Agenda

1) 2) 3) 4) Planification Execution Review Proposal for Chilean SOP

Planification
1 month before: Meeting with NDMO to

coordinate actions.
1 week before: PowerPoint presentation to NTWC Director and participants. Instruction to participants, tabletop exercise, designate evaluators ( Oceanography Chief, Director).

1 hour before: briefing to participants, check and control that each participant has a CLEAR idea of what to do during the PacWave exercise.

Execution
Major earthquake with epicenter in Valparaso

(SHOA s location), that will include:

a. Main power failure Generators b. Night time( no Director, no Oceanography chief). c. No fix phone, nearest stations tide gauge inoperative (Valparaso, Quintero and San Antonio). d. No tremors results( saturated).

National Warning System

Pacific-Hawaii Tsunami Warning Center Alaska Tsunami Warning Center United States Geological Survey (N.E.I.C.-U.S.G.S.) National Seismological Network of University of Chile Seismology Service

24 Hours Phone and Radio Service

NATIONAL WARNING SYSTEM OF TIDAL WAVES (S.H.O.A.) EMWIN DART BUOY

National Tide Gauges Network

TREMORS Seismology System

ONEMI
24 Hours Phone and Radio Service S.D.156 INTERIOR DATED MARCH 12 OF 2002
NATIONAL PLAN FOR CIVIL PROTECTION 2002 Governmental Authorities Regional Government Provincial Government Municipalities Comm. Dir. of Emergency Local Systems for Civil protection and emergency Population

MARITIME DOMAIN
Directorate General of Maritime Territory Merchant vessels Maritime Authorities

NAVAL DOMAIN
NAVAL UNITS NAVAL ZONES

Threshold table
Location
Chile & Peru (Local sources).

Parameters
Mw 7.8 & using tsunamigenic zone or PTWC Warning for Chile 7.5 Mw 7.8 & using tsunamigenic zone or PTWC Watch for Chile 5.0 Mw 7.4

Statement
National Warning Tsunami threat

National Watch Tsunami threat

Information Statement

Rest of the Pacific

PTWC Warning & Watch for Chile

National Watch/Warning Tsunami threat

6.5 Mw 7.4

Information Statement

Threshold table
Seismogenic Zone Tsunamigenic Zone

Inminent zone of occurrence of Tsunami Probable zone of occurrence of Tsunami

Execution( indicating exercise)

Actions:

1. Locate the earthquake and evaluate the risk of Tsunami 2. Immediately communicate to NDMO by VHF 3. Communicate to all coast Navy facilities and Navy authorities through VHF 4. Communicate to NDMO and Navy through email, fax and Naval message 5. Publication in the web site( exercise site)

Execution
Actions:

6. Email and fax to Per, Ecuador and Colombia. 7. Calculate arrivals time and repeat 1 to 4 8. Modify information if there were changes in: a. Magnitude b. Location 9. Monitor tide gauges for cancelation 10.Cancelation

Sequence of a Tsunami Warning

Review
Hot Debriefing, involving ALL the participants. a. Results of the evaluators. b. Comments of the NTWC chief. c. Questions, suggestions, comments. Meeting with NDMO to review results and share experiences.

Standard Operational Procedures (SOP) A proposal for Chilean NTWC

Tsunami Forecasting Project

Forecast point
Epicenter Tsunami height 3 m Major tsunami Tsunami height < 3 m Tsunami

DART Buoy deployment by Chilean Navy DART Buoys future status

Detection, warning and dissemination

Tide Station (VAISALA MAWS 110) Two channel communication, two sensors

Densification of tide gages in Tsunamigenic zones

Threshold table
Region
1

Location
Chile & Peru (Local sources).

Parameters
Mw 8.0 & Depth 100 km or PTWC Warning for Chile 7.0 Mw 7.9 & Depth 100 km or PTWC Watch for Chile 6.0 Mw 6.9 & Depth 100 km

Statement
National Warning Tsunami threat level 2 or red warning (Wave amplitude > 3 mts) National Warning Tsunami threat level 1 or yellow warning (Wave amplitude >0.5< 3 mts) Information Statement National Warning Tsunami threat yellow / red warning.

Ecuador & Colombia Central America/Mexico Cascadia SW Pacific (Australia & NZ) Japan Kuriles Islands & Kamchatka Aleutian Islands

Mw 8.0 & Depth 100 km or PTWC Warning/Watch for Chile

PTWC Warning & Watch for Chile

National Warning Tsunami threat yellow / red warning.

Provisional Mw, depth and wave hight.

Information statement
No threat Standard text, only earthquake parameters. One message only.

National Warning level 1 or yellow warning

Potential threat Wave amplitude >0.5 and < than 3 meters Evacuation only in the places near and on the coast line (beaches, rocks, etc). Standby for evacuation to the safe zone( 30 mts).

Several messages
Must be followed up until cancellation

National Warning level 1 or yellow warning

Potential threat Wave amplitude >0.5 and < than 3 meters Evacuation only in the places near and on the coast line (beaches, rocks, etc). Standby for evacuation to the safe zone( 30 mts).

Several messages
Must be followed up until cancellation

National Warning level 2 or red warning

Certain Threat Safe evacuation zone (30 mts above the mean sea level) Several messages

Must be followed up until cancellation

Cancellation
No Threat Minimum after twice the tsunami travel time. Be sure that all possible information sources are taken into account and that enough time passed to give the cancellation message.

Future steps
Direct connection to the seismic sensors. New infrastructure.

Automatic process of the information received and arrival times.