TEMPP 2: Tsunami Inundation Mapping

UNESCO – IOC / NOAA INTERNATIONAL TSUNAMI INFORMATION CENTER (ITIC)

ITIC TRAINING PROGRAMME INTERNATIONAL
PILOT COURSE

ESSENTIAL TSUNAMI PREPAREDNESS: TSUNAMI EVACUATION MAPS, PLANS, AND PROCEDURES (TEMPP)

TEMPP Pilot agendas, course materials, and other reference documents can be downloaded from the IOC at http://ioc-unesco.org/index.php?option=com_oe&task=viewEventRecord&eventID=1803
 

1. EXPERTS MEETING ON EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI HAZARD IN HONDURAS: HISTORICAL EVENTS AND POTENTIAL SOURCES, 29 February - 1 March 2016 Tsunamis can affect Honduras coastlines facing the Pacific Ocean and the Gulf of Honduras and Caribbean Sea. Relatively few tsunami runups have been reported for Honduras over history, thus necessitating the use of scenario events for hazard assessment. The purpose of this expert scientific meeting is to quantify earthquake and tsunami sources for use in tsunami risk reduction projects in Honduras. The identified maximum credible earthquake scenarios will be used by Honduras to conduct tsunami inundation modeling for evacuation mapping of its Pacific and Caribbean coastlines.

Expert Participants:

Dr. Gerard Fryer, Senior Geophysicist, PTWC, USA, Meeting Chair

Dr. Diego Arcas, Scientific Director, NOAA National Center for Tsunami Research (NCTR)

Dr. Eduardo Camacho, Director, Instituto de Geociencias- Universidad de Panama, Panamá

Dr. Juan José Escobar, IHCIT- Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras

Dr. Walter Mooney, US Geological Survey, USA Dr. Emile Okal, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Northwestern University, USA

Dr. Marino Protti, Observatorio Vulcanológico y Sismológico de Costa Rica, Universidad Nacional (OVSICORI-UNA), Costa Rica; Chair, IASPEI Latin America and Caribbean Seismological Commission (LACSC)

Dr. Lidea Elizabeth Torres Bernhard, IHCIT- Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras TEMPP Tsunami Inundation Mapping Participants and Trainers

2. TSUNAMI INUNDATION MAP DEVELOPMENT, 2 - 3 March 2016 The training builds from the July 2015 Tsunami Modeling (ComMIT) training to cover basic composite inundation mapping using QGIS.

Trainers and Facilitators:

Dr. Gerard Fryer, Senior Geophysicist, PTWC, USA, Meeting Chair

Dr. Diego Arcas, Scientific Director, NOAA NCTR

Christopher Moore, Research Scientist, NOAA NCTR

Carolina Hincapié-Cárdenas, Deputy Manager, Caribbean Tsunami Warning Program (CTWP)

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