Operational Users Guide for The Tsunami Warning System
Operational Users Guide for The Tsunami Warning System : The Guide includes a summary of the administrative and operational services and procedures, including monitoring and detection data networks that are used by the warning centres, the criteria for the reporting and issuing of tsunami information messages, samples messages, the recipients of the information, and the methods by which the messages are sent. Background information to assist customers in understanding the products that are issued may also be included. Formerly called the Communications Plan for the TWS. PTWC WC/ATWC AND: Established in 1949, the Richard H. Hagemeyer Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) in Ewa Beach, Hawaii, serves as the warning operations headquarters for the PTWS and works closely with sub-regional and national centres in monito ring and e valuating potentiall y tsunamigenic earthquakes. It provides international warning advisories for teletsunamis to countries in the Pacific, and warnings for Hawaii and US Pacific island interests. PTWC has provided interim services for the Indian Ocean and the wider Caribbean since 2005. Established in 1964, the West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center (WC/ATWC) provides warning services to the continental USA, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and Canada, and serves as a back up to PTWC. (http://www.prh.noaa.gov/ptwc) (http://wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov/)
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