Tsunami Warning and Emergency Response, Barbados, July 2019

Regional Training Workshop on Pacific Tsunami Warning Center
Enhanced Tsunami Products for ICG/CARIBE EWS

Christ Church, Barbados
22-26 July 2019

The four-day workshop trained regional response agencies, as well as national tsunami warning focal points (TWFPs), national tsunami warning centers (NTWC), and tsunami emergency responders (TERs), to effectively receive, analyse and take appropriate action in response to the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) enhanced tsunami forecast products for the Caribbean and its adjacent regions. The training workshop covered tsunami warning operations and the use of the PTWC Enhanced Products for tsunami threat decision-making, with specific attention paid on the coordination of a regional response, and the national tsunami warning chain and the related standard operating procedures (SOPs).

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