which build an effective system.
Possible
means of resource mobilization include PTWS Member State secondment, PTWS
Member State funding support to the IOC Trust Fund for such a position, and/or
SOPAC-generated support through the Pacific Island Forum. In this regards, attention is called to the
Commonwealth Secretariat Report for SIDS Early Warning (8-9 August, Barbados,
See Section 3.2.1.c) calling for high-level advocacy and support for the
Pacific in regards to tsunami hazard mitigation and preparedness.
11. ITSU
PUBLICATIONS AND AWARENESS TOOLS
ITIC INFORMATION SERVICES
11.1 LIBRARY
Keeping abreast of
the events surrounding the Earthquake and Tsunami of 26 December 2004,
stretched the limits of the ITIC office and any improvement to the library was
secondary to answering a deluge of e-mail and many information requests coming
from around the world and the preparation of information and awareness
materials for distribution globally.
This was the first global disaster with Internet connectivity and
handling the deluge of inquiries while reviewing, indexing, and entering
reports, books, and stories into the existing database continues to be very
time consuming. The ITIC library’s goal
is to collect and maintain a varied and useful collection of materials for
future researchers. The location and use
of materials to satisfy the many different types of information requests
remains an objective of the collection.
Collection
growth based on donations and one purchase was augmented with web mining and
continued indexing of tsunami newsletters, conference proceedings, and articles
from journals, newspapers and magazines. The database currently contains 6882
records, approximately 800 more records than a year ago
11.2 TSUNAMI
NEWSLETTER
The Tsunami Newsletter
continues to be published quarterly.
During the intersessional period, one Newsletter was published. All issues are available in Adobe PDF-format
at the ITIC web site at http://www.tsunamiwave.info.
During 2006, the ITIC enabled a PTWS web site in similar format and design
to the web sites of the other IOC ICGs. The
PTWS web site URL is http://ioc3.unesco.org/ptws/
The ITIC tsunami
information web site continues to be found at http://www.tsunamiwave.info under the
ITSU banner where ITIC is the Information Resource of IOC ITSU (International
Tsunami).
Later in 2006, the
IOC will enable a global tsunami web site, at which time the contents of the
ITIC and PTWS web sites will be transferred.
11.4 TSUNAMI
BULLETIN BOARD
The ITIC Tsunami
Bulletin Board (TBB), which provides email list serve information to more than
320 members, continued to be used as a reliable means of information sharing by
tsunami professionals. The TBB uses
Lyris ListManager V.7.0 software maintained by the USA NOAA National Weather
Service.
12. TSUNAMI AWARENESS AND EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS
12.1 REVISED
AND CUSTOMIZEABLE INFORMATIONAL PUBLICATIONS
The ITIC has
revised and updated several english-language informational brochures, and has
made these available in an electronic format that provides easy translation and
localization of graphics. Additionally,
hard copies of existing materials are available for distribution upon request.
The electronic files are available for download from the ITIC web site (www.tsunamiwave.info) as both
PDF-format and layered Microsoft Word files in which the text and graphics are
separated into separate objects for manipulation and customization.
Newly revised 2006
editions of the following products are available:
· Great Waves, 2006 edition.
This booklet was revised to include information about
the IOC ICGs
Reference: UNESCO-IOC.
Tsunami. The Great Waves. IOC Information document No. . Paris, UNESCO,
2006
·
Tsunami
Glossary, 2006 edition.
The Glossary was updated to include information on the
recent establishment of global intergovernmental coordination groups for
tsunami warning and mitigation, and to include more modern definition of
terms. Reference: UNESCO-IOC.
Tsunami Glossary. IOC Information
document No. 1221. Paris, UNESCO, 2006.
·
Tsunami
Warning! Reference: UNESCO-IOC. Tsunami Warning!, IOC Information document
No.. Paris, UNESCO, 2005.
·
Tsunami
Safety Posters
English posters (11x17 size) are available. The standard set of information recommended
for inclusion is:
ü
What a tsunami is? How do tsunami act when they come ashore?
ü
What are natural tsunami warning signals?
ü
What should you do when a tsunami warning
is issued?
ü
Where do I find out more tsunami
information (national, local)?
12.2
EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS
In 2006, the Asian
Disaster Reduction Center (ADRC) and the ITIC collaborated on the development
of Grade 4-6 Tsunami Educational Materials for use by teachers in
Thailand. Through a series of
consultative meetings with Thailand government officials and teachers, existing
materials, including those provided by Chile’s textbooks, were adapted in
English and translated into Thai for distriution to teachers along the coasts
of Thailand. Upon finalization, these
materials will be made available on the ITIC web site.
12.3 TSUNAMITEACHER
The ITIC, with
assistance from the Pacific Disaster Center and the aid of a Science Education
Writer have developed the TsunamiTeacher Resources Kit of authoritative and
reliable materials to support tsunami warning and mitigations. The tool is housed as a dynamic electronic
resource available through the web, and as a 2-DVD set of offline
materials. Phase I will be deployed in
mid-May through familiarity trainings in Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, and
Kenya, and broadly distributed in June.
13. CONCLUSION
This report is an overview of what we have been
involved in during the intersessional period regarding the ITIC ICG/PTWS
activities and the ITIC contributions in support of the implementation of
tsunami warning and mitigation systems in the Indian Ocean, north-eastern
Atlantic, Mediterranean, and Caribbean region.
The ITIC and its staff look forward to providing
continued service to the Pacific, and all nations and regions around the world.
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