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Warning sign reading "Tsunami hazard zone"
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Caribbean throws spotlight on "forgotten" tsunami threat

From blowing conch shells to ringing church bells and sending mobile phone alerts, Caribbean countries are looking at high and low-tech ways to alert citizens to run for safety in the face of tsunamis which could wreak havoc on unprepared communities.
Mami Mizutori with five young representatives from the High School Student Summit and Marc McDonald from the AARP Foundation at the Intergenerational Dialogue.
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Building Resilience across Generations: World Tsunami Awareness Day

More than 150 government representatives, members of academia and young participants from the 2019 Japan World Tsunami Awareness Day High School Summit commemorated World Tsunami Awareness Day on 5 November at the United Nations Headquarters, New York and discussed innovative solutions to reduce tsunami risks.
Student teachers visiting the exhibition space at Arahama Elementary School in Sendai, Japan, for World Tsunami Awareness Day
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School for tsunami risk draws crowds

A former elementary school on the coast of Japan has been turned into a centre for raising awareness about tsunami risk. It saved the lives of 320 people who evacuated to its roof top.
Mother and child safe on the top of a Sendai tsunami evacuation tower in today's evacuation exercise
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Sendai responds to tsunami alerts

The Sendai area of Japan which was badly affected by the 2011 tsunami today marked World Tsunami Awareness Day with a major exercise along its vulnerable coastline.
Fumihiko Imamura, Professor of Tsunami Engineering at Tohoko University
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Pollution creates 'black tsunami' risk

Renowned tsunami expert Prof. Fumihiko Imamura uses the occasion of World Tsunami Awareness Day to draw attention to the threat of "black tsunamis" caused by pollution of the seas

2019 World Tsunami Awareness Day

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - New York UNHQ Liaison Office
Permanent Mission of Japan to the United Nations - New York
United Nations Development Programme
Permanent Mission of Indonesia to the United Nations, New York
Permanent Mission of Chile to the United Nations, New York
Permanent Mission of Republic of Maldives to the United Nations, New York
Permanent Mission of Norway to the United Nations, New York
Permanent Mission of Australia to the United Nations, New York
Permanent Mission of Peru to the United Nations, New York
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Limitations and challenges of early warning systems: A case study of the 2018 Palu-Donggala Tsunami

Despite progress in policy measures, early warning and risk information initiatives in Indonesia, the 2018 tsunami of Palu and Donggala showed that significant challenges remain. The study was commissioned by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction

World Tsunami Awareness Day 2019

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
Documents and publications

Global navigation satellite system enhancement for tsunami early warning systems

The demonstrated early warning capability of Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) to accurately, rapidly, and cost effectively measure deformation of the Earth’s surface and the response of the ionosphere to this deformation was the factual basis

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Eight years after Fukushima nuclear accident - Community recovery and reconstruction from nuclear and radiological disasters – a case of Kawauchi village and Tomioka town in Fukushima

On 11 March 2011, the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami severely damaged the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (FDNPP). Large radioactivity released induced multi-hazard disasters on human livelihoods and ecosystems in the Fukushima