TOAST documentation

This is the documentation for TOAST version 2025.303#7c0e31926.

Arrival isolines on maps visualize the tsunami propagation.

Maps with forecast zones show the threat levels.

Real-time waveforms provide instantaneous sea-level information and comparison to simulations.

Maps show the maximum wave height across the ocean.

Features and Concepts

• Introduction
  • Features
  • History
  • TOAST architecture
  • Application worldwide
  • Simulation concepts
• Tsunami generation and propagation
• Tsunami simulation plugins
  • On-the-fly simulation
  • Simulation databases

Installation and Configuration

• Installation
  • TOAST installation type
  • Create data directory
  • Install GSM
  • Install packages using GSM
  • Install dependencies
  • Environment variables
  • Install database server
  • Create SeisComP and TOAST databases
  • Create GSS database
  • GPU-based computation
  • Directory/File structure
• Configuration
  • Module configuration
  • Example configuration files
  • Inventory and Bindings
  • Fault geometry configuration
  • Forecast zones configuration
  • Threat level mapping configuration
  • Simulation bathymetry
  • Simulation profiles
  • Bulletins, templates and Live tabs configuration
  • Templates configuration
  • Template variables configuration
  • Live tabs configuration
  • Color profiles and gradients configuration
• TOAST configuration parameters
  • Module Configuration
  • Bindings Parameters
  • Command-Line Options

Interactive Analysis

• Graphical User Interface
  • Overview
    • Test mode
    • Fake time feature
    • Hotkeys
  • Main panel
    • Incident Summary
    • Map perspective
    • Traces perspective
    • Arrivals perspective
    • Waveform picker
    • Displacements perspective
    • Forecast Zones perspective
    • Impact Reports perspective
    • Live Tabs
  • Database panel
    • Incident mode
    • Simulation mode
  • Map Layers panel
    • Color profile
    • Faults
    • Forecast zones
    • Displacements
    • Legends
    • POIs
    • Rupture area
    • Simulation layer
    • Wave propagation
  • Wave Propagation panel
  • Template tree panel
  • Template variables panel
  • Color profiles, gradients and colors
    • Create and modify color profiles
    • Create and modify colors and gradients
  • Task Manager
  • TOAST Client Application Log
  • Global Log
  • Incident Log
• Simulations
  • Automatic simulation profiles and configuration
    • Simulation profiles
  • Start simulation profiles manually
  • Create simulations interactively
    • Rupture settings
    • Simulation backend settings
  • Display simulation results
    • Arrival lines
    • Arrival times
    • Bathymetry
    • Isochrones
    • SSH
    • SSH max
  • Residual
    • Total residual
    • Source residual
    • Distance residual
    • Magnitude residual
    • Depth residual
    • Focal mechanism residual
    • Fault residual
    • Arrival residual
    • Displacement residual
    • Wave radar residual
  • Simulation playback
    • Create playback
    • Run playback

Interacting with SeisComP and Stakeholders

• Import events and create incidents in TOAST
  • Receive events automatically via messaging
  • Import event from a SeisComP database manually
  • Create artificial incident
  • Create artificial event
  • Load incidents from TOAST database
• Create warning bulletins and other output using templates
  • Bulletin templates
  • ClearSilver template syntax
• Import / Export / Create displacements
  • Receive displacements via messaging
  • Import displacement amplitudes from an XML file
  • Create observed displacements manually
  • Export displacements

SeisComP messaging: scmaster

• Message Groups
• Queues
• Scheme
• Database Access
• Access Control

TOAST daemon plugin: toastd

• Queue Configuration
• Processor Configuration
• Template Configuration
• Simulation profiles: backend, parameters and source regions
• Incident Synchronization
• scmaster and toastd configuration parameters
  • Module Configuration
    • toastd plugin
  • Command-Line Options
    • Generic
    • Verbosity
    • Wired

Answers and Terms

• FAQ
  • How to enable/disable gap interpolation for waveform data?
  • How to remove spikes from traces?
• Glossary

Software History

• Change Log