UNESCO/IOC Core Staff for IOTWS and Global Tsunami

Head of the OfficeTony Elliot

(UK, funded by Australia)

Jane Cuneen(funded by Australia)

Rezah Badal(Mauritius, funded by

Australia)

Head of the OfficePeter Kolterman

(Germany, funded by Norway)

M.Yamamoto(seconded from JMA, Japan)

U.Wolf(seconded from Germany)

B.Aliaga(UNESCO/IOC, ICG/CARIBE)

Laura KongHead of the Office

(seconded by NOAA, USA)

Brian Yanagi(seconded by NOAA, USA)

ICG/IOTWS Secretariat

UNESCO/IOC ITIC

TSUNAMI Coordination Unit

Tsunami and Other Coastal Hazards Warning System for the Caribbean Sea

and Adjacent Regions

Gustavo Malavé BuccéVice-Chair

Intergovernmental Oceanographic CommissionReport to the 24th Assembly

Paris, FranceJune 19-29, 2007

Caribbean TWS within a Multi-Hazard Observing and Warning System and a Global

Framework Concept and Design

Held in Bridgetown, Barbados

January 10-12, 2006

70 participants from 26 countries in the Caribbean Region,

6 organizations, and 5 observers

1ST SESSION IOC/ICG CARIBBEAN EWS

•Tsunami and Coastal Inundation Hazard Risk Assessment and Research

•Monitoring and Detection Systems, Warning Guidance

•Warning, Dissemination, and Communication

•Preparedness, Readiness and Resilience

FOUR (4) WORKING GROUPS DURING BARBADOS MEETING

• 16 recommendations of the WG´s adopted by ICG: basis for the action plan (IOCARIBE Meeting: 22 recommendations and estimated budget).

• Develop strong links between the ICG and Regional Hurricane Disaster Bodies.

• Members State to select National Focal Points, evaluate Legal Frame work and establish procedures.

WG´s GENERAL RECOMMENDATIONS

• PTWC currently providing warning guidance to the whole Caribbean region until a Caribbean Tsunami Warning Center is established

INTERIM TWC FOR CARIBBEAN AND ADJACENT REGIONS

•Chair: Trinidad & Tobago (Paul Saunders – ODM)

•Vice-chairs:

Venezuela (Gustavo Malave – FUNVISIS)

USA (Israel Matos – NOAA/NWS)

ELECTION OF CHAIR AND VICE-CHAIRS

Held in Cumaná, Venezuela

March 10-12, 2007

60 participants from 13

countries in the Caribbean

Region, and 3 organizations

2nd SESSION IOC/ICG CARIBBEAN EWS

SEISMIC STATIONS

SEISMIC STATIONS

Dom. Rep

Puerto RicoHaiti

Jamaica

Barbados

TobagoTrinidad

GrenadaSt. Vincent

St. Lucia

Aves Is. Dominica

Turks and Caicos Is.

Cocos Is

Proposed GSN StationsProposed USAID/GOTT/UWI Sub-Net

Various Existing local BB Stations

Proposed Cayman Sub-NetProposed Dutch Antillean Sub-Net

Network Proposed at RSNO Workshop

Guadeloupe

Martinique

Panama

ElSalvador

Costa Rica

Colombia

Belize

Nicaragua

Mexico

Honduras

San Andres Is.

Guatemala

Cayman Is.

Bahamas

Existing GSN Stations

• A meeting of seismic station operators was held in Trinidad and Tobago from April 4-6, 2006. The meeting was attended by representatives of 14 institutions in the region.

• IRIS and the University of Sao Paulo organized the workshop “Managing Waveform Data and Related Metadata from Seismic Networks”. Representatives of every seismic network in the Caribbean attended this meeting from July 10-14, 2006.

• Intermediate Level Earthworm (seismic data exchange platform) was offered by Mr. Angel Rodriguez, USGS Contractor, at the University of Panamá from December 13-16.

SEA LEVEL

No funds were available for an intersessional workshop. Utilizing IOC funds for the ICG preparatory meeting and the vice-chair’s IOCARIBE-GOOS funds, a meeting of significant parties was held immediately prior to (27-28 November, 2006, in San Juan, PR) the ICG2 preparatory meeting.

DART Buoy

TSUNAMI READY: MAYAGUEZ

•Bathymetric charts

•Tsunami Warning Focal Point (TWFP) and Tsunami National Contact (TNC)

•PTWC: draft communications plan for the Caribbean

•Mechanisms to integrate into the CTWS non earthquake sources of tsunami

•Communications alternatives

OTHER ACTIVITIES DURING 2006/2007

Communications Plan for the Interim Advisory Information Service to the Caribbean and

Adjacent Regions

In July, 2006, The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center submitted the Communication Plan requested by ICG/CARIBE-EWS I for the Interim Tsunami Advisory Information Service to the Caribbean Sea and Adjacent Regions.

•Plan was approved

•The Member States will review the preliminary forecasts points that are under a Member State’s jurisdiction and will inform the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center of any modifications.

•The PTWC will carry out regular communication tests among the participants.

A CARIBBEAN TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER

A Caribbean Tsunami Warning Center to be located in the region

REGIONAL WORKSHOPS ON THE CARIBBEAN TSUNAMI WARNING SYSTEM

To organize a series of workshops on the Caribbean Tsunami Warning System for National Tsunami Warning Focal Points (TWFP). The first two workshops to be organized before the end of 2007, including one for English speaking countries and another for Spanish speaking countries.

TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR THE INTERSESSIONAL WORKING GROUPS

WORKSHOP ON STANDARDS FOR TSUNAMI EARLY WARNING SYSTEM FOR THE CARIBBEAN AND

ADJACENT REGIONS

IASPEI-New Manual of Seismological Observatory PracticeThe Manual on Sea Level Measurements and Interpretation

ESTABLISHMENT OF A SEA LEVEL CONSORTIUM

The ICG member states will consider and evaluate before the next ICG meeting the necessity of having a Sea Level Consortium for the Caribbean.

ESTABLISHMENT OF A CARIBBEAN TSUNAMI INFORMATION CENTER

THE CARIBEAN TSUNAMI AND OTHER COASTAL HAZARDS EWS PERMANENT TECHNICAL

SECRETARIAT

BUDGET FOR THE BIENNIAL (2008-2009) FOR THE TSUNAMI AND OTHER COASTAL HAZARDS

WARNING SYSTEM FOR THE CARIBBEAN SEA AND ADJACENT REGIONS

REGIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON TSUNAMI SCIENCE AND SERVICES FOR IMPACT MITIGATION

ICG/CARIBE-EWS II will organize, in coordination with the Regional IOC Subcommission, just prior to the next IOCARIBE X Session, Venezuela (April-May/2008) a scientific symposium under the main theme: “Tsunami in the Caribbean: science and services for impact mitigation”.

• Establish an initial core system for detecting and verifying tsunami with the CARIBE-EWS by the end of 2008.

• Assist member states in the

development of down-stream capacities to provide warning information at the community level.

• Actively plan to take over the full responsibility for the system with a Caribbean Tsunami Warning Center in the region at least by 2010 and thus end with great appreciation the interim coverage provided by PTWC.

Panama will host

III SESSION OF THE IOC/ICG CARIBBEAN EWS

January 2008

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